[Top of document missing, but enough remains to suggest it is the petitioners addressing the Legislative Council "of the Territory of East and West Florida."] The petition of the free coloured people of St. Augustine humbly shewith, That your petitioners, confiding in the wisdom and justice of your Excellency, implore that they may be permitted to enjoy the privelages [sic] of citizens of the United States, which they at present are deprived of by certain ordinances issued by the corporation of this City, prohibiting them from the liberty of walking the streets or assembling among themselves for the purpose of amusement after the hour of nine o'clock. Your petitioners have always heretofore been in the habit of enjoying the same privelages [sic] as the white inhabitants and no instance can be produced of their having in any way abused such indulgence. Therefore your petitioners have taken the liberty of soliciting your friendly interference in their behalf, and as in duty bound will ever pray, St. Augustine 31st May 1823 Antonio Williams John Fish Antonio Asolonia William Hodgson Peter Sebell Louis Balentine Peter Duvigneau