The chief justice, court clerk, and other officials in De Witt County ask that eighteen-year-old James W. Steen, a young man of "sprightly intellect," be permitted to manage his own affairs. They note that his property "is small consisting of one negro woman and 4 children and a few hundred dollars," which "cannot be governed under the Guardian Law without waste & which would be a sacrafice to sell." Believing Steen to be "a young man of unexceptionable moral character," the petitioners pray an act may be passed by which Steen "may succeed to the rights privileges &c which he would succeed to and receive on arriving at 21 years of age."
Result: Referred to committee on state affairs.
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Repository: Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas
