McMinn_Letter_059_48437

Shelbyville October 9^th 1817

D^r Gen^l

The enclosed is a report of the committee pf the fifth Brigade of Ten. for your examination and approval, and beg sir after your examination you will enclose it to the members of the Gen^l Assembly at Knoxville now sitting.

by Order

Sam^l H Williams B. Gen^l 5^th B. T. M.

W. R. [?] 2^t [?]

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[Shellsville? ? 18? 06?]

Maj^r Gen^l William Carroll Nashville Tennessee

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To the Honorable the members of the General Assembly of the state of Tennessee at Knoxville now sitting. The undersigned petitioners respectfully represent to your Honorable body, that there are some parts of the militia laws governing the citizens of this State which ^are very unwholesome, and can be very easily remedied by your interferance; As few of the most prominent ones are here noticed.

We the undersigned committee chosen from the fifth Brigade of Tennessee militia do report to the members of the present General Assembly as follows; We believe it would be perfectly con= sonant with the interests of the citizens of this state that, that part of the 8th section of the Militia laws of this State which leaves it discretionary with the Brigadier General to call the officers now commissioned officers & musicians to the centre of the Brigade for the purpose of instructing them in the various branches of the military suscipient; We do recommend in its room, that it shall be the duty of the Brigadier General to call the officers non commissiond officers & Musicians to the centre of each County annually in September & there to be drilled as the law directs -