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Place of Publication: Harpers Ferry
Index Card Notes: Shenandoah Paper Manufacturing Company Negative Photostat copy. Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Signed: H. Ellis, President. Announcement of intention to start operations at Harpers Ferry. Purchase. Library of Congress 1961 Oct 22

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monroe County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia. Your petitioners, inhabitants, and voters in the county of Monroe, respectfully represent, that they feel themselves, and all the people of Virginia...injured by the traffic in spirits and intoxicating liquors...your petitioners pray your honorable body to enact a law prohibiting within this commonwealth, the sale or barter of any intoxicating liquors, except for...and that the law shall not take...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Marshall County Index Card Notes: Memorial. To the honorable, the legislature of Virginia: we the undersigned petitioners, citizens of Marshall county, state of Va, being deeply impressed with the great and growing evils of intemperance in this county and also of the inefficiency of the existing laws to regulate or suppress this traffic--we petition your honorable body to enact a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits as a beverage, similar to...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia: Whereas, on the 1st day of June, 1852, there was an act passed the general assembly of Virginia, providing for opening and keeping in repair the county roads in the counties of Monongalia, Wetzell and Marshall, (Chapter 176 of the Acts of Assembly of 1852, for requirements)...Voters were ignorant of objections in said acts...find it oppressive, humbly ask your honorable body to repeal that portion...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, laborers, and other citizens of Wheeling, do respectfully represent that it is the general desire of this entire community that the general assembly shall renew the charter of the merchants' and mechanics' bank of Wheeling, and the Northwestern bank of Virginia...the undersigned pray that the charters of these institutions may be renewed...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ritchie County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia. Your petitioners, voters of Ritchie County, respectfully represent that they feel themselves, and consider the people of Virginia,...Injured by the traffic in ardent spirits and liquors...your petitioners pray your honorable body to enact a law prohibiting within this commonwealth the sale or barter of any intoxicating liquor, except for...and that the law shall not take effect until it has been...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: Memorial of the Board of Trade of the city of Wheeling, to the honorable, the general assembly of the State of Virginia: your petitioners respectfully represent, that they are the representatives of the business community of the city of Wheeling, the second commercial city in the State of Va., and as such, they are bound, in duty to their interests, and the State, to submit these facts...etc. The said road would connect with the...

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Place of Publication: Kanawha County
Index Card Notes: Brds. Tariff of Tolls, to be charged on the Kanawha Turnpike road
Signed by Wm. P. Munford, sec'ry. Board of Directory's of the James River and Kanawha Company. 1 sheet, tolls adopted January 17, 1855. Source: Sep, A&M 1934
Original & Photostat Positive

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: The Memorial of the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co., by the president and board of managers thereof, respectfully represents, your memorialist is a corporation...That erected a wire suspension bridge over the main channel of the Ohio River, at Wheeling, and that important work has recently been completed...A few steamboats, which have been built since the bridge was undertaken, have...

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Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of the state of Virginia. The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Ohio County respectfully represents; the wants and interests of the North-West section of the state, have long required the construction of a road to connect the city of Wheeling in the County of Ohio and Clarksburg in the county of Harrison. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Subject(s): Roads.