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To His Excellency Newton Cannon
Governor of the State of Tennessee

The undersigned President and Directors of the Columbia
Central Turnpike Road hereby notify your Excellency
that the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of the Stock of the Columbia Central
Turnpike Road - being one half of the Capital
Stock of said Road as the same is enlarged
under the Charter - has been subscribed for -
And that the Stockholders have paid to the Treasur-
-er of the company by order of the Board thirty
per cent upon the amount so subscribed by them-

We hereby desire your Excellency to appoint on
behalf of the State the State Directors and upon
the proper certificates by the entire Board of the
Bond, of the State for the Amount so paid
in agreeably to law - Given under our hands
this the 16th of July 1838 -

[P. R. Booker?] [President?] wit
M. D. Cooper
Lucius J. Polk
G. A. Pillow
J. B. Pillow
James Walker
[illegible] Polk

Directors

Gideon J. Pillow
Will J. Polk