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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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Major General Butler [January 18, 1864]

Fort-Monroe.

Gov. Pierpoint has been, from the first, a zealous and efficient supporter of the government. He now understands that you have ordered all the municipal officers of Norfolk and Portsmouth to report to you in detail the amounts of all money received by them, &c. and also that your have constituted a commission to investigate the condition of the Savings Funds and Banking institutions there; and he, as Governor, feels agrieved by these measures. The President directs me to request you to suspend these measures, until

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you can state to him, in writing or otherwise, your views of the necessity or propriety of them. EDWIN M STANTON

Sec of War

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