10384511https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10384511Delaware1011845LegislativeHouse: presented, read, referred001Delaware State Archives, Dover, DelawareDelaware resident James Law represents that he owns land and slaves in both Delaware and Maryland. He therefore prays that a law be passed enabling "him to employ the Said Slaves in Either State as it may Sute your Petitioner without endangering his rite of Propperty in Said Slaves."Absentee owners