G. S. Norris, president of the Baltimore and Southern Packet Company, seeks exemption from a South Carolina law prohibiting the introduction of people of color into South Carolina from north of the Potomac River. Norris represents that in establishing "a steam ship line between Baltimore and Charleston it may be necessary to employ negroes in the capacity of Stewards Cooks Firemen Engineers Pilots and Mariners." He further points out that "the laws of your state prohibit the introduction of negroes from north of the Potomac into its territories." The petitioner therefore prays "your honorable body to pass a law granting to them permission to employ, use, bring into the state and again remove such negroes as they may from time to time find necessary and convenient to employ in the management of said ships."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
