Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to William Craig, 16 December 1870
Date: December 16, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01551
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December 16, 1870.
Wm. Craigh, Esq.
Memphis, Tenn.
Sir:
You are hereby appointed an assistant to the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee during the present term of the U. S. Court, with a compensation at the rate of Five hundred dollars per month.
You will please transmit to this Department, with the acceptance of this appointment, a copy of your official oath.
Very respectfully,
B. H. Bristow, Solicitor General
and Acting Attorney General.
ass't U. S. Attorney W. Tenn.