Ninety-eight residents of Marion County represent that "a negro man named Jim was taken up in this County and Committed to Jail as a runaway Slave"; later, it was learned that said slave "was the negro who had Committed a Criminal Offense, of a high character against the laws of Alabama." The petitioners report that the governor of Tennessee accordingly "delivered [Jim] over to the Citizens of Jackson Co. Ala to answer the charge." Revealing that Jim "was convicted, sentenced to death & executed," they point out that said slave had "remained in Custody under Close Confinement in the Jail of our County for the Term of about Six Months until the fees amounted to the Sum of Eighty five Dollars." The petitioners therefore pray "that an act be passed in this behalf for the Relief of Joseph P. Kelly Jailor of Marion County appropriating to him the Sum of Eighty five dollars."
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
