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The Attorney-General will please make out a pardon, according to the within petition of the Judges who tried the case, and others.
June. 11. 1862. A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 419. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a petition for pardon of Josephus M. Clark, May 28, 1862, signed by Judge Samuel H. Treat and others. Although a minor and afflicted with ``an affection of the head,'' Clark had been sentenced to ten years for opening letters.