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Wellsburg Herald, Extra, 1853
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hancock County
Index Card Notes: Hancock County. County Court. Wellsburg Hearld--Extra. An address to the votes of Hancock County, Va., in behalf of New Cumberland, as the proper location for the court house of said county. Wellsburg, 1853? 4 cols. Signed: Wm. M. Porter...and others, Com....Eph'm Atkinson, Ch'n. Court house question.
Photostat Copy. Joan Deel Nerona 1956 Dec 7
Dates:
1853
Wood County Petition, 1853 January 11
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wood County
Index Card Notes: Preamble and resolutions adopted at a meeting held in Parkersburg, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1853...The committee appointed then presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: the committee appointed to consider what action should be taken by the town of Parkersburg, and the citizens of Wood County, in reference to an application to incorporate a Co. from Williamsport in said county to intersect the Northwestern Va....
Dates:
1853 January 11
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
Fayette County Petition, Female Petition, 1853 February 08
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Fayette County
Index Card Notes: To the legislature of Virginia. We, the undersigned, citizens of Fayette County, in the State of Virginia, being impressed with the necessity of appealing to a stronger arm than moral suasion would humbly represent unto your honorable body our earnest remonstrances against the existing license law, which favors, if it does not directly encourage, the sale of intoxicating liquors; so we pray you to repeal the old law and pass a new...
Dates:
1853 February 08
Monroe County Petition, 1853 February 10
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Monroe County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned, citizens of Monroe County, respectfully petition your honorable body that upon application of 25 legal voters, of any county or corporation, a poll shall be opened at the next election of delegates to the general assembly, for the purpose of recording the vote of the qualified voters in favor of, and against, the granting of licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors by the...
Dates:
1853 February 10
Hampshire County Petition, 1853 February 12
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: Memorial to t he legislature: to the honorable senate and house of delegates of Va.: the memorial of the undersigned citizens of Clarke, Warren, Frederick, and Hampshire Counties, respectfully represents: that the petitioners inhabit a section eminently fitted by formation and rich production for a railroad at the Forks of the Shenandoah River and from there by way ofn. To Stephensburg and Romney, to Piedmont or Paddytown, in...
Dates:
1853 February 12
Upshur County Petition, 1853 February 26
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Upshur County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned, citizens of Upshur county respectfully petition your honorable body, during the present session, to effect the modifications of the license system, herein set forth, believing as we do that the present law is defective, in that, the county and corporation courts, are so invested with discretionary power, as to be able to license in opposition to the will of a majority of the...
Dates:
1853 February 26
Monongalia County Petition, 1853 March 07
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Monongalia County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia--The undersigned, citizens of Monongalia county, respectfully petition your honorable body to pass an act authorizing the county court of said county, to subscribe, for and on behalf of said county, the sum of $10,000.00 as stock in the Monongahela Slackwater improvement...And that said county be authorized to issue bond or bonds for same payable in 20 years, and that said money not expended...
Dates:
1853 March 07
Diploma awarded by Belmont County Ohio Agricultural Society, 1853 October
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Belmont County, OH
Index Card Notes: 1853 Diploma awarded by Belmont County (OH) Agricultural Society for Best Specimen of Job & Fancy Printing at the 5th Annual St. Clairsville Fair, Oct. 4,5,6, 1853. Source unknown 1980 Je 5
Dates:
1853 October
Brooke County Petition, 1853 December 13
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 citizens of Wellsburg, and of Brooke County generally...Are rich in mineral and agricultural products but undeveloped...it is with reason that the undersigned pray for the passage of a bill including therin first a charter for a railroad from the Virginia State line, through Holidays cove to the Ohio River in Brooke County near to or opposite Steubenville in the state of Ohio and...
Dates:
1853 December 13