Speech of the Governor to the General Assembly (August 1736)

• imprint_number: 1736.009
• title: The speech of the Honourable William Gooch, Esq.
• sequence_number: 9
• year: 1736
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: William Parks
• author: Gooch, William, Sir (1681-1751), lieutenant governor.
• notes: Address of the resident governor opening the Assembly session, setting out the legislative priorities of the imperial administration, delivered August 5, 1736. Here Gooch suggested alterations to the militia law and new duties on liquor imported from neighboring colonies.
  
  
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