Bill arranging Senatorial Districts and Equalizing the Land Tax.

• imprint_number: 1817.020
• title: [Bill for arranging the counties into districts for election of senators, and for equalizing the land tax].
• sequence_number: 20
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Bill represents the compromise forged during the November 1816 Assembly over the issues raised by the Staunton Convention; this bill reorganized the Virginia Senate districts into a more equitable arrangement while granting tidewater counties some relief on land taxes.
  No copy known extant; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was ordered on February 1, 1817, to print 250 copies of this bill for the use of the Assembly.
  
  
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