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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... tion but little more than two hundred years , our public offices are destitute of official documents . It is to the pious care of individu- als c only , that posterity will be indebted for those lasting monu- ments which perpetuate the ...
... tion but little more than two hundred years , our public offices are destitute of official documents . It is to the pious care of individu- als c only , that posterity will be indebted for those lasting monu- ments which perpetuate the ...
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... tion of the same work . The volumes of Purvis appear to have been bound up with blank leaves at the end , for the reception of subsequent MS . laws , and to have been distributed to the respec- tive counties at different times ; as some ...
... tion of the same work . The volumes of Purvis appear to have been bound up with blank leaves at the end , for the reception of subsequent MS . laws , and to have been distributed to the respec- tive counties at different times ; as some ...
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... tion of printed laws , I promised to send you by post a statement of the contents of that box . On taking up the subject I found it better to take a more general review of the whole of the laws I possess , as well manuscript as printed ...
... tion of printed laws , I promised to send you by post a statement of the contents of that box . On taking up the subject I found it better to take a more general review of the whole of the laws I possess , as well manuscript as printed ...
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... given as to printers and places . The first step would be to make out a single tion . • Printed in 1733. 1 Printed in 1752 . B + Printed in 1769 . Printed in 1785 . copy from the MSS . which would employ a clerk PREFACE . ix.
... given as to printers and places . The first step would be to make out a single tion . • Printed in 1733. 1 Printed in 1752 . B + Printed in 1769 . Printed in 1785 . copy from the MSS . which would employ a clerk PREFACE . ix.
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... tion which has attained any degree of civilization , men of the best talents have been usually employed in the formation of their laws , and in the various public departments . Hence it is , that in the laws and state papers of a ...
... tion which has attained any degree of civilization , men of the best talents have been usually employed in the formation of their laws , and in the various public departments . Hence it is , that in the laws and state papers of a ...
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