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Title: Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 14 August 1871
Date: August 14, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.03170
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Contributors to digital file: Nima Najafi Kianfar, Courtney Rebecca Lawton, and Kenneth M. Price
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Aug. 14, 1871
Hon. Wm. W. Belknap
Secretary of War.
Sir:
In pursuance of the request in your letter of the 11th instant, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico has been directed, both by mail and telegraph, to defend Lieut. Price in the Territorial Court, against the charge of murder.
Yours very respectfully, &c.
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General.
Lieut Price U.S. A. New Mexico.