House Resolution on Paper Money.

• imprint_number: 1786.024
• title: [In the house of delegates, Wednesday, the 1st of November, 1786. ,,, it is the opinion of this committee, that … an emission of paper money would be unjust, impolitic, and destructive of public and private confidence and of that virtue which is the basis of a republican government …]
• sequence_number: 24
• year: 1786
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Dixon & Holt
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.
• notes: Only extant copy in Library of Congress missing; not filmed by Early American Imprints series.
  Title here taken from the House journal text; Swem misidentifies day of week as Tuesday.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; the firm of Dixon & Holt was appointed as the public printer in June 1786, succeeding that of Dunlap & Hayes, who were dismissed on May 5, 1786, as a result of their perceived negligence (tardy production of Assembly records).
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • John Hunter Holt

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