RICHMOND COUNTY, NC - PETITIONS - Exclusive Rights for Printing Almanacs
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Found at North Carolina State Archives
General Assembly Session Records, Box 3, December 1795
Petitions (Miscellaneous)

To the Honorable the General Assembly of North Carolina

The petition of William Thomas of Richmond County humbly sheweth  --That 
wheras your petitioner humbly conceivith that your Honors zeal for promotion 
of literature and every species of useful knowledg; especially when reduced to 
practice so as to becom a public utility will induce you to give proper 
rewards and encouragements to those who shall excell  therin  --Your 
petitioner therefore humbly conceivith himself in some degree entitled to your 
Honors attention as being the first in this state who has brought the science 
of  Astronomy  to practice so as to become usefull to the public in respect of 
the Almanac which he has calculated not only in the common way by the Tables, 
but has also contrived a Machine which will calculate all the essentials of an 
Almanac in less than 10 minutes of time.

--Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Honors as a reward and 
encouragement for Sd. enterprise and undertaking may ennact and ordain that no 
person or persons in this state shall print an Almanac for the term of 14 
years without first obtaining a license from under my hand (provide I shall 
continue to furnish copies) under such penalty as your Honors shall think 
expedient --Also that no Almanacs printed in any other state shall be vended 
in this state without licence  as aforesaid and under like of the police of 
this state, and of the United Stateswill admit of such a prohibition  --And 
your petitioner as is duty bound will pray &c.

				Wm Thomas
				Richmond County
				24 Demr 1794

			______________________________

			      Petition of Wm. Thomas
			The House of Commons --2nd Jany 1795
			read & ordered to be sent to the Senate
			      By order  ___________

The Senate 2nd Jany 1795, read and ordered to list on the table.