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Boston April 10^th 1849

To/
His Excellency
Neil S. Brown
Governor of Tennessee

Sir,
I respectfully ask to be
appointed Commissioner of Tennessee resident
in Massachussetts to take depositions and the
acknowledgment of deeds &c to be used or
recorded in Tennessee.

For evidence of qualifications I
refer to my father Hon. James T. Austin
late Att^y Gen. of Massachussetts and to the
facts that I am a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Suffolk and hold the ap
pointment of Commissioner from the States
of [?], New Hampshire, New York
Connecticut, North Carolina, Mississippi
Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, & Ohio.

Respectfully
Your Obd^t Servt
Ivers J. Austin