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Petition Number 217, Year 1847_

[Cover sheet reads: “No. 62. Petition of Absalom Carson of Bradley County praying the passage on an act authorizing him to hawk & peddle or to retail spirituous liquor without license”. The petition was read in the House on Nov. 5, 1847, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The committee recommended it be approved.]

Cleveland, October 23rd, 1847

Mr. Purvine, I enclose my petition to you which you will please have attended to as soon as you can. You can see the signers names and know them all, and you will please lay the same before your body immediately.

Yours with respect, Absalom Carson

State of Tennessee, Bradley County

To the Legislature now in Session, assembled in Nashville, Tennessee, the petition of Absalom Carson a citizen of Bradley County and State aforesaid, would represent to your body that he has lost the sight of his right eye caused by a lick, and when he labors his eye gives him so much pain that it renders him incapable of performing labor enough to support himself and family. Now from the premises, your petitioner would pray you to grant him the privilege of Hawking and Peddling or of retailing Spirituous Liquors without license, whichever your body may see fit to do. Said Stock not to exceed from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars.

Absalom Carson

We the undersigned citizens of Bradley County are acquainted with Mr. Carson and believe what he has stated in the foregoing petition as true, and would recommend his case to your consideration.