Fifty citizens of Greenbrier 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." They 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." The petitioners 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
