Resurrecting the First American West

James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, from whom these presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that Thomas Arnold Esquire, whose name is subscribed [?] the instrument of writing hereto annexed was at the time of subscribing the same clerk of the Paris district court, and that John Allen Esq. was at the same time one of the Judges of the said court, they having been [?] and commissioned, and full faith is and ought to be given certificates and other official acts.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the State to be affixed, at Frankfort, on the 20th day of June in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and three.

James Garrard By the Governor, Harry Toulmin Secretary