Letters Relating to the Efforts to Impeach Governor Harrison Reed During the Reconstruction Era

Tallahassee May 4, 1872

His Excellency Harrison Reed
Governor of the State of Florida -

You are hereby notified that
by the action of the Hon. the Senate of
this state on this day you were declared acquitted
and discharged of all and singular
the Impeachment heretofore pending against you -
I have the honor to be very
respectfully your obt servt
E.M. Randall
Chief Justice and president
of the Senate for the purpose
of the trial of Impeachment