Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
A project of the Bradley County Historical Society

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Year 1861, Petition Number 5_

[The cover sheet indicates that this bill was introduced by Millard in the House of Representatives, and was tabled on Dec. 9. The petition and signatures were faint and very hard to read.]

To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee now in Session at Nashville

We the citizens of McMinn and Bradly Humbly present to your Honorable body the necessity of a Toll Bridge over the Hiwassee River at or near where the present Bridge crosses said [-?-] which has recently burned, and prays your honorable body to grant us a charter for a Toll Bridge and that you appoint such men as you in your wisdom may deem fit and proper [-?-] citizens of said counties will labor under great inconvenience for the want of a bridge and the Rail Road Companies have determined not to build such a bridge as will accommodate the traveling Public other than those that are transported by the Cars. We would suggest the names of B.F. Martin and Hugh McD[-?-], C.C. Carter and T.P. Baty are suited for appointment [two lines are crossed out] and as in duty bound we ever pray & etc.