Treasury Department.
	     Solicitor’s Office.

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Extract from letter of 
Chief of Div. to C.W. Hall
Esq. W.S. Atty, East’n
Dist of Tenn. dates
May 15, 1866 –

"  The Division has an
operative in Memphis,
Tenn, who will render
you any assistance in
his power   , in the detection
and arrest of persons en-
gaged in making or cir-
culating Counterfeits of
the Natl currency."
	(Sqd)  Wm P. Wood
		Chf of S.S. Div.

[Written sideways on left-hand side of Scan 1]

True copy C.W. Kimball, clerk

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