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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to J. W. Douglass, 4 January 1871
Date: January 4, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01594
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January 4, 1871.
J. W. Douglass, Esq.
Act'g Comm'r, Internal Revenue.
Sir:
Your note of this date, stating that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue desires me to sit with him in the hearing of an argument on Saturday next, has been received. I regret to say that the pressure of official business will prevent me from complying with his request.
Very respectfully,
B. H. Bristow, Solicitor General,
and acting Attorney General.
request declined