Early Governors' Papers

Archibald Roane Governor in and over the state of Tennessee

To the Honorable David Campbell, Andrew Jackson, and Hugh Lawson White, judges of the Superior Courts of law and Equity in and for the said state.-

The [Jailer?] of Knox County [by recipient?] to me that Stephen Duncan [illegible] Dixon and [illegible] Childress are now confined in the [Jail of?] Hamilton District on a charge of murder, and that he [illegible] Jail to be very [illegible] sufficient for the same keeping of said [illegible] [Thereby?] [illegible] to the [powers?] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [signing?] [entitled?] An Act in [Addition?] [to?] [the?] [act?] [illegible] an act to amend the act establishing courts of law and regulating the proceedings thereof, I do hereby empower you or any one of you to hold a court of [illegible] and Terminer pursuant to the thirty eighth section of the aforesaid [damage] amendatory act.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Tennessee to be affixed at Knoxville the 15th day of Juyly 1803.~

signed

Archibald Roane

By the Governor W^m Maclin Secretary