Petition of Robert A. Mayo and others.

[Richmond, Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1847]

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1847 petition of Robert A Mayo, and other steamboat proprietors, to the General Assembly, complaining of the actions of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and others in buying steamboats to run in opposition to the petitioners.

"The petition of Robert A. Mayo, Luther Libby, Richard O. Haskins, H. T. Taliaferro, Edwin S. Taliaferro and John Davjs, respectfully represents: That your petitioners are proprietors of a line of steamboats running daily between Richmond and Norfolk. Your petitioners have encountered a heavy expense in purchasing and fitting up boats for the accommodation of passengers, and their annual expenditure in maintaining the line is about forty thousand dollars. Your petitioners not being protected by corporate privileges, are liable to the extent of their fortunes for these expenditures. ... But as they believe the opposition now running against them by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac company, and the Richmond and Petersburg company, is in violation of the charters of both companies; is a misapplication of their funds; and as they believe the design of these companies is to crush your petitioners, and drive them from this line, and then the transportation, and then by onerous charges on the route to compel travellers to take the railroad; they feel that duty to themselves, and to the public, requires them to appeal to your honourable body, for such protection, as you may lawfully grant."--Page 1.

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