Document signed by Absalom Lynes, among others, petitioning to the Senate of SC for change in road commissioners. date not apparent, believed to be late 1700's.  Reference: SC Dept of Archives and History , Series S165015, no date given. | To the Honorable the President and other members of the Senate of the State of South Carolina ~ The Petition of the undersigned residents in the parish of Saint Andrews pray your honorable body that the mode of electing commissioners of the road may be altered from the present mode, which they deem a very partial one (whenever a vacancy happened the board filling up themselves) be a mode more consonant to the interests of the parishoners which mode they would humbly submit to your honorable body would be to permit every citizen in the parish to vote for such ap- pointment, by means whereof the commissioners would not only be more conveniently located in a geographi- cal point of view, but the roads and highways of the parish be kept in much better order. By extending relief to your petitioners in the premises they [xxx]duty bound will ever pray- De Bidding Joseph Cole D. Seville John D. Mealy R E Danner James Bunch E. T. North William Wood George Michel Zodk Douejrhan J. Runarky John Arnot Henry I. Chalmers Elias Bunch Absalom Lynes Thoas Beruiscx B. J. Smith John Perry Wm. Lansdell |
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