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Title: W. F. Peddrick to A. A. Shissler, 26 August 1871
Date: August 26, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.02436
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Aug. 26, 1871.
A. A. Shissler, Esq. Member State
Central Com'ee of Pennsylvania,
Third Auditor's Office,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: I am directed by the Attorney General to say, in answer to yours of the 25th instant, that Pennsylvanians in his Department will be allowed at the ensuing election sufficient time to go home, vote, and return.
Very respectfully,&c
W. F. Peddrick,
Act'g Chief Clerk
Going to Penn. to vote
p.130—(see p. 119