Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
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Petition Number 22, Year 1841_

[Cover sheet is marked: “Petition of Jacob Weaver asking the Legislator to pass a Law otherising the Entretaker of the Ocoe District to Refund Back money by Mistake taken from him”. The clerk has added: “In Senate 1st Nov. 1841. Read and laid on the table on motion of Mr. Miller. J. A. Lane[?], Clk.”

To the Honerable the general Assembly of the State of Tennessee now in Session

Your Petitioners the heirs and Representatives of Jacob Weaver Decd Represent that on the thirty first day of January 1839 that Jacob Weaver Enterd the South west Fractional Quarter of twenty six Fractional Section first Fractional Township North Range 2 East of the Basis line in the Ocoee District then Bradley County estimated at forty eight Acres and it will be seen by the Sertificate of John F. Hannah the County Serveyor for Polk County where they same is Situate at this time that there is a lack of thirteen Acres and all most three quarters of an Acre and Consequencely your Petitioners Paid one hundred & nineteen dollars & twenty five cents for land that was not included in said Entry and said land was Entered at Seven dollars and fifty cents per Acre. Your Petitioners Preys Relief and asks the passage of Law Refunding to them the above amount and you Petitioners as in duty bound will ever Pray October the 18th 1841

John Weaver )) The Lawful
Alfred Weaver[?])) Representatives
of Jacob Weaver
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