the no\i tiTin (It the i-oiirt June fol- , \\"' iii- iiwiiicr i 'nMiilcil ot tLo 

 lowinp:, viz: ''Jcssv U. Sik-r, Thorn- j tinios an»l |)>Uiii)tio c.haracit'r of the 

 ;is' Kiinsi'v, T.uke IJarnard, Mnrk j envly" spttlcrs. m rh(' i.i:iniH-r lin^l 

 * ..mMii, James Whitnker, Aaron j i^]iii-it with u-liicij ih('\- scrwd thf 

 )'in?<oii, John Brvson, Sr.'* I find j piihlic interest. I tin*! in .the ^-J/in. 

 lu ihv ''Jf 1)1 ifte.'C' of the June tertn j «<e.s-" for Marcli torni 18*29. with a 

 ',.f rliH (oiiit for IS'JJ) that the oon- j court lioiiso and jail to l.nil.l, this 

 iract for huildins: the conrt house ! order : "Ordered l>y the Court, thit 

 was fuvarded to Col. Dnvi \ Colen^ui ; the Statt tax be 20 i-ents. ami fifty 

 "at three thousand :ind eight hun- j eents on tlio poll — for jdihlii Imild- 

 dred dollars" with Cen. Thomas j ins:s 12^ eonls on eaeh i>olL for to 



Lf)ve and Zaehariah Cahe as securities I defray county charge.s 5 ..-enfs for 



for the faithftd iierforniance of the i weij^hts and measure'* on each oOO 

 oontrnct. At the same time the eon- 1 dollars value of land equal to one 

 tr;iet for buildini? the jail was award- , poll.'' Th'K order is rather luiione 

 ed to Coi. Benjamin S. I>rittain for j in style, l)ut it hrisjors to O'lr knowl- 

 "iwenty jnne hundred and nyiety : edi>;e the rate of taxation. The wide 

 five dollars," who ga\e u<-' securities ; difference between the raxes of 1829 

 for the ])erfonnarce of the contract, j and 1891 is indeed worth v of our se- 

 Jo8eph Welch, Jeremiah R. Pace ' rious consideration. The present 

 and John Hall. The masons who ! population complain most bitterlv 

 undertook the brick work of the , of the heavy burden of tttxation un- 

 court house were Samuel Lyle 'and der which they drag out their ucnry 

 Dr. T. T. Young, of VVa.sliiugton 1 lives. I believe that in the main 

 county, Tennessee. They were good i they lay this sin at the door {;f rin^s- 

 houest workmen in their line. The i men'^awJ the extravagance of officials, 

 brick they matiufacture-l were of j Let us see how this is. Our fathers 

 excellent quality and the house they | believed that they owed a debt to 

 built would 'have stood for n half | good government — to the fairhful 

 ceniury longer. But in style and j adrfiiniatration of law and the con- 

 capacity it wa.-s wholly inadequate to gervation of public peace and moral- 

 the needs of the present population | ity, and they patriotically undertook 

 and from sheer necL'Ssity gave; way j to perform' the public service with- 

 to t-he substantial and commodious | out compensation. 1 (an well re- 

 new one which now occupies the j member the good eheor which pre- 

 site of the old one. For the new j vailed when the people gathered tn 

 and much needed court house the , the quarterly courts to transact the 

 public arc mainly indebted to u few county business and such other buoi- 

 public spirited and patriotic surviving I Iness as came within the jurisdiction 

 sons of the fathers of the county. of a qiarterly court jury. It seemc"! 



