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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 18, 2024.
Messrs Browning & Bushnell Springfield,
Gentlemen March 28. 1851
Your letter is received. I have made the arrangement to use the Hoyt evidence2Jump to section in the other cases.
The new Act of Congress provides that all cases begun here shall
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be tried here, & not go to Chicago at all. All our Patent cases were begun here.
It also fixes the summer term here in July,3Jump to section instead of June as heretofore. So no trouble is created in our Patent cases by the new law. In haste Yours as ever A. LINCOLN