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Hon Beriah Magoffin<lb/>
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<p corresp='TTP35091634P1' xml:id='OTP35091634P1'>Accept, My Dear, Governor, my thanks for the prompt appointment of me, a notory as requested. The documents are safe to hand and in the right time for some work I had to do under the Commision.
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<p corresp='TTP35091634P2' xml:id='OTP35091634P2'>One more faver My Dear Governor, I have to ask of you, It is that you may find it consistent with your feelings to speedily give a parden to Hauserman, He is an old man and is not guilty of larceny, though convicted for it, All the
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