Lawrence County, Tennessee, Court:  Gabriel Bumpass Petition to repair
				    Waterloo Street gulley

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This was hard to read in spots:

Papers, July Term 1850

To the Hon County Court of Lawrence County

The petition of Gabriel Bumpass respectfully showeth, that the gulley crossing 
Waterloo Street East of Jail is fast becoming a nuisance by forming a large and 
deep gully; which may become injurious if not dangerous.  Your petitioner 
having failed in his application to the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of 
Lawrnceburg to have said wit ------, they beleiving themselves not ---------- 
power to act as a corporate body except in the case of the public streets and 
public alleys, the title to said land being in the county court, and not in the 
corporation.  Your petitioner therefore ask this grant of a lean for ninety 
nine years to enable him to ------ the nuisance by carrying off the water in a 
tunnel under the ground, and filling said gulley from said street, south across 
the Jail Lot, and is willing to be bound to make a good straight fence of post 
and plank on the West edge of the breaks of the gulley, beginning fi--t East of 
the Jail, so as entirely to enclose the gulley and improve the common raod 
across said lot south, and enclosing it with his own lot No  

Page 2
[This page is mostly unreadable and seems to tell more about what the 
petitioner plans to do to fix the problem.]
4, [unreadable lines]announcement and -----ing south, said lease --- 
----------- for the period of ninety nine years ---- this ----and --- Justice 
to the -----.  Gabriel(?) Bumpass ---- the following conditions and no other.  
The said Gabriel Bumpass to nine ---- straight fever S---- to enclose and G---- 
coom----- as ----, and 45 feet East of the ---- south the ------ said  ---- 
lot to cover over --- Gulley ---- --- a good ---- --- ---- off the water and 
if [two lines unreadable] fail to keep ----. [The rest of page is basically 
unreadable.]

Page 3
and by removing the steep banks an the ---- of ----Road.

And as in duty bound your petitioner will ever -----.

Gav. Bumpass

We the subscribers approve of the object of the object of the above petition --
-- ---- the favour of the Hon Court to grant it.

M B Buchanan
Lewis Miller                      R. G. ramsey
C. C. Gibson                      W. E. Austin
R. O. Parish                      Daniel Buntley
R. G. Henderson                   R. H. Rose
L. Y. Peshert(?)                  F. C. Allen
James H. Gillespie                H Ramsey
John Stephenson                   A. S. Alexander(?)
S. B. Garrett                     John A-----
A. Golier                         Thos. D. Davenport
S. Causbey                        Jno. S. Gaither
Giles M. Meek                     -. B. Vogu--
F. L. Smith                       -. -. Rowles(?)
Benjamin Weaver                   Jas Y. Sacus(?)
                                  Wm Simonton
                                  John M. Simonton
Page 4
Samuel H. Edmonton                Wm Chaffin
P. G. Austin                      Frank Hughs
John W. Austin                    H. C. Angel
Robert E. Barnes                  Noah Parker(?)
Y - Simonton
H. L. Burkitt
W. P. A. Hail
C D T-----
J. B. Bur---
Wm M. Mathews
J. A. Tinnon
John W. Lemaster
John B. Chesser
M. L. Bentley
J. M. Haden
Jno. F. King
C. B. Crook
----m-----y
Wm McKnight Jr(?)
J. Fand------
F. Buchanan
J. N. Bradshaw
A. L. Levitt
John Field

[Please note that names were signatures and not always easy to read.  Copies 
of document can be gotten from Lawrence County Archives, 218 N. Military Ave., 
Suite B-1, Lawrenceburg, TN 88464.  Phone:  931-766-1576.  
E-mail:  lcarchives@lorettotel.net]