To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee The petition of the Subscribers respectfully represent that some time ago Stanley Johnson of Perry County as Overseer of a Road in said County sued several persons for failing to work on the Road. That in consequence of irregularity of the proceedings and mistakes of the Magistrates some of the Defendants caused him to pay the costs of suit after appeals to the County and Circuit Court of said County carried(?) up by then that said Johnson is a very poor man and the payment of the costs has been and will yet be a serious injury to his family-----They therefore pray your Honorable body to grant him relief by causing the State or County to refund to him the costs which have been or may hereafter be expected by him in those cases----Thus your petitioner will ever pray. Stanley Johnson W. C. Bowman V. D. Barry (same hand as petition) A. Gilmor(?) J. Williams Dickson Hooper James Smyth Enoch Hooper Isaac Shipman _____Hooper John Newton _____Hooper James Lewis Jason Wood Thomas Timmons Jas. Dickson Robert Stafford Willey Tanner Aaron Seiver William Johnson Jenkins_______ William Welch Joel Alsher John Gray William Gray USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Robbie Burnett robbieb@ldd.net