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- GLC#
- GLC00720.05-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 15 March 1865
- Author/Creator
- Wood, John, fl. 1865
- Title
- [Partially-printed appointment of A.B. Olin as commissioner to examine Edwin M. Stanton as a witness for the defense in Benjamin v. Murray and Perkins.]
- Place Written
- Brooklyn, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Stamped as pages 99-101, with paper seal on first page (p.99).
Signed by John Wood as clerk of the New York Supreme Court. With clerical signatures of New York Supreme Court Justice John A. Lott and Murray's attorneys Vail & Sedgwick as witnesses. Includes printed "Directions for Executing the Commission" and "Instructions to Commissioners." Page 100, partially printed, includes instructions to return the executed commission by mail to Vail and Sedgwick and a note, possibly signed by Olin, that "The execution of this commission appears in certain schedules hereunto annexed."
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