<petition><petition_analysis_number>10384505</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10384505</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county></county><file_day>17</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1845</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House: presented, read, referred; Senate: read</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>10</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><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 &amp; others in the Streets of the said town and by evil and dangerous practices of Boys and others in firing guns crackers Squibbs &amp;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."</abstract><subjects><subject>Right to carry (FPOC)</subject><subject>Right to assemble (Black)</subject></subjects></petition>