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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to Connally Findlay Trigg, 25 October 1871
Date: October 25, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.02534
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Oct. 25, 1871.
Hon. C. F. Trigg,
U. S. District Judge,
Nashville, Tenn.
Sir:
I have the honor to enclose herewith a commission appointing William Spence, Esq. to the office of Marshal of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee.
I will thank you to hand the Commission to Mr. Spence when he shall have taken the oath, and given bond, as required by law.
Very respectfully,
B. H. Bristow, Solicitor Gen'l,
& Acting Attorney Gen'l.
Commission