Report of the Committee of Revisors appointed in 1776.

• imprint_number: 1784.018
• title: Report of the committee of revisors appointed by the general assembly of Virginia in MDCCLXXVI. Published by order of the general assembly …
• sequence_number: 18
• year: 1784
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Dixon & Holt
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. Committee of Revisors.
• notes: The Assembly of May 1784 ordered 500 copies of this report, and the bills the committee had proposed, printed in advance of their consideration during the ensuing October session; title issued from the Dixon & Holt press in November 1784.
  While widely recognized as Thomas Jefferson's "revisal of the laws" (1779), the revision was a collaborative work between Jefferson, Edmund Pendleton, and George Wythe; this printing included the 120 proposed laws (of 129) not considered by the 1779 Assembly.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • John Hunter Holt

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