To the General Assembly of Virginia - Your petitioners represent that in consequence of the unprecedented (?) form of the districts as they were laid off in Doddridge County for the election of county officers, no constable has been, nor probably ever can or will be, elected in West Union, nor within five miles thereof. Your petitioners represent that the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through this county and town has brought many strangers together at this point with whose moral character and practices your petitioners are unacquainted, and as there is no peace officers in West Union but the Sheriff of the county who is constantly absent on business, your petitioners pray that a law may be passed without delay to authorize the voters within the corporation of West Union to elect two constables to reside in said town with jurisdiction over the county. Clothed with the same powers and subject to the same penalties that the constables elected by the law now in force are subject to with an express clause requiring them to reside in West Union, and as in duty will ever pray be.... Signatures: F. D. Hickman, Floyd Neely, (illegible), B. M. Morris, James Morris, Richard Bland, B. F. Leonard, John Wright, E. L. Gill (?), John A. Gallahue, Thomas Harden, (illegible), Josiah H. Shinn, James A. Foley, Allison Rogers, Charles Davis, (illegible), (illegible), B. F. Jones, Calvin Dotson, Thomas (?) Weekley, John Justice, P. Winters, J. McHugh, John Hunt, Ephraim Bee, John J. Ingle, C. (illegible), Lafayette Davis, F. M. Haskins, Michael Donohue, D. H. Lantz, William Kelly, F. H. Stalman (?), J. C. Wilkinson (?), George Coonrad, Richard Masters, Douglas Bailey, (illegible), Thomas Taylor, David Hamilton, John Hughes, Benj. H. Maulsby, Amaziah Bee, Jacob Smith, James Goodwin, Thomas Bond, Gamble S. Davis, Silas (illegible), Martin C. (illegible), Galon Benton (?), James Fry (?), Stinnett Bee, (illegible), Patrick Malone, John Calley, A. Stranger (?), G. W. Holiday, Patrick Lolace (?), Michael McLaughlin, B. F. Wyatt, John Trainer, Wm. B. Ripley, (illegible), Sam'l McMillan, John Ash, Joseph A. Somers, Oswell E. Keys, Jos. M. Longacre, A. A. Johnston.