Primary County: Greene

Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD): 1803/01/17

Petitioner(s):

Purpose / Short Description:

Text of Petition: 17-1-1803-5
To the Honorable the General Assembley of the
State of Tennessee~
We your humble Petitioners of the County of Green
in said State humbly sheweth that we think Our Selvs
and the Citisens of Our County Aforesaid Agreved
by some of the Conduct of the Court of Our said County
which Court Comenced on Munday the 24th Day of Ianu
=erey in the year of Our Lord 1803 at Greeneville, Which
Grevence is as folowes, to Wit that on the Second Day of
the term it being the 25 Day of Januerey aforesaid the
Court Maid an Order that there shold be the sum
of Sixty Dolers of Our Counties Money Apropriated
to the Use of hiring a County Solicitor to Act as
sutch in Our said Court for One year Over and Above
All his Lawfull fees, and so proceded to Lay the tax
for said year as high as the Law Wold permit them,
and for the proof of Our Ascartion We Apeal to the
Records of said Court ~
Now if you in your Great Wisdom Wold Direct
Some Other Systom for the Government of Our County
so that we may be Remedied against sutch inju=
=ries and Affix A plan Whereby Our Publick Good
might be in more safty and the Rites of the People
Not Violated Your Petitioners as in Deuty bound
shall Ever Pray ~