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To his Excellency Samuel Houston Gov. of Tennessee

We the subscribers inhabitants of Henry
county beg leave to state to your Excellency that we
are well acquained with William M Brown
attorney at Law of the Town of Paris and from
his age, knowledge of the Law and experience
as a practitioner we are pusuaded that
his appointment to the office of Solicitor
will be acceptable

We therefore recomend to your
excelency his appointment to that office

T. Cooney
John McClellan
Danl Mason
John Young
Thomas K Porter
A. M. Hamtramck
Hugh Dunlap