Session Laws (May 1781).

• imprint_number: 1781.035
• title: Acts passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, begun and held at the public buildings in the town of Richmond, on Monday the seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and from thence continued by adjournment to the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta.
• sequence_number: 35
• year: 1781
• place_issued: Charlottesville
• issuing_press: Dunlap & Hayes
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Assembly session began in Richmond on May 7th and was immediately adjourned until May 24th at Charlottesville as a result of approaching British military operations; adjourned again on June 4th until June 7th at Staunton, where it continued until June 23, 1781.
  John Dunlap and James Hayes were appointed as Virginia's public printers in November 1780, but several war-time incidents kept them from printing in Richmond until December 1781; they conducted some public business in Charlottesville during the government's western exile in the summer of 1781; this is one of those imprints.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dunlap
  • James Hayes

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