{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10384502","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10384502","state":"Delaware","county":"","file_day":4,"file_month":2,"file_year":1845,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: presented, read, referred","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Forty-three petitioners seek amendments to the law governing the retailing of liquor.  They ask to \"separate intoxicating drinks from other articles of ordinary traffic--to require that a license to retail them shall only be had in the manner now required for tavern license; that the tax be at least $12; and that under no circumstances shall a sale either to or by negroes or mulattoes be permitted.\"  The current license fee of $2.50, they argue, allows \"the most abandoned negro\" to obtain \"a legal commission to poison both morally and physically a whole neighborhood, or at least to render worse than worthless almost all the servants within his reach.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"White affection (FPOC)"}]}]}