{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11281801","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11281801","state":"North Carolina","county":"Bertie","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":11,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"\"ordered\" that the prayer be granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Seventy-four residents of Bertie County report that \"one or more districts in our county has been without a constable for a considerable time and that it is owing to the lowness of the present fees.\"  They therefore pray \"that your honourable bodies will pass a special law to increase the fees of constables within the county of Bertie.\"  One of the fee increases listed is: \"For whiping a negro by order of Court or by a justice of the Peace -- 0.25.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Whipping"}]}]}