Early Governors' Papers

Memphis March 10^th 1835.

To his Excellency W^m Carroll Governor of Tennessee,

Sir, We hereby respectfully resign the office of Notary Public heretofore confered [sic] upon us for the County of Shelby.

Your ob^t Servt^s R. C. M^cAlpin Nath^l Anderson

P.S. We beg leave to recommend as a fit and suitable person to fill said office James Rose Esq^r of this place. M^cAlpin Nath^l Anderson W. S. Dabney W. S. Winchester JSa: Rawlings W. T. Gholson James A. Flack John Y. Bayliss Wyatt Christian Seth Wheatley Edmund P. Gaines

R. Lawrence

Memphis 12 Mch

18^3/4

Commission James Rose

His Excellency William Carroll Governor of Tennessee Nashville Tennessee

Shelby County James Rose comd Notary public 16 March 1835

February and sometime in the same month books were opened at Bolivar + [Middleton?] in Hardeman + at [Leaker?], Raleigh and Memphis in Shelby County at the end of 10 days the commissioners at Raleigh returned the stock book with about forty five shares on it. Matters lay so no return from any other place until in June myself and some others here wishing to see the road under way applied to the commissioners here to subscribe. The commissioners stated to us that they had no evidence that more that the 45 shares at Raleigh had been taken + we must take all the balance amounting to more than sixty thousand dollars if we wanted the Books closed - W. did so + they forthwith advertised for an election upon this [+ the?] Raleigh book-

On the day of [action?] a [member?] came from Hardeman + Shelby stating that they were share holder but instead of returning the books there to the commisio= ner here, [cary?] the Court House bill themselves, went into the Court House, resolved themselves into a meeting of stockholders handed in their books to that meeting + proceded to an election.

Sometime after the signing of the Bill and after the meeting was organized by calling in stockholders on the [illegible] book to the chair two of the commisio= :ners here (Jones + Henry) went into the Court House and stayed a short time until they saw from the [co?] on [foot? fact?] that it was determined by the meeting as they considered [illegible] and less of the rights is