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16. Your petitioner most respectfully begs, that you will give your kind consideration to his petition, and order his case to be heard as one of resignation instead of dismissal, and that you will be pleased to grant him the pension he has earned, by eleven years of faithful service.
Your Petitioner
is Sir
Your most humble obedient Servant.
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12 July 1889
Jud. Holt.
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