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Names of persons recommended as suitable to act as "Registers and Inspectors of Elections" in Franklin Co. N.C. under the Act of Congress, entitled "An act supplemental to an act entitled to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States" passed Mch 2/67 and to facilitate restoration.

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Name | Age | Occupation | Where born | Resided in the County | Been in the Mil Service of the US | Remarks

Robt H Timberlake | 42 yrs | Physician & farmer | Franklin Co | All his life | no | Appointed a magistrate under Gov W W. Holden

Silas M Stone | 36 yrs | Farmer | Franklin Co | Last 9 years | no | Rebel Conscript, lost his leg at Gettysburg. Was Engrossing Clerk of N.C. Legislature in 1866-7.

Hilliard Dunston | 34 yrs | Rock Mason | Franklin Co | All his life | no | Free Negro. Respectable and intelligent.

Arch'd W Pearce Sr | 61 yrs | Farmer | Franklin Co | All his life | no | Recommended by all parties

James N Uggle | 50 yrs | Clerk & Farmer | Franklin Co | All his life | no | Appointed Dep Sheriff, Mch 1867.

Isham Green | 38 yrs | Shoe maker | Franklin Co | All his life | no | Freedman — Respectable and intelligent.

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I am unable to find suitable persons sufficient in number to form a Board for each Election District, of which there are ten in the County. From careful inquiry, I am satisfied the persons above named will do their duty intelligently and honestly.

Franklinton NC
May 4" 1867

[[signature]] Tho H Hay [[/signature]]
1 Lt 42d Infty, Asst Supt.
Bu R F & A L.

Transcription Notes:
Engrossing — the process by which a bill is updated as it makes its way through the Senate or House