Map cabinet 2

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Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable [the] Legislature of Virginia. The petition of the undersigned citizens of the county of Jefferson, respectfully sheweth, that the road from Charles Town to Harper's Ferry has been almost impassable in the winter months. Your petitioners impress the necessity of turnpiking said road, and incorporating a co. for the purpose. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library. 10/29/74
Subject(s): Road, Turnpike.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Wood County Index Card Notes: To the honorable [the] speaker and members of the Senate and House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of VA. The memorial and petitioners of Wood County are grateful for the animated but unsuccessful efforts, made at the last session, to produce a reform in the existing system of chancery jurisprudence. We hope this will mature such a division and new organization of our chancery courts, as will remedy existing evils and inconveniences....

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Place of Publication: Wheeling, W. Va.
Index Card Notes: New and extraordinary travelling accommodations to Baltimore...
Signed: Wm. K. Newman, Agent
Travel poster advertising accommodations from Wheeling to Baltimore. Facsimile broadside included with Valleys of History, v. 4, no. 1, Winter, 1968.
Transfer from WVR
1968 Mar 25

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Place of Publication: Morgantown, WV

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Place of Publication: Richmond, Virginia
Index Card Notes: /Circular letter/ RICHMOND, MARCH 30, 1814. GENTLEMEN,/Text begins/ /Richmond? 1814./ 10 x 7 7/8, Circular, 4p. Printed on first page. Signed: James Barbour, President of the Literary Fund.
Transfer from Monon. Co. Ct. Rec. A&M 1010 1960 Jun 30 Env. 216

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the Legislature of Viginia: Your memorialists, inhabitants of Harrison County, respectfully represent that your honorable body will pass an act to incorporate a Co., to be called the Monongahela Navigation Co., with the right to demand and receive tolls as may be fixed by law for building locks and cutting a canal from the Buckhannon River to Elk Creek and divert a part of its waters into the latter stream ... etc. Xerox...

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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.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74
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.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74
Subject(s): Banks, Capital Stock.