Municipal Council of Pollokshaws
At Pollokshaws, and within the council chamber there, on Friday, the 5th day of May, 1865:
At a meeting of the magistrates and town council of the Burgh of Pollokshaws— present, Provost Austin, Bailie King, Treasurer, Nicol, Counsellors Watson, Baird, McIntire, Mackay. Brownlee, and Steel—the provost in the chair—Provost Austin moved that the magistrates and town council express their sympathy with the community of the United States of America, and especially with Mrs. Lincoln and her family, on the melancholy bereavement they have sustained through the assassination of the late President of those States.
This motion was seconded by Bailie King, and unanimously agreed to, and the clerk was instructed to forward to the American minister in London a copy of this minute.
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy,