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Ordinances passed at a Convention held at the town of Richmond, in the colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775.

Title: Ordinances passed at a Convention held at the town of Richmond, in the colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775.
Author: Virginia. Convention, July 17, 1775.
Publication: Williamsburg, Printed by Alexander Purdie [1775]

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Description

51 p.; 27 x 21 cm.

Subject

Virginia. Militia
Law > Virginia
Militia > Virginia
Virginia > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Sources
United States > History > Revolution > Military > Troops > Virginia
United States > History > Revolution > State and local affairs > Virginia

Note

Peyton Randolph, president.
Printed in "The statutes at large; being a collection of all the laws of Virginia ... By William Walter Hening ... Richmond [etc.] 1819-23." vol. ix, 1821, p. [9]-74.
An ordinance for providing arms and ammunitition for the use of this colony.--An ordinance to provide for paying the expense of the delegates from this colony to the general Congress.

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Sabin
Evans
Swem

Contents

[An ordinance for raising two regiments of militia]--An ordinance for the better government of the forces to be raised and employed in the service of the colony and dominion of Virginia.--An ordinance appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony.--An ordinance for regulating the election of delegates and ascertaining their allowances, and also for regulating the election of committee-men in the several counties and corporations within this colony, and for other purposes therein named.--An ordinance for appointing commissioners to settle the accounts of the militia lately drawn out into actual service, and for making provision to pay the same, as well as the expense of raising and providing for the forces and minute-men directed to be embodied for the defence of this colony.--

Call Number

*KD 1775 (Virginia (Colony). Convention, July 17, 1775. Ordinances passed at a Convention)

LCCN

21011695

OCLC

6411828

Author

Virginia. Convention, July 17, 1775.

Title

Ordinances passed at a Convention held at the town of Richmond, in the colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775.

Imprint

Williamsburg, Printed by Alexander Purdie [1775]

Indexed In:

Sabin 100013

Evans 14594

Swem 22668

Local Note

Autograph signature of Thomas Jefferson on t.-p.; ms. chapter and paragraph numbers in his hand and his private mark at sig. I, p. 33.

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Peyton, Randolph, 1721-1775.

Virginia. Committee of Safety.

Research Call Number

*KD 1775 (Virginia (Colony). Convention, July 17, 1775. Ordinances passed at a Convention)

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