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NARA 555

(No. 30.)

Disbursing Office 
#174 1/2 Fourth St
Louisville May 23’, 1873.

Wm Daniel
Paducah 
Ky

This is to inform you that your claim has been settled, and that a disbursing officer will be at this place until 16th of June and at Cairo Ills 20th of June 1873 at the Custom House for the purpose of paying the amount due you. 

It is important that you shall appear in person PROMPTLY AT THE TIME AND PLACE NAMED.

I inclose you blank form for affidavit of two credible persons as to your identity, which should be executed before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments; if notary public or justice of the peace, the certificate of the clerk of the court that they are so authorized must be presented. 

The money that is to be paid you is all your own, and is not subject to claim or demand, in whole or in part, by any one else. 

This letter, together with any papers in your possession that may aid in establishing your identity, should be shown by you to be the disbursing officer.

A. P. Howe
Brvt Maj Gen USA
Disbursing Officer. 

“Turn”

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