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either from design or for want of information have disregarded the right of the Moun -tain District to an equitable partici -pation in benefits of the new State Bank
Your Excellency must see the great in -justice done your Memorialists when the wealth [population?] + extent of Country represented by us and taken into consid -eration and an entire [destitution?] of all in any Banking facilities In this state of things we confidently appeal to your Excellenct to contribute to the [illegible]-ness of our wrongs in the Premises by convening the Legislature at an early day, in the exercise of your constitutional privilige [sic], so that the errors of the Directors as herein set forth may be corrected, and your me -morialists + those whom they represent [please?][placed?] in the enjoyment of that right + those priviliges [sic] which have been so unrighteously withheld from us.
We respectfully refer your Excellency to a Copy us the proceedings of this Con -vention herewith transmitted
unanimouisly [addressed?] + Signed by order of the [Convention?] This 15th June 1838
Wm Mc Clain, Prest.
Alvan Cullom John W. Childress } Secretaries