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Sacramento City
Feby [February] 3^rd 1851

Rev^nd J. A. Benton

Dear Brother

The undersigned ap-
= pointed [appointed] a Committee by the first Ecclesiastical
Church and Eccl. [Ecclesiastical] Society of Sacramento City, to Confer with
You, in relation to Your permanent location as
Pastor of Sensi Church and Society, take pleasure
in inviting You to become the Pastor of the Church
over whose interests You have watched with so
much Solicitude, and we unanimously and
earnestly request Your acceptance of that im-
=portant [important] trust, which we assure You will be
a Source of great gratification to the Society.

Should You accept the invitation hereby tendered
we propose in behalf of the Society to Secure to You
the payment of Thirty Six [Thirty-six] hundred Dollars
per Annum, of which Sum the use of the parsonage shall
be estimated at Six hundred Dollars.

Your affectionate Brethren,

{A. D. Carpenter
A. C. Sweetser [Albion C. Sweetser]
J. W. Hinks} Comm [Committee] of the Church
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{W. C. Waters [W. C. Walters]
James C. Zabriskie} Comm [Committee] of the Society