Map cabinet 2

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Subject(s): Public sales, county petitions, transportation.

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Place of Publication: Moundsville, Virginia
Index Card Notes: Moundsville. Marshall Advocate. New Year's address, to the patrons of the defunct Marshall Advocate, as rapped out from the spirit land by the "Devil." /Moundsville, 1855. 2 cols. Dated at head of text: Moundsville, January 1, 1855. Photostat Copy.
Source: Berkeley County Court 1955 Dec

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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

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Place of Publication: Ridgeville, Virginia
Index Card Notes: Public sale. Romney, printed at the "Intelligencer Office," 1855. Signed: John R. Dye. Dated: Near Ridgeville, March 3, 1855. Caption title. Text begins: The subscriber will sell at...
Photocopy, positive. Heft - Haymond Heming Law Firm - A&M 544 1953 Sep 9

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Place of Publication: Virginia
Index Card Notes: Gallahue, Squire M. Circular. Address, on the internal improvement policy of the state, and the debt, resources, revenue and expenditures of the commonwealth of Virginia. [Text begins.] [n.p., 1855.] 4 cols. Dated at the bottom of col. 4: May 8th, 1855. Mutilated. Source: Transfer A&M 256 1963 Jun 17
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Place of Publication: Preston County, Va
Index Card Notes: West Virginia. Pension and Bounty Land Warrants. To claimants. Pension & Bounty land agency. Bounty land warrants wanted!... Baltimore, Murphy & Co. Printers & Stationers, 178 Market St. 1855. Signed: John H. Hoffman, Bruceton Mills, Preston Co. Va.
Original & Photostat Positive. Purchase. Chesapeake Bank Co. 1956 Apr 55

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Wood County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of Wood County, respectfully represent, that in Feb. 1851 a charter was granted, authorizing the construction of the Northwestern Va. Railroad from Parkersburg to the B&O RR. Near Three Forks Creek in Taylor Co. and that a provision was inserted in said charter, at the instance of the City of Wheeling, forbidding the use of said Northwestern Va. RR. Until certain terms...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: your petitioners, citizens of Harrison County, respectfully ask the passage of a law authorizing the construction of a turnpike from some point on the Sistersville and Shinnston Turnpike, at or near the residence of Rezin Brown, on the right-hand of ten-mile Creek by way of Limestone Station, on the North-Western Virginia Railroad, and the North-Western Turnpike, to some point on the Clarksburg...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of Harrison County, respectfully represent, that in February, 1851, a charter was granted, authorizing the construction of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad from Parkersburg on the Ohio River to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at or near the mouth of Three Fork Creek, in the County of Taylor, and a provision was inserted in the said charter, by the city of Wheeling,...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the senate and house of delegates of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of Ohio County, beg leave to remonstrate against changes proposed by the council of the city of Wheeling, in that part of the charter relating to license for ordinaries and places where spiritous liquors are sold...loss of revenue...etc...the undersigned desire that the sale of spiritous, vinous, and malt liquor may be subjected to regulations,...