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- GLC#
- GLC00043.21-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 16, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Presidential pardon of Rasmus Benson who in Maryland in September 1862 was convicted of inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on a seaman].
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket : Height: 42 cm, Width: 27 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Pardoned by Abraham Lincoln because Benson had been imprisoned for failure to pay the fine, because Benson's offense against the Criminalizing Mutiny on the High Seas Act (March 3, 1835, c. 40, sec. 1 and 2) was of a technical nature, and because the U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case had petitioned on his behalf. Countersigned by William H. Seward.
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