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To his Excellency Samuel Houston Governor in and over
the State of Tennessee.

The Petition of your subscribers citizens of the county pf Maury
in said State respectfully represents to your Excellency that at the
December term of the circuit court for said county, A citizen
Robert A Rankin for a violation of the penal law of the State,
was sentenced to a fine of fifty dollars, and imprisonment for the
term of four months; somewhat more than one half of which
latter punishment he has already suffered.

Your Petitioners would further respectfully represent, that
the said Robert A Rankin is a man in indigent circumstances
with a Wife and child dependent solely on his personal exertions
for support, and tha this present confinement renders it impos-
sible for him either to contribute to their sustenance, or to provide
means to answer the pecuniary part of his sentence. We
therefore respectfully pray that your Excellency would consider
the helpless & destitute situation of the family of the said Robert
A, and remit to him the remainder of his adjudged period
of imprisonment, and authorise the Jailor of said county of
Maury to set him at liberty. And as in duty bound we
shall ever pray &c.

Allen Brown
G. W. Campbell
M J M^cKee
Jos Herndon
T. A. Cahall
Sam^l H Williams
[Pat R?] Maguire
Edw^d H Chaffins
Rich^d B. Papmore
W^m S Moore
William P Williams
John Justone
Henry B Waldrum
Sam^l B Scott
Charles W. Webber
Micah G. Lewis
John L Smith
William C Cherry
Caleb Thomas
Andrew C. Hays
John B. Hays
W^m Philan
A H Davis
John Porter
L. B. Reairs
Sam^l Phillips
R. A. Parks
J P Brown
John T Moore
[?]
H Ware
Jonas E Thomas
J. R. Plummer
John Kilcease
D B Frintson

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