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To the Honourable his Excellency Archibald
Roan [sic], Governor of the State of Tennessee

Your Petitioners humbly complaining
sheweth unto your Honour, at the last General Assembly
of the state of Tennessee a William Bumpass was appointed
a Justice of the peace for the County of Smith, but unfortu
=nately for the inhabitants thereof was left out of said County
by the division line of Smith & Wilson & fell into
the latter which deprives your petitioners of a Justice of
the peace & puts many of tjem to a considerable degree of
inconveniency, also a Certain Buck Russle was
appointed a Justice of the peace for the County of Jackson
& upon an accurate survey or line run between the s^d.
County & the County of Smith was left in Smith
small distance, which also puts the inhabitants near
that line & in that Company (or a part thereof) to greate [sic]
trouble & inconveniency expecting that the division would
have extended much lower down than it really has
and many of the inhabitants in that quarter of the
County of Smith hath, twenty or thirty miles to travel
to an Acting Justice of the peace in said County, to give
in their list of taxable property, or to do any other
business which maybe cognizable, before a Justice of
the peace, Now may it please your Honour to avoid
those inconveniences Your Peititioners undertake
to recommend to your Excellency a Certain Tandy
Witcher as a proper person to act in the capacity of a Justice
of the peace, whom your petitioners pray may meet