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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0372 MG4-348 to MG4-349

New York City, New York County, New York New York City, New York County, New York 1862-02-28 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 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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JOHN BISSEL,

Commissioner to take testimony and acknowledgments for all the States in the Union: appointed by the Governors thereof.

NOTARY PUBLIC, 11 Wall-st., (Mortimer Building,) NEW YORK.

28th February 1862 Hon J W Tate Sir

Yours of Oct 15th respecting a renewal of my commission as Commissioner of Deeds &c for Kentucky was duly received, & would have been answered sooner but for the fact that so little business in the line of these appointments has been doing for the last year that I felt reluctant to spare from my limited means -- the trifling fee required on such renewal. For Kentucky I have done nothing for months, & the prospect for future business is gloomy in the extreme -- & still I desire to retain the power & authority confered by the appointment in hope that in future it may be made available to the citizens of each state & therefore now enclose you the

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fee & respectfully solicit a renewal of the office

Your obt svt John Bissell

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New York

Comr of Deeds Jno. Bissell City

AppdFebMar. 5th 1862