Joseph Smith Letter 30 October 1852
Bureau of Yards & Docks
30 October 1852
Captain,
Please have made for the Bureau, as early as practicable, a plan on trace paper of Fort Norfolk, showing the fence and wharf, and the site for the Keepers House, with the Powder Magazine, and it's various internal details, showing the various dimensions thereof, and state also the maximum space occupied by a barrel of powder; also a trace plan of the Hospital grounds and present Magazine grounds, showing the part claimed by the heirs of Miles King, with the courses and distances of the boundary lines of the whole premises each point marked for reference by letters, or otherwise, to obtain the jurisdiction thereof.
Respectfully,
yr ob st,
Jos Smith
Capt. S. L. Breese
Norfolk
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Source of Information
National Archives, Record Group 71 Records of the Bureau of Yards and Docks
Records of the Office of the Chief of Bureau, 1820 - 1946.
Letters Sent 1842 - 95
Vol. 07 of 104, PI-10, E. 1
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