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Description and Holding Information
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Comm. of Revisors. Report in 1776, 1784
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Reports of the Committee of Revisors appointed by the Virginia General Assembly, which was appointed in 1776 and submitted a report in June, 1784.
The committee, which included Thomas Jefferson, included a catalog which listed the bills which were revised by the committee in chapters. Topics
include elections, militia, insurrections, powers to the governor and council, establishing various boards, public offices, enlistment of soldiers and
sailors, wills, fraud, salaries, banks, pirates, livestock, taverns, public roads, establishment of public ferries, slaves, servants, aliens, trials,
guardians, apprentices, treason, forgery, riots, bribery, preventing the spread of small pox, quarantine of goods, general diffusion of knowledge, public
library, churches, disturbers of worship, annulling marriages, gaming, auctions, courts, licensing counsel, attorneys at law, and proctors, oaths of
office, sale of public offices, regulating proceedings in courts, trying slaves, suits involving foreigners, recovering money due, inland bills of
exchange, limitation of action, debtors, regulation of the commencement of the year, and rents. (Digitized from a microfilm copy of title originally held
by the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut).
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Title:
Report of the Committee of Revisors appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in MDCCLXXVI.
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OCLC Number:
1179520148
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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