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Adair Co. Ky.<lb/>
<date when='1865-08-04'>August 4<hi rend='sup'>th</hi>. 1865</date><lb/>
His Excelency Thomas E. Bramlett<lb/>
Governor of the Comonwealth of Kentucky<lb/>
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