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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


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