Motion of the Magistrates and Town Council of Pollokshaws

Motion of the Magistrates and Town Council of Pollokshaws

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Magistrates and Town Council of Pollokshaws

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Entry 177: Foreign Messages on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), 315.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 413.

At Pollokshaws, and within the council chamber there, on Friday, the 5th day of May, 1865:

At a meeting of the magistrates and town council of the Burgh of Pollokshaws— present, Provost Austin, Bailie King, Treasurer, Nicol, Counsellors Watson, Baird, McIntire, Mackay. Brownlee, and Steel—the provost in the chair—Provost Austin moved that the magistrates and town council express their sympathy with the community of the United States of America, and especially with Mrs. Lincoln and her family, on the melancholy bereavement they have sustained through the assassination of the late President of those States.

This motion was seconded by Bailie King, and unanimously agreed to, and the clerk was instructed to forward to the American minister in London a copy of this minute.

In respect wherof:
WILLIAM AUSTIN,
Provost.

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy,
JOHN KENART,
Town Clerk.

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