Bill to Amend Act establishing a Penitentiary House (1).
- imprint_number: 1821.011
- title: [A bill to amend the act entitled "an act, to reduce into one act, the several acts and parts of acts for establishing a penitentiary house, and for the punishment of crimes," passed March the sixth, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen].
- sequence_number: 11
- year: 1821
- place_issued: Richmond
- issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
- author: Virginia. General Assembly.
- notes: Only known copy, held by the Library of Congress, lacks colophon; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was ordered on January 18, 1821, to print 250 copies of this bill for the use of the Assembly; while Ritchie held an interest in press office of Daniel Trueheart & Samuel Cary at this time, he also regularly subcontracted public work to that of Samuel Shepherd & William Pollard; absence of evidence for which press he assigned this item, so making him the only person identified with this title.
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