The petitioners represent to the legislative body that a number of residents of Cumberland County have sustained "great injury" because "vicious negroes" set fire to their houses. If there are strong suspicions that certain blacks were responsible, the petitioners assert, their owners should be compelled to send them out of the state, or dispose of them within three months.
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
