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Title: Amos T. Akerman to W. W. Belknap, 30 August 1871
Date: August 30, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.03308
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Aug. 30, 1871.
Hon. W. W. Belknap,
Secretary of War.
Sir: Your letter of the 29th inst. enclosing papers pertaining to a claim by E.[J?]. Rowland, supposed to be fraudulent, has been received—and I have the honor to inform you that I have transmitted the papers to the District Attorney of the Northern District of New York, in which the offence seems to have been perpetrated, with instructions to institute a prosecution.
Very respectfully,
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General.
fraud of E.[J?]. Rowland
No. N. Y.