Act Appointing Deputies to a Constitutional Convention.

• imprint_number: 1786.025
• title: An act for appointing deputies from this commonwealth to a convention proposed to be held in the city of Philadelphia in May next, for the purpose of revising the fœderal Constitution.
• sequence_number: 25
• year: 1786
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Dixon & Holt
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Enacted on November 23, 1786; passed in the House on November 9th.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; erroneously attributed to press of Dunlap & Hayes by both Evans and Swem; the firm of Dixon & Holt had been 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).
  Act is reprinted as Chap. VIII of the Acts of October 1786 in Hening's Statutes (XII: 256).
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • John Hunter Holt

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