Amended Report of Committee respecting the Baptist memorial.

• imprint_number: 1796.052
• title: [Report and resolutions, as amended, concerning memorials of the Baptist General Committee, and of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church relating to contest for ownership of glebes, churches and chapels belonging to the established church].
• sequence_number: 52
• year: 1796
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Augustine Davis
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Dated: "In the House of Delegates, Wednesday, December the 14th, 1796." This title marks the start of a debate over the fate of the glebe lands formerly owned by the Anglican church and now claimed by the state's Episcopal diocese; that debate ended with an act passed in January 1802 which designated those lands as state-owned property for sale as surplus.
  Reported title supplied by the catalogue record of the only known copy held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia; Davis was ordered to print 2000 copies of the report for state-wide distribution to generate public comment.
  
  
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