Letter
Franklin Pierce to Thomas S. McCoy, December 26, 1855
[504] *The President to Mr. McCoy, district attorney.
Executive Mansion, December 26, 1855.
Thomas S. McCoy, Esq., United States District Attorney, New Orleans, Louisiana:
Your letter of the 18th instant, addressed to the Attorney-General, has been submitted to me. Your call upon the collector is fully approved. Continue to act in the premises with the utmost energy and vigilance. You are hereby empowered to exercise all such authority in this relation over the public force as the President may lawfully delegate by virtue of the eighth section of the act of Congress of April 20, 1818.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.