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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to Columbus Delano, 4 January 1871

Date: January 4, 1871

Whitman Archive ID: nar.01604

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January 4, 1871.

Hon. C. Delano,

Secretary of the Interior.

Sir:

I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the papers in the matter of the suspended entry of certain lands at the Booneville office, Missouri, by Platt H. Cox, transmitted to the Attorney General by your letter of the 16th ultimo.

I have the honor to be, &c.

B. H. Bristow, Solicitor General,

and acting Attorney General.


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