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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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Severe crop shortages in several Virginia counties prompt proposals to suspend court proceedings and tax collections; Brunswick County magistrates refuse to open court to avoid ruining debtors. Corn prices anticipated at $5 per barrel, with calls for imports from South Carolina and New Orleans to avert distress.
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So great is the apprehended scarcity in several counties of Virginia, that a proposition has been made to stop the proceedings of the courts of Justice. According to the Raleigh Minerva it has been actually carried into effect in Brunswick county; for "the Magistrates refused, at the time fixed for the last term, to go on the bench and open court: alleging that to give judgments at this period, against many individuals would be their ruin."--Some of the Southern and Western counties, unwilling thus to suspend the administration of justice, have deliberated upon the expediency of petitioning the legislature to enjoin all executions, and to suspend the collection of taxes during the ensuing year. Such a measure is said to have been adopted within a few years past in regard to some of the counties of this commonwealth.
"Our Crops, of every kind (says a gentleman in Brunswick county) are astonishingly short. Nothing less than 5 dolls. per barrel is spoken of, for Corn from the stack. I am confident, that unless our demand can be supplied from abroad, the next Summer will exhibit many distressing scenes of extreme want."-Let the Corn-Merchant, therefore, seriously consider, whether it would not be extremely to his interest, to supply the southern parts of Virginia with Corn, from the more abundant markets of South-Carolina and New-Orleans.
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crops astonishingly short; corn prices at 5 dollars per barrel expected; potential distressing scenes of extreme want next summer unless supplied from abroad; court proceedings stopped in brunswick county; deliberations on petitioning legislature to enjoin executions and suspend tax collection.
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Apprehended scarcity in several Virginia counties leads to proposition to stop court proceedings; implemented in Brunswick County where magistrates refuse to open court to avoid ruining individuals; other counties consider petitioning legislature for suspension of executions and taxes; gentleman's report of short crops of every kind and high corn prices; suggestion for corn merchants to supply from South Carolina and New Orleans.