Thirty-eight citizens of Beaufort County "do respectfully request of the Legeslature Now assembled to pass a law, that all free negroes creating a debt, and haveing nothing to execute, that we may levy an execution on his body and put him up publicly and hire him out untill the debt be paid."
Result: Referred to committee.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
