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AMERICL~ HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Your petitioners have heretofore felt solicitude for the removal of the inconveniences and privations which they have presented for consideration, but forbore to press them while their Country was in- volv'd in war and while more importnnt matters (less local) seem'd to require legislative deliberation. Those claims upon the forbear- ance of your petitioners are happily remov'd, and they appeal with respectful confidence to their Representatives for redress. S. HAMl'lIOND THmus EvANs BENJm CARTER RICHARD :J\iATTINGLY WILLIAM BRowN JOHN C. BENEDICT MATrHEW :McPAKE ( ?) J. FENDLEY AD.A:.I[ BROWN E. ELLIS Wm F. ROBERTS JOHN HAP BURN JOHN LAMB ELIJAH L. RAY RonT SrnoNTON JOHN LEON ( 1) AAnoN GUERNSEY by his order W :r.r STEW ART [A second copy of the petition bears the additional signatures:] J Al'llES DOWLIN RonERT STEWART CYRUS CURTIS J. FINDLEY ALEX' STARllUCK ExPEDIENT Borns RICHARD LEMBESSON ,v. BROWN
ELIAS :BATES JAMES DAVIS JOAB STRICKLAND J. KE1''"DAL JOSEPH ANDREWS ,
11. STEPHEN F. .AUSTIN ON JUDICIARY SYSTE?tI
[December, 18181] It is with the greatest diffidence I attempt to address the C. [Coun- cil?] on this subject it is [a] subject with [which] on % of its mag- nitude, of the numerous and important Interests and consequences which are imbraced by it involving in them the closest Interests and most esteemd and import[ant] previleges of every member of the Community Individually as well as the aggregate welfare of the whole The Bill now under consideration contemplates a total and radical change in the Judiciary system of this Territory. Sir with what reverance, with what deliberation and with what caution should we approach the important subject 1 We are about to lay our hands on the most conspicuous and necessary part of that mag- nificent superstructure which is reared upon the constitution and- should it be opperated upon and changed unskillfully and injudi- ciously the beauty and Harmony of the whole fabric will be defaced
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