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His Excellency
Charles Clark
Gov & c

We the undersigned respectfully recommend ^the^ Hon James R.Bowles of Lafayette County as a suitable & proper son to visit the Prisons of the United States for the purpose indicated in act of the Legislature ofat the present session authorizing the appointment of commissioners to visit said Prisons

Hamilton Mayson
Senator for Marion &c

P. C, Quin Senator
Jere L. Davis Senator
J. T. Griffin
C A Taylor
Joseph Drake Senator
Isom Carroll
Jones S Hamilton
Jas. B. M^cRae
Jno M Simonton Senator [?]
H. Vaughan
G. D. Moon
B M Bradford
Robert Loury
L I Terry
W^m S Patton
W Q Poindexter
A W Brier
H Thrash

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W. Terger
O A Luckett
Peter Loper
E R Brown Senator