Early Governors' Papers

The refusal to deliver the books obliged the General assembly to act upon that subject again in December last and in consequence of the resolution here with inclosed passed on the 24^th of that month I have appointed and authorized General John Willis & Francis Locke Esquire or either of them who may have the honor of handing you this letter, to call upon your Excellency for all the books and papers of that Office now remaining in your possession or of any person under your order and authority, and I have to request this favour of you to cause them to be delivered to them or either of them with as little delay as possible, as the state has already incured a considerable expense with respect to them with no other view than a sincere desire to discharge a duty she conceives she owes

Knoxville April 30^th 1799 -

Sir

By virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of N^o Carolina, accompanied with a resolution of the same, relative to the office of Martin Armstrong Esquire, we the undersigned have been appointed by his Excellency, the Governor of N^o Ca= rolina, to lay before your Excellency sundry communications and dispatches, and having arrived in Town late last evening, now wait at M^r So[page damaged] villis Ordinary, for a convenient and proper ho[page damaged] of visiting your excellency on the business aforesaid and which we hope you will notify us of by appointing such time as will be most convenient and suitable.

We have the Honor to be Your Excellencies mo^st obd^t

J Willis & Fran^s Locke

From Gen^l Willis & F Locke esquire

30 April 1799

His Excellency John Sevier - Knoxville