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Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 July 1816

Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas

Treasury Department
Revenue Office July 10th. 1816.

Sir,

Ebenezer Otis, late Keeper of the whitehead Light House, having died, Charles Haskell appears, from the enclosed letter, to be properly qualified as his successor. I am, very respectfully

Sam. Smith

Commissioner of the Revenue

RC (DNA: RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). Docketed by Dallas: “Respectfully submitted to the President” on 13 July 1816; and by JM: “The appt. of Chs. Haskell approvd.” Enclosure not found.

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    Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 July 1816
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    Dallas, Alexander James
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    10 July 1816

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    “Samuel Harrison Smith to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 July 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0186. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 185.]

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