Petition seeking Restrictions on Hawkers and Peddlers.

• imprint_number: 1806.063
• title: To the honorable General Assembly … the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of [blank] … respectfully sheweth …
• sequence_number: 63
• year: 1806
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Seaton Grantland
• author: Sundry Inhabitants of Virginia.
• notes: One of the few legislative petitions with an identifiable colophon. The petitioners wanted restrictions on the itinerant business practices of such merchants; on December 6, 1806, the General Assembly considered petitions from Bedford, Campbell, Culpeper, Gloucester, and Spotsylvania Counties on this subject and promptly rejected all of them that same day.
  
  
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