Stephen Copland represents that "there was in the Course of last winter a Negro man killed on the Road ... by a Cherokee Indian who for Sd. Crime was Committed by me to Catharidge [Carthage] jail." Copland complains that he and his assistants have yet to receive compensation for "carying the sd. Indian to jail" and that their "only Redress now Lies in the breast of the honourable house of representatives."
Result: Referred to committee on claims; $10 allowed.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
