1814.122: Report on State of Bank of Virginia and Farmers’ Bank of Virginia.
Published: 1814
Full Title: Report of committee on the state of the Bank of Virginia, and the Farmers’ bank of Virginia.
Author: Virginia. General Assembly.
Place Issued: Richmond
Issuing Press: Deborah W. L. Pleasants
Description: Unrecorded
Notes
No copy known extant; the House ordered 250 copies of this bill printed on November 18, 1814, for the use of the Assembly in its deliberations. Both banks had been accused of refusing to exchange their bank notes for species; report resulted in legislation that further regulated their operations (Chap. XXV of Acts of October 1814 Assembly). Long-time public printer, Samuel Pleasants, died six days before this session opened; the Assembly chose to continue employing his press for most of this session, granting his widow, Deborah W. L. Pleasants, her husband's formal title until January 1, 1815; thereafter, Thomas Ritchie, the printer to the Senate, assumed that larger role, with his protégé, Thomas Burling, taking on his old assignment; this division of labor meant that most of the session's printing was completed at the Argus Office, with Ritchie picking up the load with the start of the new year, just three weeks work; still, the daily House journal was issued from the Argus Office for the duration of the Assembly. This work distribution informs the attribution made here.
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