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named being over sixty years of age, and tile other a cripple, have
been arrested and sentenced to hard labor at Hatteras, North Caro-
lina, by order of. Major General Butler, or some other officer of he
federal governiient, for alleged fraudulent disposal of the funds of.
their respective banks; and that the ReverendJohn H. Wingfield,
rector of Trinity Episcopal churh) Portsmouth, had been put to hard
labor on the publie streets of that city, with a ball and chain to his
leg, because he refused to renounce lis allegiance to this his native
state: Therefore,
Be it resolved by the general assembly, that the governor of the Attention of
commonwealth be and he is hereby requested to invitte the attention confederatea &.
, tthoriues to be
of tile confederate government to the arrest and sentence of those invitaled
three worthy citizens of this state, and to resieetfully ask that tile
facts may be investigated ; a'ad if found as stated and believed, that
threeocitizens of tile federal states, if there be such in the hands of
the confederate authorities, be held at.' hard labor its hostages for
these three citizens of Virginia ; and if none, that three federal offli-
cers he placed ati brd labor, one with ball and chain, on tle public
streets, and held as hostages for Messrs. Bain, lodges and Wingfield.
No. . -Joint lesolotlon iii telation to the vni ployment of F,e Negroes, &c.
Adopti Fdruary '.), 1864.
* Whereas tie congress of the Confederate States of America, by l'reatabl.
an act passed ont the thirteenth of February eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, and approved by the president,, entitled anl act to increase
tile efficiency of the army, by the employment of free negroes and
slaves in certain capacities, have declarel that all.inale fre negroes
and other free persons of color, &c., Mhall be held liable to perform
such duties with the army, &e. as tilt( secretary of war, &c. may
prescribe : And whereas it is provided that the secretary of war, &C.,
with the approval of the president, may exempt fron the operations
of this act such free negroes as the iuterdst of the country may re-
quire should le exempted, or sucht as he may think proper to* exempt
on grounds of justice, equity or necessity : And wvhereas large dis-
tricts of this conminwealth have' been deprived of a large amount
of their ltbor by tite escape of slaves, and are solely dependent upon
free negro labor: And whereas it is important and necessary that this
class of labor should Ibe permitted to remain in tile districts aforesaid
for liurposes of production : Therefore,
Be it resolved by the general assembly, that the governor be Duty of goyer.
directed to request the secretary of war to exem Pt front tte opera- nor
tions of this act those counties of this commonawi tt itn the power or
possession of tile public enetmy, or so threatened that any attempt to
renmove tic free negroes would endanger their eseape to tile public
enemy.
No. 7.-Preamble and Joint Resolutiou in relation to the death of Ir. I.
M. Wright of the City of Norfolk.
Adopted Marth 10, 1l501
Whereas the arrival within confederate lines of the distressed Pream*bi
family of the deceased, establishes beyond question tile newspaper
announcement of the execution b) the ft derl authorities in olo,
dience to tile senteuee of a. iilitpry commission, of Dr. ])avid M.
Wright in the city of Norfolk, on the twenty-third day of October
eighteen hundred and sixty-three: And whereas.it is fit and proplbr
that Virginia should place upon permanent record her high apprecia-
tion of a son, whose courage, zeal and devotion marked with blood
the first effort to establish upon her soil an equality of races, and in-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0838&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)