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Letter from Jeremiah Black to Jacob Thompson

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November 2, 1858
United States Attorney General Jeremiah Sullivan Black writes to Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, with a legal opinion on the question of whether widows of officers and soldiers could receive a government pension if they remarry. "Upon the whole it is clear," as Black concludes, that the relevant legislation "[does] not authorize the payment of a pension to a woman while she is married." Transcript included.
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I-BeachW-1974-1
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Gift of Walter E. Beach