{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10384505","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10384505","state":"Delaware","county":"","file_day":17,"file_month":1,"file_year":1845,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: presented, read, referred; Senate: read","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Sixty-three residents of Smyrna represent that they \"have for long time been under serious annoyance from frequent large and noisey assemblages of Negroes & others in the Streets of the said town and by evil and dangerous practices of Boys and others in firing guns crackers Squibbs &c and the throwing of fire Balls about the streets especially about Holliday times.\"  They therefore pray that a law be passed \"to prevent in future the evils they now complain of.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Right to carry (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Right to assemble (Black)"}]}]}