Reuben Howard, a fifty-year-old free man of color, asks permission to remain in Virginia for six months. He represents that "he has a wife and five children in said County, & has paid for his wife & four children." Howard further states that he visited his mother in Ohio last year thereby being "compelled to leave the state." Noting that "he is now subject to Rheumatism," the petitioner "appeals to the Humanity of your Honorable body, and prays that an act may pass, allowing him to remain six months in this Commonwealth, by the end of which time, he will remove with his family to the state of Ohio." Howard avows that "he was not aware until within a few days of the consequence of having visited the state of Ohio."
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
