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To the Honourable Senate & House of Representatives at Knoxville

Your Petitioners, Citizens of the County of Hawkins, _____ _____ of the great important, convenience, and utility of Banking Institutions, when wisely and judiciously managed, and at the same time taking into view the wealth and reputation of this County, would Respectfully call the attentions of Your Honorable Body to the propriety of Establishing and _____ of the above _____ in the _____ of Rogersville.

They feel convinced from the daily increasing _____ Prosperity of said Town, its great intercourse with the principle Seaport Towns in the Union, the many advantages its possessions, from being Situated on the Great _____ Road, and it being the principle seat for _____ in the District, that Your Honourable body will view it as being the most Eligible situation for a Bank in this Secton of the Country REmoved a considerable distance from Knoxville in _____ not only be a just, convenience but add much to the interest of the People both in the County of Your Petitioners and the adjacent ones. Should therefore your honorable body in Your wisdom that a proper? be great _____ a Bank to be established at said Town. You _____ _____ its Capital to be at least from ten to four hundred thousand dollars. And should the derectors or the stockholders of the State Bank _____ _____ to receive it as a Branch of this? we would most heartily _____ with them: _____ wish it to be so incorporated. But should they refuse to do so you would then wish to have it Established as a Principle [sic] district Institution.

D. Alexander
_____ Barker

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