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[Pottawattamie HC Conf min LR 1764 24 / Pott HC Conf Min LR 1764 24 Fd 3 / LR 1764 24_f0003_Page_21 ]

Judge Carlton Sir
                As Mr Townsend has not come
to attend to the organizing of Potawatamie
County therefore according to your instruction
we notify you be letter, recommending J. D. Parker

Esq as a proper man for that office.. He will be on
to meet you at the court in Polk County .. We shall
make out his bonds in form & signers and you can
insert the amount &c..     S D