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United Staes op America, ) 

 State and City of Neio York, ) ' 



Be it known to all to whom these presents shall come, that on this 

 21st day of January, A. D. 1856, before me, John L. Sutherland, 

 a notary puhlic of said city and State, by lav/ful authority duly com- 

 missioned and sworn, and by law authorized to take and receive and 

 certify the acknowledgment of letters of attorney as aforesaid, person- 

 ally appeared Philo S. Sheltou, Esq., merchant of the city of Boston, 

 State of Massachusetts, the constituent in said letter of attorney named, 

 of whose identity I am satisfied, and voluntarily acknowledged that he 

 signed, sealed, and delivered said letter of attorney to said Henry Shel- 

 ton Sanford, Esq., as his voluntary act and deed, for the uses and pur- 

 poses therein expressed, and desired me to authenticate and certify the 

 same according to law. 



Witness my hand and official seal, as notary public aforesaid, at my 



r^^T^AT ^ office in the city of New York this 21st day of January, A. 

 [SEAL.J j^ -^g5p^_ 



JOHN LANSma SUTHERLAND, 



Notary Public. 



State of Massachusetts, } 



County of Suffolk, City of Boston, \ ^^' 



To all to whom these presents shall come: I, Charles B. F. Adams, 

 a notary public, duly commissioned and sworn in and for the county 

 aforesaid, and practicing therein, do hereby certify that on the day of 

 the date hereof before me personally came George R. Sampson and 

 Lewis W. Tappan, they being to me personally well known, and 

 severally acknowledged the foregoing letter of attorney, by them sub- 

 scribed in my presence, to be their free act and deed for the uses and 

 purposes therein set forth. 



hEAL 1 Witness my hand and official seal, this twenty-fourth day of 

 '-'' ■-' January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. 



CHARLES B. F. ADAMS, 



Notary Puhlic. 



Mr. Sanford to 3Ir Marcy. 



38 Clinton Place, New York, 



■ February 12, 1856. . 

 Dear Sir : In acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 6th 

 instant, it is due to myself to rectify your misapprehension that mine 

 of the 1st — to which yours was a reply — manifested a '^ desire" that 

 my letter to the Persident should be communicated to Mr. Eames. 

 For several reasons I supposed they would be, but I was entirely in- 

 different on that point. In that letter I merely noticed the circum- 

 stance that your previous communication to me of the 25th ultimo did 

 not refer to those letters, and mentioned only those from me to the 

 department of the 12th and 16th ultimo as intended to be copied and 



