Imprint Record

Act of Assembly respecting Election of Electors.

• Imprint Number: 1808.035
• Title: [Act of assembly respecting the election of electors].
• Sequence Number: 35
• Year: 1808
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Samuel Pleasants
• Author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• Notes: No copy known extant; Swem recorded this title from voucher to Pleasants. who was paid on July 21, 1808, for printing 320 copies for statewide distribution; item was an enclosure for the set of instructions for conducting the election of presidential electors that fall (1808.034) sent to the superintendents of elections; content apparently covered the January 1804 act (Chap. CXII, Acts of December 1803 Assembly) that amended a January 1800 statute (Chap. I, Acts of November 1799 Assembly) to bring it into conformance with the 12th Amendment to the U.S. constitution; that "General Ticket Law" was circulated as well in October (1808.051).
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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