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May 6^th
from North Chickamauga Ten. 12 ^1/2

His Excellency
Governor Carroll
Nashville
Middle
Tennessee

Hamilton County
Justice of Peace
com^d 26 May 1835

Dallas, Hamilton County Tennessee
5th May AD 1835.

Governor Carroll
Sir
At February Sessions 1835 of said
county court, Samuel [Jison?] & Stephen Thurman Esquires Justices of the
Peace for the Militia district and company including the county
Town & seat of Justice; deposited their Official papers in my of-
-fice, as clerk of said County Court; and therewith resigned their
commissions as justices of the peace for said county; and there
not being any other justices of the peace for said company;
& the nearest justice to the Town being 5 ^1/2 miles & the next
nearest about 7 miles distant, the people of the Town &
Company labour under great inconvenience in the transaction
of their business requiring the Official duties of a justice
or justices of the peace; I would therefore respectfully recom
mend to your Excellency, for appointment to that office, the
following named Gentlemen, namely Jared N. Poe Jesse
Humble and Andrew G. H. Puckett believing them to be
as suitable as any others or said company in point of ca
pacity integrity and confidence of the Citizens. The resignation
of said justices not having been noticed on the records of said
court. I Asahel Rawlings clerk of the court of pleas and quarter
sessions of said county can only certify and I do herby
certify that the foregoing is a correct statement of facts
as they transpired in relation to the resignation of said
Justices of the Peace & that there are not any Justices of
the peace nor resident in ^the militia district including
the county Town & seat of Justice of said county.

Given under my hand at office the day and date
first above written
Asahel Rawlings clk