House Report on the Public Debt.

• imprint_number: 1788.003
• title: In the House of Delegates, Monday, 7th of January, 1788. On a motion made, ordered that the following abstract and statement of the public revenue, and of the debts of this commonwealth as prepared by Mr. William Ronald one of the committee appointed to amend the laws of revenue, which has been laid before the House, and is approved of by them, be published for the information of the people; and that 2000 copies thereof be forthwith printed at public expence ...
• sequence_number: 3
• year: 1788
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Nicolson
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. Committee on Laws of Revenue.
• notes: Report lacks printer credit; assigned to Thomas Nicolson in the order to print separately from the session laws. During this Assembly, the responsibility for printing the session's records was split among the three Richmond presses headed by John Dixon, Augustine Davis, and Thomas Nicolson; Dixon was officially the public printer, having become the sole holder of that office on the death of his partner John Hunter Holt in June 1787, but his office was plagued by production delays, hence Nicolson's assignment here.
  
  
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