Joseph Byrd, deputy sheriff of Roane County, seeks compensation in the sum of $57.20 for expenses he and two guards incurred in transporting "a certain Charles Farris who was then confined in the jail of Roane County, as a witness against a certain Charles Neighbors & others on a charge of negro stealing." Byrd states that the trip to Franklin County, the site of said trial, and back amounted to two hundred and sixty miles and that "according to law he would be allowed 10 cents per mile for himself & 6 cents for each guard." The petitioner therefore prays that a law be passed "for his relief."
Result: "unreasonable".
Or you may view all people.
Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
