LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 13 September 1861. One page, 103 x 84mm. (4 1/16 x 3 5/16), cut round and neatly mounted to an album leaf. Regarding a judicial appointment for the territory of New Mexico, Lincoln refers to the interim Attorney General, Titian J. Coffey: "If the Attorney General knows no reason, official or otherwise, to the contrary, let the appointment of Marshal of New Mexico be made as within recommended...."

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, n.p. [Washington, D.C.], 13 September 1861. One page, 103 x 84mm. (4 1/16 x 3 5/16), cut round and neatly mounted to an album leaf. Regarding a judicial appointment for the territory of New Mexico, Lincoln refers to the interim Attorney General, Titian J. Coffey: "If the Attorney General knows no reason, official or otherwise, to the contrary, let the appointment of Marshal of New Mexico be made as within recommended...."