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Hening's Statutes at Large
Original Author: William Waller Hening
Created: 1823
Medium: Book

Hening’s Statutes at Large, Volume 3, Page 139

William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619 (Richmond: Franklin Press, 1823), 3:139.

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