The Humble Petition of Anna Stacy Deal of the County of Washington in the District of Columbia humbly sheweth—that whereas at a Court holden and begun in and for the County aforesaid on the fourth monday of July last your Petitioner was fined under apresentment found against her, for a Breach of the law, in relation to the Selling of Spirituous Liquors on the Sabbath to Slaves, which fine, together with Costs arising under the Prosecution now amounts to the alarming Sum of one hundred dollars and upwards*—that your Petitioner has resided in this County nearly the whole of her life time and can with great confidence declare that it was her unvaried ambition to live an honest, industrious and upright life, for the truth of which she might appeal to some of the most respectable inhabitants of the County who have know her for many years—that she is a Cripple by the fall of a Horse, a poor woman too, and is now under execution for the amount ready to be committed+ to Jail: for it is impossible for her to pay it—and as she did not intend to Violate the Law and under the above Circumstances your Petitioner therefore humbly intreats your Excellency for your interposition in her behalf. and she will pray.—Recommended by