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6042. OFFICE, Appointment to.—[further continued] .

I am thankful at all
times for information on the subject of appointments,
even when it comes too late to be
used. It is more difficult and more painful
than all the other duties of my office, and one
in which I am sufficiently conscious that involuntary
error must often be committed.—
To Joseph B. Varnum. Washington ed. v, 223.
(W. 1807)