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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to J. W. Douglass, 27 January 1870
Date: January 27, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01174
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January 27, 1870.
Hon. J. W. Douglas,
Acting Commissioner Internal Revenue.
Sir:
The letter of Mr. Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control. I therefore return it, with the suggestion that it might be well to send it to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate or House of Representatives, if the writer is, (as I presume he is,) a gentleman whose statements are entitled to consideration.
Respectfully,
E. R. Hoar,
Attorney General.
(letter enc.)
Official action declined.