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HOLT, JOSEPH

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HOLT, JOSEPH
(1807 - 1894) Union Judge Advocate General empowered to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, tried Fitz-John Porter and the Lincoln assassins. A.L.S. ""J. Holt"" 2pp. 4to., Washington, Sept. 15, 1860, in part: ""àshould the 'Great Eastern' re-enter the Chesapeake Bay and sail as contemplated from Norfolk for Milford Haven, this department will forward by her such foreign mails as would naturally and properly dispatched from that pointàAs the 'Great Eastern' is an English ship, the conveyance of the mails by her could not be authorized on the same terms conceded to 'steamships covered by the flag of the U. States'. The existing law fixes the sea postage on that measureà"". Very good.