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DARLINGTON DISTRICT FLAG, Spring
1998 Issue
PETITION
FROM CITIZENS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY
TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1794
South Carolina
To
the honorable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina.
The petition of the
Subscribers Citizens inhabiting the County of Chesterfield in the State
aforesaid Sheweth
That your Petitioners are
convinced of the great inequality of the Representation in the Legislature of
the respective Election District within this State and fully pursuaded that in Republics founded on just and reasonable princilples Freemen ought to have by their Representatives
equal power in making the Laws by which they are Governed.
Wherefore your
Petitioners firmly confiding in your Wisdom and Patriotism pray your Honorable
House to take the Premises into consideration and to equalize the proportion of
the Members of the Senate and house of Representatives
for the respective Election Districts in the said State as to you in your
Wisdom shall seem meet.
And your Petitioners will
pray.
|
James Howl |
John Carlin |
Jonathan Prestwood |
|
Wm
Rivers |
Thos. Blizard |
William Sellers |
|
John Purvis |
|
W Lynh |
|
Richard Graves |
Joshua Lisenbe |
William Lang |
|
Stephen
Strickland |
George Bullard |
|
|
James Edwards |
Zacareah Canty |
Wm Ellerbe |
|
Wm Norriss |
Wm MaLaffey |
Peter Temple |
|
James Purvis |
John Mc
Rae |
|
|
Ambrous Yarborough |
Wm Prestwood Jun |
|
|
James Dunneho |
Wm Ganey |
|
|
John Skipper |
|
|
|
George Murdeshaw |
Lewis Boatrite |
|
|
John Thurman |
Drury Lundy |
|
|
John Huggins |
Soloman Scot |
|
|
Ripley Coplin |
Wm Prestwood Senr |
|
|
Elisha Strickland |
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[Reference- South
Carolina Department of Archives and History, General Assembly Petitions,
1794-132-01]