Petition seeking Circulation of Private Bank Notes.

• imprint_number: 1805.076
• title: To the honorable the Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates ... memorial ... citizens ... county of [blank] ...
• sequence_number: 76
• year: 1805
• place_issued: Virginia
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Sundry Inhabitants of Virginia.
• notes: Petitioners asked that an act of the December 1804 Assembly that prohibited the circulation of notes issued by private banks be repealed; the request was rejected on January 9, 1806.
  Sheet lacks colophon; multiple copies of this petition were considered by the Committee for Courts of Justice from Augusta, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Shenandoah Counties; that breadth indicates possible publication in Staunton, Fredericksburg, Alexandria, or Leesburg, precluding attribution to any specific place or press without more evidence.
  
  
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