Wetzel County Petition, 1858 January 11

Place of Publication: Wetzel County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable senate and house of delegates, in Richmond assembled: the undersigned merchants of Wetzel county would respectfully and earnestly urge upon your consideration the necessity of some change in the present mode of assessing the state revenue upon merchants...we ask that the state revenue be assessed upon us, as upon all other citizens, and that the merchant with the farmer and the manufacturer, shall be taxed in proportion to capital invested...Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Subject(s): Merchant, state revenue assessment.