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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1833-05-07'>Tuesday,
  May 7, 1833.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed postmaster at New Salem by President
  Jackson. Lincoln, avowed supporter of Whig Leader Henry Clay, receives
  appointment from Democratic administration because, Lincoln states, office is
  "too insignificant to make his politics an objection." Nelson Alley and
  Alexander Ferguson sign Lincoln's $500 bond.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;<title>Bulletin</title>, No.
  31.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes a receipt for fees for Richard
  Larimore and signs Larimore's name: "Received of John Close two dollars and
  fifty cents being the amount of fees due me for attendance as a witness in a
  suit in the Sangamon Circuit Court" 
  <name type='case' key='L04874'>Close v. Ritter</name>.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-05-23'>Thursday, May 23, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, on a printed form, a summons in <name type='case' key='L05903'>Alley v. Duncan</name>, a case before justice of peace
            Bowling Green. Green signs the summons.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>