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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to Barbour Lewis, 16 December 1870
Date: December 16, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01552
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December 16, 1870.
Barbour Lewis, 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 Two hundred and fifty dollars per month.
You will please transmit to this Department, a copy of your official oath.
Very respectfully,
B. H. Bristow
Solicitor General, & Acting Attorney Gen'l.
Ass't U. S. Attorney W. Tenn.