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�[State seal] State of Maine.

Attorney General's Office [printed letterhead]

Portland, July 21, 1862

My Dear Governor, [underlined]

I am credibly informed and believe that the Capt. and 1st Lieut elect of Company B in Falmouth are secessionists [underlined] and were elected on their pledge to resist a draft, [3 words underlined] and that they and their friends actually threatened at the time of the election to resist by face[word crossed out] force any measures looking towards a draft.

The Capt's name is Lorenzo Mumfort[?] and the Lieut's Ebenezer L. Huston. The Union men in that Company feel badly about it & will pay fines rather than do any duty under them.

They want the Commissions of these fellows withheld and the subordinates commissioned