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Legislature at every Session, is as well qualified to
make impartial decisions, as one who has a
reasonable certainty of the undisturbed possession
of office during his good behaviour.
By the third article of the convention of eighteen
hundred and twenty, regulating the boundary between
the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, it is provided
that whenever the Governor of either State, shall deem
it expedient to have the line between the two States
run and plainly marked, he shall cause a notification
thereof to be communicated to the Governor of the
other State, and thereupon two surveyors shall be
appointed, one by the Governor of each State to
ascertain, survey and plainly mark what is known
by the name of Walkers line. The Governor of Kentucky
is accordance with this stipulation, notified me
early in September last, that he was desirous to have
the line run and marked adjoining the counties of
Trigg, Simpson, and Allen, and solicited the co-ope
-ration of this State. M^r. James Bright was accor-
-dingly appointed the Surveyor in behalf of Tennessee,
and he and Doctor Munsell of Kentucky commenced
the duties assigned them early in November. On tracing
and marking the line it was discovered, that at a
certain beach [sic] tree near Drakes creek, the reported
line took an offset south sixty two degrees west to a
black Jack, on the road leading from Nashville
to Lexington, and thence it took an other offset