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Pursuant to a decree of the County Court of Fentress county adjudging that
William Crockett Entry Taker for said County has forfeited his Office
as Entry Taker as aforesaid, we the citizens of the County of
Fentress being well acquainted with William B. Richardson
and considering him to be a man of honesty integrity and
good moral conduct do recommend said William B. Richardson
to ^his Excellency William Carroll the Governor of this State to give him a protempore appoint
=ment as Entry Taker as aforesaid agreeably to act of Assembly
in such case made and proceeded

Given under Our hands this 21 day of April 1825

John H. Richardson
Conrad Pile
H H Atkinson
John West
A M Atkinson
Drury Evans
John Long
Maclin Cross atto
at Law of Overton County
Strother Frogge Esquire
Robert Richardson