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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to Hamilton Fish, 24 December 1870
Date: December 24, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01572
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December 24, 1870.
Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State.
Sir:
I am directed by the President to request you to issue a Commission appointing Michael Shaughenessey to the Office of Marshal of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, agreeably to the enclosed resolution of the Senate.
Very Resp'lly, B. H. Bristow, S. G. and A. A.G.
commission Michael Shaughenessey U. S. Marshal Miss.