The following is <a copy of> the letter sent to Er , to wit
Council chamber
May 13th. 1844
Messrs &
Sirs, s Letters dated at April 25 & 26 are received. The council conversed immediately and after hearing said letters expressed by speech and vote their decided dis-approbation and indignation at the course pursued by in his conversation with in proposing to erace that portion of the memorial relative to Mr Smith’s being constituted a “member of the Army”