William Thrasher, Robert Powell, James Shearer, and William Dunlop represent that they "arrested one Geo Washington Day ... who was at the time in company with three certain slaves" and that "at the time of the arrest said slaves were in the act of absconding from the state." They report that a warrant issued and Day was charged with "aiding abetting, and being accessory to the escape of said slaves from their master." They further state that the court ruled that Day be permitted "to give bail for his appearance before the Circuit Court in the sum of five hundred dollars;" Day failed to appear whereby "his recognizance became forfeited." The petitioners assert that "it was upon their information that said Day was arrested and upon their testimony in chief that the proceedings against him were sustained." Insisting "that by the forfeiture of his recognizance they have been deprived of the reward of $500 given by law to the informers in such cases," the petitioners pray that the three hundred dollars paid into the State Treasury "on account of the forfeited recognizance" be bestowed upon them.
Result: Referred to finance committee.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
