Thirty-four "Merchants, Traders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Edenton" represent that they "feel themselves much aggrieved, oppressed and Injured by the Imposition" of a recently passed act that taxes "all Lands, Slaves, Horses, Goods, Wares, & Merchandizes sold at Vendue." They assert that "a Duty of Two Pounds Ten Shillings on every Hundred Pounds Value" for articles sold at auction is "in Addition to, and over and above, the Taxes paid in common, with the rest of the State." The petitioners therefore "Pray that the before mentioned Act may be Repealed."
Result: Senate: bill drawn, read, passed, "laid over".
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
