RESOLUTION TO ACCEPTING A PAINTING

February 11, 1878

Washington D.C.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

In compliance with the resolution of Congress entitled “Joint resolution accepting a painting* tendered to Congress by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson,” approved by me on the 1^st instant, I have this day caused a copy of the resolution to be delivered to Mrs. Thompson.

* Carpenter’s painting of President Lincoln and his Cabinet at the time of his first reading of the Proclamation of Emancipation.