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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-003-0102 BR5-171 to BR5-172

Washington, District of Columbia Washington, District of Columbia 1865-04-03 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Office of Kentucky State Agency Washington D. C. April 3d 1865 Sir

The Legislature of Kentucky at its recent session passed an Act directing this Office to prepare the Kentucky state account for examination in Your Office.

You informed me in November last that before the account would be taken up for settlement the proper abstracts and classifications of the vouchers would have to be made. Your letters I submitted through the Governor of the State to the Legislature of Ky. upon which the act above alluded to, was based.

The Governor writes me under date of March 29th in reply to my letter to him for instructions on this subject he says "I understand from the Qr. Mr. Genl (of the state) that no abstracts are necessary beyond those sent from his Office, and that all the evidence required has to be gotten up here (in Frankfort) and not in Washington. There will therefore be no necessity for the services required by

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the 9th section of the Act &c."

The 9th section alluded to required me to make the abstracts and prepare the account for settlement.

I have the honor now to request of you a specific statement of what is required to prepare the Kentucky state account for examination in Your Office and whether the account will be examined until it is thus prepared? and whether your requirements can be complied with in the absence of the vouchers?

I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt (Sgd) C. D. Pennebaker Agt State of Ky

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