Petition seeking Lottery to support the Norfolk Academy.

• imprint_number: 1806.064
• title: To the honorable the Senate and House of Delegates ... the trustees of Norfolk Academy and a number of inhabitants of the borough of Norfolk ...
• sequence_number: 64
• year: 1806
• place_issued: Norfolk
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Sundry Inhabitants of Norfolk.
• notes: Only surviving copy, held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia, has a manuscript date of December 6, 1806, reflecting the date it was submitted to the Assembly; the petition was rejected that same day, as had become standard practice with private lottery requests.
  Sheet lacks colophon; while evidently a Norfolk imprint, item does not indicate the particular press issuing this sheet, so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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