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Will the Attorney General please make out the proper document remitting the remainder of the imprisonment in this case, letting the pecuniary punishment stand. A. LINCOLN
May 2. 1863
[1] AES, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 471. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Montgomery Blair and Gideon Welles May 1, 1863,
asking that William Wormley and William Ringgold, sentenced in the District of Columbia Criminal Court on May 1, 1863, to fifty dollar fines and ten days in jail, be released from the remainder of the jail sentence.