Imprint Record

Report and Resolutions of Maryland General Assembly on Potomac River.

• Imprint Number: 1821.029
• Title: [Governor’s letter with report and resolutions from the general assembly of Maryland].
• Sequence Number: 29
• Year: 1821
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Thomas Ritchie
• Author: Maryland. General Assembly.
• Notes: The Maryland Assembly passed resolutions on February 16, 1821, seeking to form a joint commission with Virginia to review the progress of the Potomac Company in their clearing navigation on the river, and to assess the direction of future improvements; Gov. Samuel Sprigg was required to inform Virginia governor Thomas Mann Randolph of the request.
  No copy known extant; Thomas Ritchie, the public printer, was ordered to print 250 copies of this report for the use of the Assembly on February 23, 1821; while Ritchie held an interest in press office of Daniel Trueheart & Samuel Cary at this time, he also regularly subcontracted public work to that of Samuel Shepherd & William Pollard; the absence of evidence for which press he assigned this item, so making him the only tradesman identified with this title.
  
  
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  • Thomas Ritchie

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