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Primary County: Greene

Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD): 1803

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Purpose / Short Description: Request to the General Assembly of Tennessee for a new County Solicitor for Greene County

Text of Petition: 1 - 1 - 1803 - 1 To the Honereble the General Assembley of the state of Tinnesse

We your humble Petetioners of the County of Green in said state humbly sheweth that we think ourselves and the Citisens of Our County Aforesaid agreved by some of the Conduct of the Court of our said xxxxxx ^County Which Court Comenced on Monday the 24th Day of January in the year of Our Lord 1803 at Greeneville, Which grevence is as folows, to wit that on the second Day of the term it being the 25th Day of January Aforesaid the Court Maid an Order that there shold be the sum of sixty Dolers of Our Countys Money Apropriated to the xxxx [ewe?] of thiveing a County solicetor to Act as sutch in Our said Court for one year Ouer and Above All his Lawfull fees and so proceded to Lay the tax for said year as high as the Law Wold Permit there, and for the proof of our Ascartion We Apeale to the Records of said Court ~

Now if xxxxxx you in your Greate Wisdom Wold Direct some Other Systom for the Goverment of our County so that we May be Remedied Against sutch injuries and Affix a plan Wherby Our Publick Good might be in more safty, and the Rites of the People Not Violated Your Petitioners as in Deuty bound shall Ever Pray ~ the Rod

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Text of Petition: Amate .. Sept 28 1803 recd sum .. of .pr read ..ofed to Comand t.. of Proposition & Guvanor -

Petition to the General Assembly House of Representation Sep. 28th 1803 lead lified to Committee fro pacction & Gragan as that ...... Edd.....

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Text of Petition: 1-1-1803-2

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Text of Petition: 1-1-1803-3 Petetion to the Assembley

Primary County: Wilson

Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD): 1803/01/10

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Text of Petition: 10-1-1803-1 The Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee. We your petitioners, Citizens of Wilson County, Humbly complaineth, and sheweth, unto your Honorable body, that by an act of the last session of the General Assembly, our said County of Wilson was by devisions reduced below constitutional limits, as by a plat of the same it will more fully appear; On your examination of said plat you find we lack One hundred and fifty five square miles and is left in a very inconvenient; we therefore hope your Honorable body will not suffer such injuries to pass unnoticed, & that you will not suffer the intrust of a free people to be sacrafised to enhance the intrust of any one individual whatever, We therefore hope your body in their acts of wisdom and Justice will grant to us our full content, which has so wrongfully been taken away. -- Begining on the South bank of Cumberland River opposite the south East corner of Sumner County, There to run South twenty three [illegible] East [illegible] paces a parallel line from the mouth of Deakes Pick.