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Petition Number 85, Year 1839_

[Envelope addressed to Messrs. J. F. Gillespie, J.W. McMillen and James Walker Nashville, Ten. A notation indicates that it was forwarded by a Major Rowls. The Clerk has added “The petition of the Trustees of Oak grove Academy in Bradley County”]

State of Tennessee

Bradley County

At a meeting of the Board of accademic trustees of the Oak Grove accademie in the Town of Cleveland on the 19th day of October 1839. Whereas by the 1st section of chapter 139 of the act of the General Assembly passed the 25th day of January 1838 It is provided that the superintendent of publick Instruction be directed to ascertain the amount of principal of accademy fund, which each county in the State of Tennessee has received under any distribution heretofore made, and that he apply such accademy funds as he now has or may hereafter receive in the following manner: viz, he shall distribute and pay over, in equal sums to such counties as have no proportion of academy funds until such counties are placed upon Equality with such as have received a share. And whereas the County of Bradley have not received any portion of her distributive Share of said fund, and whereas the said trustees have through the officers of their board called upon the superintendent of publick instruction for said money or to be informed when the same can be obtained, which the superintendent has failed to give,

It is therefore resolved by the said board now in session that our Senator and representatives in the General Assembly introduce a resolution in the General Assembly requiring a proper committee to inquire into the cause why the said superintendent have failed to furnish & pay over said money according to said act, and that our said Senator and representatives take such steps as will enforce the payment of the same.

Henry Price

President of the Board of Trustees

James Berry, Sec.