Petition to Amend the "Oyster Laws", 1847 - Gloucester Co. VA

GLOUCESTER COUNTY
	Legislative Petition
	December 22, 1847


The following document is located in the Virginia State Archives 
at Richmond, Virginia, in a fibredex box labeled "Gloucester 
County Legislative Petitions 1820-1864"; the two document 
identification numbers are: A7001, 15737. 


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| No. 44           |
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| A petition of    |
| the citizens of  |
| Gloucester Co:   |
|                  |
| praying an       |
| amendment of the |
| Oyster laws      |
|                  |
| Thos. C. Clapton |
|                  |
| Dec. 22d, 1847   |
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| Refd. to Pross   |
| Jany. 12th,      |
| Reasonable &     |
| _______ __ Bill. |
| 14th Bill        |
| reported.        |
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To the General Assembly of Virginia, we your petitioners most 
humbly beg that your honourable body will amend the Oyster law 
now in force in the following way Viz. The 4th Section which 
prohibits all except citizens from catching oysters from the 
first of May to the first of September. This we wish amended so 
as to read from the first of May to the first of October. The 9th 
Section we also wish amended so as to extend the time of 
transporting oysters out of the State to the first of May, 
instead of the first of April as it now is. The 11th Section we 
also wish amended, which now prohibits vessels over 65 tons from 
transporting oysters out of the State and requiring vessels to be 
Licensed by the County courts, this we wish amended, so as to 
allow vessels of all classes, to carry oysters out of the State 
and to dispence with the unnecessary trouble of obtaining license 
from the Courts and these amendments we do most humbly beg.

Gloucester County December 15th, 1847



Joel Hayes		1
John Wm. Dunford	2
G. W. Lincoln		3
Wm Williams		4
Richd. S. Cluverius	5
John Shackelford	6
William Robbins		7
James T. Fleming	8
Jno. F. Hall		9
James H. Lewis		10
Ed. H. Rowe		10
James D. White		11
Thom. E. Freeman	12
Wm. B. Diggs		13
Jesse T. Willet		14
Joseph Tilledge		15
Edward H. Rowe		16
M. Cooper		17
Robert R. Berry		18
Levi Thomas		19
John T. Croswell	20
Beverly W. Cluverius	21
John A. Foxwell		22
John W. Harvey		23
Daniel Cas_______	24
John Lewis		25
Daniel Decker		26
Garret Post		27
Archabled ____eay	28
Peter W. Smith		29
Thos. Teach		30
Wm. Dobson		31
Thos. S. Oliver		32
John Smith		33
Lewis Bolvin		34


John Hall		35
Zac Shackleford		36
Thomas Wise		37
John Wise		38
Coleman _______		39
Washington _______	40
Mikul Ambrose		41
Peyton Smith		42
_____ _______		43
Mc Hughes		44
Edward J. Carney	45
William Hogg		46
George Foxwell		47
John Field		48
John L. Leavit		49
Leroy _______		50
Wm. T. Minor		51
John M_______		52
___ _______		53
John Hogg		54
____ith Courning	55
___on A. ___uttlefield	56
Wm. ___inkins		57
Augustin Blake		58
R. Gal't Oliver		59
Ferdnand W. Jones	60
Peyton G. West		61
John W. Hughes		62
Barnet Jones		63
Moses T. _______	64
Nicholas Barcalow	65
Daniel Edwards		66
John H. P. Leawell	67
Wm. Haywood		68

Submitted by Edwin B. Washington, Jr. <washingtoneb@erols.com>

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