Substitute for Bill to Amend Act establishing a Penitentiary House.

• imprint_number: 1821.016
• title: Substitute proposed by Mr. Chamberlayne for the bill, to reduce into one act the several acts and parts of acts for establishing a public jail and penitentiary house, and for the punishment of crimes.
• sequence_number: 16
• year: 1821
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
• author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• notes: Alternative proposed to the Bill to Amend Act establishing a Penitentiary House (1821.011) which was offered on January 18, 1821.
  Title lacks imprint; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was ordered on January 29, 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; the absence of evidence for which press he assigned this item, so making him the only tradesman identified with this title.
  
  
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