William Baker, a man "whose means are at best very limited," seeks compensation for his slave who was killed by "the accidental falling of a peice of timber while raising the Roof" on the Marion District jail. Baker believes "that it is always the intention of your honorable body that persons whose hands are employed on any publick work belonging to the State shall receive a fair profit on their labor instead of the loss of them." The petitioner therefore prays that his case be "attentively and feelingly considered" and that "some remuneration be made for the loss of said negro."
Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
