One hundred three residents of White County support Stephen Hill's desire to prove his own accounts. They represent that Hill "has by his own industry and labour purchased his freedom" and that he "is by trade a tanner, in which business he is now engaged." The petitioners acknowledge that "by the Acts now in force in this State, he is deprived of the privilege of proving by his own oath the accounts which he has against those who deal with him" and that "being deprived of so great a privilege subjects him to considerable loss, in his line of business." The petitioners therefore pray he be allowed "the privilege to prove by his own oath all accounts to which he may hereafter create by credit or otherwise in the same manner and under the same regulations and restrictions that free white citizens of said State are now permitted to prove accounts."
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