Letter from Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy to the Superintendent of the U. S. Mint

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In this letter, the Navy Department asks for the assistance of the United States Mint in designing the Medal of Honor, which was recently created by an act of Congress.

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Dear 30 186s
streent ad gelongreas - a copy
of which is enclosed. - authoriges the
Scentary of the clay le have two
hundred medals of honer prepared,
will suitable embless and decress
to be bestowed oneuch petly officies
seamer andmarenes as shallmost
Qustinguish themselves by their
gallantry w action it VC during the present
war, and appropriates f 2000, for the
purpose,
In earying out the object express
ed, the Department would be slad
to have your assistance, your experience
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