Map cabinet 2

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Place of Publication: Harrison County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable general assembly of VA. The petition of the inhabitants of Harrison and Randolph Counties respectfully prayeth; that a new county may be laid out off Harrison and Randolph, by the following boundaries ... etc. Many of whom have from 40 to 60 miles to travel to their respective courts.
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Subject(s): County Partition.

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Place of Publication: Berkeley and Hampshire Counties
Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia; the petition of the inhabitants of Berkeley and Hampshire; respectfully represents -- that a county may be constituted of the territory herein described.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74
Subject(s): County Partition.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Cabell County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, the undersigned memorialists, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Cabell respectfully invite the attention of the legislature to a subject which they regard with deep concern -- the rapid growth of the neighboring states ... the sparseness of ours ... our soil is fertile, climate salubrious ... we trace our present depressed condition of our section of country ... to...

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Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of the commonwealth of VA., the petition of the undersigned, stockholders of the Bank of the Valley in Virginia, respectfully sets forth, that they indulged themselves in the hope that the general assembly will authorize an augmentation of the capital stock of the bank to $1,000,000.
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Subject(s): Banks, Capital Stock.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Jefferson County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. The petition of the subscribers, stockholders in the Bank of the Valley in VA., & neighborhood, and other parts of the valley, respectfully represents -- they are desirous of being connected with VA. interests and VA. institutions; in conjunction with the other subscribers pray passage of a law, increasing the capital stock of the bank of the valley in VA. $130,000 for the purpose...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Wood County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of VA. The undersigned inhabitants of certain portions of Wood, Harrison, & Lewis Counties; beg leave to represent to your honorable body that they are much inconvenienced traveling to their various seats of justice by the great distances and bad roads. They respectfully pray you to erect a new county out of the following described territory ... etc. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the senate and house of VA. The memorial of the inhabitants of Berkeley County, VA., respectfully sheweth ... that the dreadful effects of drunkenness in every department of society which your memorialists desires to call the attention of the legislature ... may it be extended to arrest the progress of this desolating evil and protect the innocent members of the family ... etc. Xerox copy Purchase Va. State Library...

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg
Index Card Notes: Clarksburg. Independent Virginian.
Proposals, for publishing in Clarksburg, Virginia, a weekly news-paper, to be entitled The Independent Virginian. By William M'Granaghan .../Clarksburg, 1819/
Sheet trimmed. Subscribers list.
Transferred from Monon. Co. Ct. Rec. 1960 Jun 30
Env. 257
Jackson, Vachel, etal vs Newbrough, Joseph & Soloman

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia: Your petitioners, citizens of the north west part of VA., call your attention to the improvement of the road from the PA. Line by way of Morgantown and Clarksburg, through the counties of Monongalia, Harrison, and Wood, in a direction towards Parkersburg or Marietta, on the Ohio River ... of great importance to the people of Western VA ... etc. We therefore pray that a law may be passed...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of Berkeley Co. respectfully represents -- ... the length of the road contemplated by your petitioners, will be about 58 miles -- nineteen of which will be in MD. and 39 in VA. passing through the counties of Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson ... we pray that and act may be passed authorizing a turnpike co. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State...