Proclamation by the Governor
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Executive Department

Whereas The President and Cashier of the Commerical Bank of Ky have certified to me that the stockholders of said Bank at a ^regular^ meeting held at their Banking House in Paducah on the 4^th day of May 1865, by resolutions unanimously adopted, accepted the provisions of the act of the General Assembly, "An act for the benefit of the Incorporated Banks of Issue of Kentucky," approved 22^nd February 1865 as an amendment of the Charter of said Bank,

Now, therefore, I. Thomas E. Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 6 of said act, do proclaim and make known that the Commerical Bank of Kentucky has ceased to be a Bank of Issue for the period of three years from and after the 16^th day of May 1865, and that after ninety days from this date the Notes and Bills of the Commercial Bank of Ky shall no longer circulate as money or currency.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set

my hand, and caused
the seal of the Commonwealth
to be affixed.
Done at Frankfort
this the 16^th day of May AD 1865. and in
the 73^rd year of the Commonwealth.

{Seal}Thos E Bramlette
By the Governor
E. L. VanWinkle
Secty of State

By
Jas R. Page
Asst Secty

Proclamation
Commercial Bank
issued 16^th May 1865

Publish 10 days &
send bill to Bank
for collection