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6165. OFFICE-HOLDERS, Recommendations.—[further continued].

We want an attorney
and marshal for the Western [Virginia] district.
* * * Pray recommend [persons] to me; and let them be the most respectable
and unexceptionable possible, and especially
let them be republicans.—
To A. Stuart. Washington ed. iv, 393. Ford ed., viii, 46.
(M. April. 1801)