Imprint Record

Circular Letter of Council to County-Court Clerks, December 31, 1817.

  • Imprint Number: 1817.129
  • Title: Circular. Richmond, Council Chamber. December 31, 1817. Sir, I beg leave to call your attention to the instructions contained in the annexed advice of Council ... in transmitting recommendations of the court of fit and proper persons to be added to the commission of the peace. … William Robertson, c.c.
  • Sequence Number: 129
  • Year: 1817
  • Place Issued: Richmond
  • Issuing Press: Thomas Ritchie
  • Author: Virginia. Council of State.
  • Notes: A two-part circular letter, with the first part (top of page) concerns the recommendations solicited by the Council for augmenting the number of justices in each county; the second part (bottom of page) concerns issue of persons recommended as justices acting as such before commissions had been issued.
    Sheet lacks colophon; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was responsible for printing such circulars, so the attribution here to the partnership then conducting Ritchie's press.

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