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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to George S. Boutwell, 20 December 1870
Date: December 20, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01559
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December 20, 1870.
Hon. Geo. Boutwell,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th inst., and to inform you that I have directed the Attorney of the U. S. at St. Louis to at once comply with the regulations of your Department by furnishing a list of the furniture now in his office, to the Surveyor of customs.
Very respectfully &c
B. H. Bristow, Solicitor General
and Acting Attorney General.
letters &c. acknowledged