The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight ...Samuel Pleasants, junior, printer to the commonwealth, 1823 |
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... authority and accuracy , it has been discovered that not only entire sentences , but whole acts are omitted ; besides innumerable typo- graphical errors , which totally vary the sense . So much of the acts from which Purvis's collection ...
... authority and accuracy , it has been discovered that not only entire sentences , but whole acts are omitted ; besides innumerable typo- graphical errors , which totally vary the sense . So much of the acts from which Purvis's collection ...
Page vii
... authority and decided that " No native American Indian , brought into Virginia since the year 1691 , could , under any circumstances , lawfully be made a slave . " q Thus it has happened , that under the influence of the first opinion ...
... authority and decided that " No native American Indian , brought into Virginia since the year 1691 , could , under any circumstances , lawfully be made a slave . " q Thus it has happened , that under the influence of the first opinion ...
Page xii
... authority of the book be lessened by the consideration that it contains only the laws and state papers of the age , the public transactions of which it records . In every na- tion which has attained any degree of civilization , men of ...
... authority of the book be lessened by the consideration that it contains only the laws and state papers of the age , the public transactions of which it records . In every na- tion which has attained any degree of civilization , men of ...
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... authorities . As an introduction to the laws of an once infant colony , it has been deemed proper to notice those acts of sovereignty , which the peo- ple were either compelled to resort to , when the oppressions of the mother country ...
... authorities . As an introduction to the laws of an once infant colony , it has been deemed proper to notice those acts of sovereignty , which the peo- ple were either compelled to resort to , when the oppressions of the mother country ...
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... authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole power of impeachment . SECTION III . The Senate of the United ...
... authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole power of impeachment . SECTION III . The Senate of the United ...
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