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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF  THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] 

United States Internal Revenue
Collector's Office, 1st District Ky.
Paducah   18

Instead of that being the grounds of mistrust in many cases it has in fact been the means of allowing some, yea, many of your predecessors acts which were improper to pass unnoticed, and that it will not be advisable for him or his friends to rely on the assumed ignorance of claimants for protection much longer 
   
On this connection I desire to make inquiry about the following claims in addition to the one referred to in my letter of yesterday viz
   
Mary Jane Wright Widow of Peter Wright late Private Co K 8th Heavy Cold Artillery Certificate # 570,273 for $228.55 issued 8th October 1870
  
Henry Hill late Private Co G 8th Heavy Artillery Cold Certificate # 576793 - issued