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Paris Tenn 19th Feby. 1828

Your Excellency:

The Attorney General for
this district has given notice of his in=
=tention to resign. I should be extremely
happy if you could conceive it to be
consistent with your duty to give me
the pro. tem. appointment. I should
be too proud to solicit the office of
your Excellency did not necessity com=
=pel me. I have entirely exhausted my
small patrimony in preparing myself
for the bar, and without some assis=
=tance it may be impossible for me
to arrive at that standing, without
the losse of which no man should
practice law. Inclosed is a letter
from the honble Jno C. Hamilton.

With respect yrs &c

Samuel M. Hankins