Documents concerning the Penitentiary.

• imprint_number: 1805.074
• title: [Document no. 1. Abstract of prisoners in the penitentiary.—no. 2. Criminal charges from 1795 to 1805.—no. 3. Shewing the number of prisoners convicted for each crime, the number from each district, the number of years each was sentenced.—no. 4. Letter from Captain Quarrier showing number of public guard kept at the penitentiary. —no. 5. Letter from the superintendent of the penitentiary laid before the house by the governor].
• sequence_number: 74
• year: 1805
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Samuel Pleasants
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. Committee on the Penitentiary
• notes: No copies of the full set is known extant; Document No.1 was apparently reprinted for public distribution as a broadside (1805.073); the House of Delegates ordered Pleasants to print 250 copies of the report on December 26, 1805, for their use during deliberations; title taken from entry in Swem from order to print.
  
  
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  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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