Petition seeking Improvement of Navigation of James River at Richmond.

• imprint_number: 1815.068
• title: To the honorable the Assembly ... petitioners ...
• sequence_number: 68
• year: 1815
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Citizens & Inhabitants of Richmond.
• notes: Petitioners asked for a widening and deepening of James River channel leading to Rockett's Landing (eastern-most Richmond) to allow larger vessels to bring goods up the river to the capitol; the Assembly assented, incorporating a company to undertake the work (Chap. LIII of Acts of December 1815 Assembly).
  Only known copy, held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia, lacks colophon; item has a clear Richmond focus, and so a certain Richmond origin, but the issuing press cannot be determined from this document alone.
  
  
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