Local Board of Health of Balsall Heath, May 3, 1865

Local Board of Health of Balsall Heath

Resolution passed at a meeting held by the Local Board of Health of Balsall Heath.

At a meeting of the Local Board of Health for the district of Balsall Heath, near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, held at their offices in Vincent street, Balsall Heath, aforesaid, on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1865, it was

Unanimously resolved, That this board desires to express its deepest sympathy with the government of the United States of America, and Mrs. Lincoln, in the bereavement which both have sustained by the lamented death of the late President, and to record its horror and detestation of the crime which has caused so great a national loss.