Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
The humble Petition of Ptolemy Powell, Lieutenant and commanding officer of the Guards at Halifax, Humbly Sheweth that the Pay of Lieutenant will in no wise support me in the station I
now stand, and ever being willing to serve my country, Would not willingly desert the same. Your petitioner, therefore, prays that you would raise his Rank to a Captain and Captain's Pay from the Date of my Commission.