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Place of Publication: Wheeling, Va.
Index Card Notes: Scott, Walter G. Circular announcing candidacy for marshalship of the Western District of Virginia. Wheeling, 1857. Signed: Walter G. Scott. Dated: Wheeling, Dec 3d 1857/Dec 3d entered in manuscript.
Original & Photostat Positive. A&M 1188

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Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: Notice. It is hereby given that the undersigned will petition the next general assembly of Virginia to pass a law changing the limits of the corporation of Martinsburg, so far as to place the undersigned property, without the said limits. Joseph C. Rawlins. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74 (The Petition has a Plat of Martinsburg shown on it)

Subject(s): City Limit Law.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Cabell County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: your petitioners respectfully represent, that the laws at present regulating publications in newspapers are very indefinite and so scattered throughout as to be difficult to find causing losses to us in the collecting of fees...ask that a law in accordance with the sketch herewith presented, be passed. your petitioners also think that it would be to the general interest, if the amount of legal...

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Place of Publication: Baltimore
Index Card Notes: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Local Freight Tariff of Winter Rates 1858-59. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1858-59. To take effect on the fifteenth day of November, 1858. [Text begins.] From "The Printing Office," Sun Iron Building, Baltimore, [1858.] Gives conditions, classifications and rates for shipping freight between Baltimore and Wheeling and Parkersburg. Source: Transfer A&M 282

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Place of Publication: Unknown
Index Card Notes: Gibbs's Cultivator. One 11 x 17 Black & white broadside advertising a newly patented farm implement, [1858].

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: the subscribers, citizens of Monongalia County, respectfully remonstrate against the proposition to annex a part of this county to the county of Marion. We consider it a bad policy to change the county line to suit every whim or the views of a neighborhood, and is really an absurd proposition, to take a slice off the side of a county, which is fifty miles in length, but thirteen in width....

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Jefferson County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of Virginia. We the undersigned petitioners, Citizens of Shepherdstown, Jefferson County Va., beg leave to respectfully to pray your honorable body to re-establish our court known as the court of justice such as it was in 1817 and 1818 and prior to that is as by reference to the session acts of those years will more fully appear, said court to have authority to issue licenses, record deeds,...

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Place of Publication: Gilmer, Ripley and Ohio
Index Card Notes: Gilmer, Ripley and Ohio Turnpike. Rates of toll on the Gilmer, Ripley and Ohio Turnpike.../n.p., 1858./ Dated: October 20, 1858. Source: G. W. Smith Papers

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Place of Publication: Parkersburg
Index Card Notes: Dickerson. G.W. Circular. Parkersburg, 1859. Circular, 4p. Signed: G.W. Dickerson. Dated: Parkersburg, Va., 1859. Page 3 is manuscript letter from Dickenson to John Frame, Dated January 14, 1859. Announcement of charges for receiving and forwarding freight.
Loan. Delf Norona 1956 Dec 7