Excerpt from The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619, Vol. 12: Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight
Tut contents of this Volume are very interesting. Among the acts of 1785 and 1786, will be found, passed into laws, the most important bills, reported to the legislature in 1779, by the committee of revisors appointed by the act or1776.* At the ses sion of 1786, an act passed, appointing a committee to take into consideration such of the bills, contained in the revisnl, prepared and reported by the committee, appointed for that purpose, in the year 1776, as had not been enacted into lawsul This was super seded by the act of 1789, concerning a new edition of the laws, which was the foundation of the revisal of 1792.
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