1848 PETITION

No. 165

A petition from Sundry Citizens of Sevier County

praying that a Bill be passed rope Act to

Compell Owner's of Mill dams on Little Pigeon

River in Said County to put Slopes therein passed

1820.

Ho. of Reps. 4th Jan. 1848 ‑ Read and referred together with Bill No. 271‑to the Committee on the January Minutes.

S. D. Mitchell, Clerk

 

To the Honorable, the Senate and house of Representatives of the State of Tennessee in Session assembled* We the undersigned petitioners Respectfully represent to your honorable body, that on the 24th day of July 1820 an act was passed by the Legislature of this State Entitled "An act to compel owners of Mill dams on little Pigeon river in Sevier County to put slopes therein", which said act was considered so oppressive to mill owners, that by general consent said act was, nor has not been in any instance complied with, and whereas also Boats have ceased to be built above the Town of Sevierville, and whereas also the water in frequently high enough to admit of the passage of fish up said stream. And whereas also a few persons are threatening to enforce said act, the sure result of which mill assuredly be to stop some if not all of the best mills in said county, in as much as slopes as directed to be built by the act referred tog would cost far more to erect them than the profits of any mill on Pigeon is worth, and would be liable to be washed away at least once a year. In order, therefore, to avoid the above consequences to a large numbers of the good citizens of Sevier County and in order to put it out of the power of an ambitious or malicious person to cause so great an evil as the stopping of the various public mills on said River in Sevier County, We humbly petition your honorable body to repeal said act in all its parts, and will hail said repeal as a great public blessing and an in duty bound we will ever pray.

W. H. Thomas����� Robert F. Graham

Isaac T. Fields����� John Toomy

John W. Bell�������� M. J. Graham

Will L. Rogers������ A. Woods

W. P. Farnsworth James M. Lanning

Ta (?) Douglass��� George Rimel

John Catlett���������� S. (?) Bailey

Jas. McNelly�������� A. J. Clark

G. P. Foster����������� Samuel McNelly

P. H. Toomey������� E. H. Williams

H. L. Andes���������� William Morogan

John Snapp���������� Plesant M. Atchley

S. 0. Dickey���������� Eli Cook

M. A. Rawlings��� John A. Lanning

Amanas Tumumes�������������� James Elledge

M. W. McCown�� Flayl Nichols

H. M. Th omas����� W. W. Porter

Jordan Houk����� James L. Brock

A. Bowers�������� William Anderson

Elajah Pease���� B. M. Chandler

J. M. Hammer��� James Chambers

J. T. Eaton������� P. H. Thomas

John Stofel������� Jan. G. Porter

William Ford����� Thomas Romine

Anderson Gallian���������� John Stofel

James Wilson��� Joshu Nichols

John Large������� P. M. Thomas

William Drinnen (?)�������� A. A. Runyan

Jasper M. Samples������� John T. Qualles

C. Cunningham James L, Catlett

Moses Seaton� James T. Cattlett

J. T. Hairr�������� Jos. Linsey

Noah Gosset��� R. C. Andes

Amatis Conatcher�������� John Newman

E. Rominds , Jr S. B. Harris

John Smelzer��� William Quales

John W. Mahan����������� Robert McMahan

John Mullendore

Solomon Andes

Lorinzo I. Andes

Richard Shields

Jacob Huber

Richard H. Claughber

John Kirkle

William Kirkle

Geo. Kirkland

0. P. Jenkins

A. Lawson, Sr.

Signed by 85 persons