Commission to Collect Donations for Monument to Washington.

• imprint_number: 1817.037
• title: Council Chamber, Richmond, April 4th, 1817. Sir, In pursuance of a resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia passed the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen ... James P. Preston.
• sequence_number: 37
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
• author: Preston, James Patton (1774-1843), governor.
• notes: Commission form for appointing commissioners in each county to solicit and collect funds for a monument in memory of George Washington to be erected on the Capitol Square; process led eventually to the erection of Thomas Crawford's equestrian statute there.
  Only known copies, held by the Virginia Historical Society, lack colophons; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was paid for printing copies of this commission form, so the attribution to the partnership then conducting his press.
  
  
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