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Barbour County Petition, 1852 April 24
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Barbour County
Dates:
1852 April 24
Kanawha County Petition, 1852 May 31
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Kanawha County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned, inhabitants of Kanawha County: respectfully ask your honorable to pass an act at your present session, prohibiting entirely the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors of every kind whatsoever within this Commonwealth--except such as are to be used for sacramental, M Medicinal, and mechanical purposes; under such severe penalties as will be effectual for that...
Dates:
1852 May 31
Temperance Mass Conventions, 1852 June 15
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Winchester, Virginia
Index Card Notes:
Xerox copy from A&M 3, Box 1, Folder 2
Dates:
1852 June 15
Marion County Petition, Navigation Improvement, 1847 January 05
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Marion County
Index Card Notes: To the Honorable Legislature of VA. The undersigned, citizens of the county of Marion, VA., would respectfully shew your honorable body that they are destitute of honorable body that they are destitute of advantageous or regular marketing facilities...your memorialists pray your honorable body to enact a law incorporating a co. with proper regulation, to improve the Monongahela river from the PA. line upwards...etc.
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Dates:
1847 January 05
Barbour County Petition, Road, Turnpike, 1847 January 11
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Barbour County
Index Card Notes: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of the County of Barbour, pray the passage of a law authorizing books opened for receiving subscriptions to the amount of $15,000.00 in shares of $25 for the purpose of constructing a Turn-Pike graded road, from Beverly, in Randolph County, by the way Phillippi, in Barbour Country, to Clarksburg, In Harrison County; and...
Dates:
1847 January 11
Brooke County Petition, Railroad, 1847 January 14
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the Legislature of Virginia: The undersigned petitioners of Brooke County, respectfully represent to your honorable body that a rail road from some point on the South Branch of the Potomac River to some point on the Ohio River, at, or north of the town of Parkersburg, in Virginia, is is imperiously demanded by the needs of the people of the North-Western Virginia; and by the undersigned...etc. [1847, Jan. 14 Brooke County...
Dates:
1847 January 14
Greenbrier County Petition, Court Change, 1847 January 14
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Greenbrier County
Index Card Notes: Remonstrance of the people of Greenbrier against the removal of the Court of Appeals from Lewisburg to the White Sulphur Springs. To the General Assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, citizens of Greenbrier County, respectfully represent, that they have been informed by media that a memorial has been presented to the House of delegated, praying that the holding of court may be changed from Lewisburg to the White Sulphur...
Dates:
1847 January 14
Wetzel County Petition, Turnpike Road, 1847 January 14
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wetzel County
Index Card Notes: To the Virginia Legislature. The undersigned petitioners, citizens of Whetzel County, Pray that your honorable body will appropriate a sum of money, sufficient to make a good clay turnpike, from the North-Western Road, by the way of Fairmont, to New Martinsville, in Wetzel County. A road made of this route, will pass through 3 counties, the while length will be 70 miles; and, your petitioners are advised that $400 per mile would...
Dates:
1847 January 14
Brooke County Petition, 1853 February 05
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned, freehold citizens of Brooke County, most respectfully represent to your honorable bodies, that they are aggrieved and oppressed by reason of the great and excessive land tax. This grievance has its origin not in your honorable legislature but in the excessively extravagant valuation of our land, by the decennial assessor, Richard Starr, in the year 1850...etc. Your petitioners...
Dates:
1853 February 05
Jefferson County Petition, Railroad, 1847 January 22
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: [Doc. No. 21.] Memorial of the citizens of Alexandria and Valley of Virginia, to the General Assembly: The undersigned, citizens of Alexandria, and its vicinity, respectfully sheweth, since the B&O Railroad has been built to Harper's Ferry the trade of the Valley of VA. Has been going to Baltimore...etc...your memorialists believe that a large portion of this trade can be returned by the construction of a railroad...
Dates:
1847 January 22