The petitioners, twenty-two residents of Richmond, explain to the legislature that in 1833 slaveholders in Richmond and Henrico County, meeting to discuss ways to "prevent the absconding and abduction of their slaves beyond the limits of the state," formed a society "for the protection of their slave property." They elected a board of directors, president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Now, after nearly a decade, they ask the legislature for an act of incorporation. With such an act, the members contend, the society could better protect masters "from the loss of their slave property" as well as better preserve "the peace and quiet of the community."
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
