Resolution of the Commissioners of Supply of Roxburg

Resolution of the Commissioners of Supply of Roxburg

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Commissioners of Supply of Roxburg

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

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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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), 327.

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), 429.

Excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of commissioners of supply of the county of Roxburg, held at Jedburg, the 1st day of May, 1865.

The commissioners of supply of the county of Roxburg, at their meeting held this day, unanimously resolved to record their heartfelt indignation at the atrocious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, and the attempt to assassinate Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State. They feel assured that throughout the whole of the States, as in every civilized country, the sad event will be equally deplored, and they desire by this resolution to intimate their deep sympathy and condolence to the people of the States, and to Mrs. Lincoln, under the heavy bereavement which this disgraceful crime has occasioned.

That this resolution be signed by the chairman, on their behalf, and thereafter transmitted to the American minister in London, with a request that the same may be communicated to the people in the States, and to Mrs. Lincoln, in such a way as he may think proper.

WILL. OLIVER RUTHERFORD,
 Chairman.

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