Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia 1849-1850 & 1850-1851 [2 vols.] ~ Legislative History, Law, Legislature, Government

Title: [2 vols.]
>> Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed at the Extra and Regular Sessions 1849 & 1850, and In the Seventy-Third and Seventy-Fourth Years of The Commonwealth
>> Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed at the Session on 1850-51, in the Seventy-Fifth Year of the Commonwealth

Publication: Richmond: William F. Ritchie, Public Printer, 1850 [&] 1851

Description: Bound in marbled boards with leather spines; gilt lettered leather spine labels. Both volumes are worn, but intact. The later volume has cracked hinges, boards still attached. Foxing to pages. Early owners' inscriptions on endpapers and flyleaf. Each volume provides a topical index. 293 & 263 pages. 9.5 x 6 inches.

Includes acts pertaining to the Collection of Revenue, Public Debt, Removal of Colored People, Jurisdiction of Sand Shoal Island, the Calling of a People's Convention, the Library at Lewisburg, Lunatic Asylums, Volunteer Militias, New Counties (Raleigh, Wyoming, Craig, Upshur, Pleasants), Building of Jails, Circuit Courts, Habeas Corpus, Sheriffs, School Quotas, the Lewis County Seminary, School Taxes, Banks & Savings Banks, the Killing of Crows, Alexandria Canal, several Railroads, Public Roads, Bridges, Plank Roads, Turnpikes, Navigation & Steamboat Companies, Wharves, Academies, Insurance Companies, Water & Gas Companies, Manufacturing & Mining Companies, Hospitals, Cemetery Companies, Towns, Private Property, Claims, Divorces, Free Negreos, County Courthouses, Stealing Children, Fugitive Slaves, Free Schools, and more.

Virginia's General Assembly was established in 1776 with the ratification of the Virginia Constitution.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Keywords: history, government, state legislature, House of Delegates, Senate, acts, resolutions,