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On motion the meeing was adjourned until thursday
the 9^th instant, at which time the following report was presented
and read by the Secretary and unanimously Concured in ~

His Excellency John Sevier Esqr
Governor of the State of Tennessee

We the Citizens of the County of Robertson, although we
repose implicit Confidence in the wisdom, policy and patriot=
ism of the national Council and the senate approve the mea=
sures adopted and pursued by the administration in repelling
the most atrocious injuries, and Counteracting the most baneful
effects which would necessarily flow from the unprecidented
acts of the French and British Governments towards neutral
Nations, in Violation of Treaties, and the infraction of the
law of Nations, - Subversive of the rights and derogatory
to the dignity of a free and independent people -

Yet as a small portion of that Community, whose
privileges have been encroached upon, we assure the Constituonal
right of representing to your Excellency the peculiar incon=
veniences and difficulties under which we labour, and beg
leave that we be permitted to suggest some mode, by which
a redress of our grieviances may be attained. In many of
the adjacent States from whence the State of Tennessee is
Chiefly populated, the usual Course of Civil Law has been
Suspended the Consequence of which is, that those who have
recently emigrated to this Country having in many instances
disposed of their property on a Credit and purchased here on a
Credit, Calculating on making payment from the proceeds of
their property sold in the State from whence they migrated, the
usual Course of law being still pursued here, the late Settlers
(many of whom are in the the most indigent Circumstances) after
encountering all the perils and dangers of a long journey and Set=
ling themselves and families in an unknown Country will be