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The joint [illegible] Committee appointed
to wait upon his Excellency James C.
Jones, Governor of the State of Tennessee
and inform him that the two [illegible]
of the General Assembly, are ready
to receive any communication he
may desire to make, Beg leave respectfully to

Repeat that they have performed
that duty, and that they received
for [illegible] that he would trans-
mit a message in writing to mor-
row morning at 10 o'clock

W. Ledbetter [illegible]
the part of the [illegible].

Jno H Dew Ch. of the
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