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To the Hon General Assembly of Virginia 
Humbly complaining your Memorialist respectrully represents that at the Oct 
term of the County court of the county of Prince Edward in the year 1858 a negro of his 
by the name "Jim" was condemned to be transported for the event of Rape. We at the County Court 
of Prince Edward assessed her value of [illegible] with a knowledge of his [illegible]  at Eight Hundred 
dollars that the gentleman upon whose [illegible] my tghat valuation was made assert that may would have valued  him at Eleven hundred 
dollards but for a very large and ill-looking scar plainly visible on his throat. that this scar ws produced by the boy's throat having 
been cut by the [illegible] [illegible] bond of he woman alleged to have been [illegible], while the said slave 
was setting in Court in the prisioners box under the custody of the Court on twice - Memorialist [illegible] that 
as this injury was close to his [property?] while it was in the hands and under the protection of the Commonwealth 
the loss of three hundred dollars accouonced by the loss of Niver hundred dollars accouonced 
by the said would and scov on the throat ought to be paid by the state over should [illegible]  
ball upon [illegible]  Memorialist. He further statesa that the inclavectual who [illegible]  the 
wound in [illegible]  once hopelessly involvent once a such against him would be utterly