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my health requires immediate
[exercise?] Under these circumstan
=ces it is hoped that your Excellency
may be pleased to defer calling the
Legislature untill my arrival when
a Report shall be made in
due time

I have the honor
with sen[timen]^ts of the hig^t
resp^t to be
y^r mo. ob.t

[John] Overton

His Excellency
John Sevier Esqr