To the honorable the speaker and members of the House of Delegates. : The petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of [blank] humbly represents--That the law incorporating a company for the purpose of clearing and improving the navigation of James River ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 7673.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James River Company (Richmond, Va.).

James River (Va.)--Navigation.

James River (Va.).

Genre:

Broadsides.

Memorials (Legal)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

The petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of [blank] humbly represents

Place of Publication:

[Petersburg, Va.?] : [publisher not identified], [1804]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"Your petitioners pray that a law may pass, compelling the directors of the James River Company within a given time, to communicate their canal with tide-water in the manner expresly [sic] declared in the act of incorporation."

The original, held by the Virginia State Library, is dated Dec. 6, 1804, in ms., and signed by forty-one inhabitants of Chesterfield County.

Place of publication suggested by Shaw & Shoemaker.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 7673).

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