Abstract of Prisoners Received into the Penitentiary.

• imprint_number: 1805.075
• title: Abstract of prisoners received into the jail & penitentiary house … Alexr. Quarrier. William W. Hening, Esq. chairman of the committee.
• sequence_number: 75
• year: 1805
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Samuel Pleasants
• author: Virginia. General Assembly. Committee on the Penitentiary.
• notes: Apparently a reprinting for public distribution of "Document No.1" of the documentary set (1805.072) ordered printed by the House of Delegates on December 26, 1805. This Assembly undertook a broad investigation into the operation of the state penitentiary at Richmond via a select committee chaired by Hening; its work had been completed when Hening accepted a position on the Council of State on January 3, 1806.
  
  
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