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The Acting Secretary of the Interior will transmit to me a protempore commission for the appointment of Levi Bashford, of Wisconsin, to be Surveyor General of the U.S. for the Territory of Arizona. A. LINCOLN
[1] ES, DNA NR RG 48, Applications, Surveyor General, Arizona, Box 1261. Lincoln's endorsement is on a letter from William T. Otto, May 26, 1863, submitting recommendations of Levi Bashford. Bashford's appointment was finally tabled by the Senate on July 4, 1864. He is listed as surveyor general, however, in the U.S. Official Register for 1863.