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fixing the time at which the election is to be held, and also the period when the electors must meet for the purpose of voting. In order that we may have our full weight in the elections for President and Vice President hereafter, I would recommend that the general ticket system should be adopted. It is true that no danger of division is to be apprehended at the approaching election; but in future when we may differ in our choice, an indivdiual by the force of circumstances, may under the arrangement by districts obtain a plurality of electoral votes, to whom a majority of the State may be decidedly opposed.

Since the close of the last session, the following - temporary appointments have been made. William A Cook, Esquire chancellor, Thomas H Fletcher Esquire Secretary of State, Bromfield L. Ridley Esquire, Attorney General for the fifth solicitorial District, and Gideon J. Pillow, Esquire Attorney General of the ninth solicitorial District. Those appointments were made to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignations of the former incumbents. As the commissions under which the present officers act, will expire at the end of this Session, the duty of making permanent appointments will devolve upon you before your adjournment.

In casting a glance at the present condition of our State, it is gratifying to observe its eminent prosperity. The rapidity of its recent growth, the important relative position it has attained among its sister states - the fertility of its soil and the industry

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