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To His Excellency Newton Cannon Governor of the State of Tennessee
Your Memoralists - Delegates from the Counties of Rutherford - Warren- Cannon - White Jackson - Smith + Overton in Connection assembled at Sparta respect -fully shew to your Excellency That the Legislative of 37 +38 in chart -tering the Bank of the State of Tenn -essee were [activated?] not only by a desire to advance the causes of Internal Improvement and popular education, but intended to distribute with an even hand the bene -fits of the Institutions in the way of Banking facilities to every section of the State by the location of Branches at such points as would carryout and perfect that design.
Your Memorialists are reluctantly constrained to believe that a majority of the Board of Directors have been unmind -ful of their duty in locating the Branches at the places recently selected by them + we [offer?] ourselves + in behalf of the large and intelligent portion of the Citizens of Tennessee represented by us [amid?] ourselves of the occasion to make our solemn protest + to express our de -liberate connection that the Directors
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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
