. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. he next day the names of Jo-seph Anderson and James White were withdrawn, leaving only WilliamBlount and AVilliam Cocke as candidates, who were thereupon duly andconstitutionally elected the first United States senators from were prepared by committees appointed for that purpose toWilliam Blount as retiring governor, and as senator elect, and to WilliamCocke as senator elect, to which both these gentlemen appro
. History of Tennessee, from the earliest time to the present; together with an historical and a biographical sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore counties;. he next day the names of Jo-seph Anderson and James White were withdrawn, leaving only WilliamBlount and AVilliam Cocke as candidates, who were thereupon duly andconstitutionally elected the first United States senators from were prepared by committees appointed for that purpose toWilliam Blount as retiring governor, and as senator elect, and to WilliamCocke as senator elect, to which both these gentlemen appropriately Maclin was elected Secretary of State; Landon Carter, treasurerof the districts of Washington and Hamilton, and William Black, treasurerof the district of Mero. John McNairy, Archibald Roane and WillieBlount, were elected judges of superior courts of law and equity. Thiselection occurred April 10. John McNairy and Willie Blount declinedthe appointment, and Howell Tatum and W. C. C. Claiborne were com-missioned in their places respectively. John C. Hamilton was appointedattorney for the State, in place of Howell Tatum, appointed J ^ JOHN Sevier HISTORY OF TENNESSEE. 221 On the 14tli of April a curious piece of legislation was attempted inthe House of Eepresentatives: The bill to preclude persons of a certaindescription from being admitted as witnesses, etc., was then taken up, towhich Mr. Gass proposed the following amendment: That from andafter the passing of this act, if anj person in this State shall publiclydeny the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments,or shall publicly deny the divine authority of the Old and New Testa-ments, on being convicted thereof, by the testimony of two witnesses, shall forfeit and pay the sum of dollars for every such offense, etc The foregoing amendment being received the question was taken on theamended bill which was carried. Whereupon the yeas and nays werecalled upon by Mr. Johnson and Mr
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