G
ENTLEMEN OF THE S
ENATE:
In compliance with your resolution of the 4th inst. requesting me to lay
before the Senate the documents in my possession in relation to the
requisitions made upon me by Major General Edmund P. Gaines, referred to
in the message to the General Assembly at the commencement of the present
session. I have the honor herewith to submit the following documents (to
wit:)
No. 1. The letter of General Gaines, of the 8th April, 1836.
No. 2. The letter of the secretary of war of the 4th of May, 1836,
No. 3. A copy of a letter of the secretary of war to General Gaines, of
the same date.
No. 4. The letter of General Gaines of the 28th June, 1836.
No. 5. The letter of the secretary of war of the 9th of May, 1836,
And on the subject of defraying the expenses of the volunteer, referred to
in said message:
No. 6. The letter of Major Brant, U. S. Quarter Master, of the 23d May,
1836.
Nos. 19, 20 and 21. Letters from the secretary of war, on the subject of
making the necessary disbursements in defraying the expenses of the
volunteers. Also, documents No. 14, 15, 17, 22, 23 and 24, from the
secretary of war, and No. 16, from the paymaster general of the U. S. are
herewith furnished, as being calculated to afford additional information
on this subject.
In compliance with the request contained in your resolution of the same
date, on the subject of the subscriptions made for and in behalf of the
State, in the stock companies chartered for the purpose of constructing
rail or M’Adamized roads, pursuant to the act of Assembly referred
to, I have the honor to state, that the executive has subscribed for and
in behalf of the State, to the Nashville, Murfreesboro’ and
Shelbyville Turnpike Company, sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six
dollars and two-thirds; to the Gallatin Turnpike Company forty-five
thousand dollars; to the Lebanon and Nashville Turnpike Company forty
thousand dollars; and to the Lagrange and Memphis Rail Company one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars, being one third of the capital stock of
said companies. All of which has been done in obedience to the provisions
of the act of Assembly entitled, ‘An act to encourage internal
improvement in this State, passed the 19th of February, 1836. ’
/s/
NEWTON CANNON
Source:
White, Robert H., Ph.D., Messages of the
Governors of Tennessee, 1835-1845, Vol. III, Published by The Tennessee Historical Commission,
Nashville, 1954, pp. 122-123.
