Speech by George Hay in Support of Repeal of Usury Laws.

• imprint_number: 1817.030
• title: Speech, delivered in the Legislature of Virginia, in the session of 1816-17, in support of a bill to repeal all the laws concerning usury. With some supplemental remarks.
• sequence_number: 30
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Shepherd & Pollard
• author: Hay, George (1765-1830).
• notes: The bill that Hay advocated (1816.163) was introduced in December 1816, amended by the House of delegates, then tabled without further action; here, Hay made a public appeal for reconsideration of the matter in the succeeding Assembly of December 1817.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • William Pollard
  • Samuel Shepherd

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