Board of Public Works Reports on Stocks and Richmond Dock Company.

• imprint_number: 1821.022
• title: Governor’s letter enclosing two reports from the board of public works; one touching the collection of dividends on stock: and the other relating to the Richmond dock company. Printed by order of the house of delegates.
• sequence_number: 22
• year: 1821
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
• author: Virginia. Board of Public Works.
• notes: Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was ordered on February 8, 1821, to print 250 copies of these two reports 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.
  Swem recorded item twice, once from the order to print (9213) and again from a copy in the Library of Congress (9274); entry number reported here corresponds to the printed item.
  
  
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