Resolution of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Selkirk

Resolution of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Selkirk

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Selkirk

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1865-05-11

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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), 340.

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), 446.

Resolution of the provost, magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Selkirk.

To the President of the United States of America:

We, the provost, magistrates and town council of the royal burgh of Selkirk, for ourselves, and as representing the community of the said burgh, beg to express our feelings of abhorrence in regard to the assassination of President Lincoln, and our sympathy with the American people under the loss they have sustained by the sudden and violent death of the head of their government.

Signed by the magistrates, by authority of the town council, and the seal of the burgh affixed, this 11th day of May, 1865.

[seal.]

JOHN JOHNSTON,
Provost.

THOMAS DALYLEISH,
Bailie.

GEORGE LEWIS,
Bailie.

JAMES MILLAR,
Dean of Guild.

BASIL HENDERSIN,
Treasurer.

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