Nineteen citizens of Lynchburg and Campbell County "look upon well disciplined and efficient volunteer companies, as the only proper standing military force consistent with the spirit of our national constitution,” particularly “at a period like the present, when our whole country is convulsed with internal strife and discord." The petitioners believe that "some powerful encouragement should be held out, by legislative enactment towards the organization of new volunteer companies, and filling up the ranks of those already organized." They therefore pray "your honorable bodies to pass an act for the encouragement of volunteers which ... shall be exempt from the payment of the annual county levy and poor rate, commonly called the poll or capitation tax."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
