Letter of Senator William Branch Giles to the House of Delegates.
- imprint_number: 1812.113
- title: Nov. 26, 1812. To the honorable the speaker, and gentlemen of the House of Delegates of Virginia. …
- sequence_number: 113
- year: 1812
- place_issued: Virginia
- issuing_press: Uncertain
- author: Giles, William Branch (1762-1830), senator.
- notes: Swem inadvertently recorded this item twice (8490 & 8562); Giles wrote here to protest the resolutions of the 1811-12 Assembly that censured him and fellow senator Richard Brent for voting to extend the charter of the Bank of the United States, in disobedience to instructions issued by the 1810-11 Assembly, and that asserted the legislature's constitutional right to instruct the state's U.S. senators being the proper representatives of the state itself.
Title lacks imprint; Giles provided a dateline of Washington, Nov. 26, 1812, some four days before the 1812-13 session commenced, leading to the wide-spread attribution of this item to an unnamed Washington press; however, it could just as easily issued from an Alexandria or Richmond one, as was a common practice of other congressional representatives while in Washington; that indeterminacy entails the inclusion of this particular title in this Index.
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