Act to Prevent and Punish Desertion.

• imprint_number: 1780.003
• title: An act the more effectually to prevent and punish desertion.
• sequence_number: 3
• year: 1780
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Dixon & Nicolson
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Enacted at the Assembly of May 1780 (May 1 to July 14, 1780); reprinted as Chap. XIII of Acts of May 1780 in Hening's Statutes (X: 263-267).
  Sheet lacks printer credit; the Virginia government relocated to Richmond from Williamsburg in early 1780. The press of John Dixon and Thomas Nicolson moved there as well; however, that of John Clarkson and Augustine Davis remained in Williamsburg, unable to finance such a move. Thus the firm of Dixon & Hunter became the de facto printer to the Commonwealth, without the formal title, as they were the only printing office in Richmond in 1780.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • Thomas Nicolson

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