Petition asking Amendments to Tobacco Inspection Law.

• imprint_number: 1803.070
• title: To the legislature of Virginia. Your petitioners beg leave to represent to your honorable body, that the existing tobacco law, without promoting the public good, deprives them of a profit in this article ... Your petitioners.
• sequence_number: 70
• year: 1803
• place_issued: Petersburg
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Inhabitants of Amelia County.
• notes: Only known copy is held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia; petition was entered into the Assembly on December 10, 1803; the House journal identifies the petitioners and their residence, while text does not; this request was not included as a provision in the act regarding tobacco passed by this session (Chap. LXXX of Acts of December 1803 Assembly).
  Sheet lacks colophon; locale of petitioners marks this as a Petersburg imprint; the complaint, wherein the petitioners sought to reclaim substandard tobacco for their own disposition, was a common one in the state among Republican adherents against Federalist merchants; thus this title likely issued from the press of Thomas Field, but the imprint itself provides no evidence in support of that possiblility, hence the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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