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Joseph Smith Letter 13 December 1852

Bureau of Yards & Docks
13th Decr, 1852

Captain,
Your letter of the 11th inst. has been received.
The papers to which you refer as having been, sent up to the Bureau under date of 2nd December 1850, having reference to the Hospital and Magazine grounds, were submitted to the Secretary of the Navy & by him forwarded in February 1851 to the District Attorney W. J. Joynes Esqr. at whose office you will doubtless be able to obtain the information desired by Mr. Brown in his preparation of the plan of the grounds referred to.

Respectfully,
yr obt svt,
Jos Smith

Capt. Saml L. Breese
Norfolk

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Records of the Office of the Chief of Bureau, 1820 - 1946.

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