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Chapter 209
To Secretary of Interior
Executive Mansion, October 14, 1861
HON. SEC. OF INTERIOR.
DEAR SIR:—How is this? I supposed I was appointing for register of wills a citizen of this District. Now the commission comes to me "Moses Kelly, of New Hampshire." I do not like this.
Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.