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The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder books record all matters brought before the court when it as in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else.  A wide variety of information is found in order books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis original register was also created by the City of Charlottesville Corporation, Juvenile and Police courts.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Albemarle County was created by a statue of 1774 and formed from Goochland County.  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The act specified that \"every clerk of the court of each county and corporation shall keep a register of full and accurate descriptive lists of every person convicted in his own or any other court of record of his county or corporation, of felony or other infamous offence, and a duly certified and attested copy of any such descriptive list may be used as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any question of identity. Such registers shall be kept written up, well indexed, and shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n","In addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks.  The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books record all matters brought before the court when it as in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else.  A wide variety of information is found in order books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","This original register was also created by the City of Charlottesville Corporation, Juvenile and Police courts.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Register of Marriages and Convicts, 1888-1928.  Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records.  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Search the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwehave/local/lost/\"\u003eLost Records Localities Database\u003c/extref\u003e found at the Library of Virginia web site.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Albemarle County Court Records and Marriage Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm\"","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Database  found at the Library of Virginia web site.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Register of Marriages and Convicts, 1888-1928, is divided into two separate sections.  The first section, pages 1-6, covers a register of marriages recorded in the county from 1888-1899.  These pages include the date of the marriage license, the date of the marriage, the names and ages of the bride and groom and the name of the person giving consent.  The second section, pages 7-17 and 40-49, is a register of convicts from 1894-1928.  This list is comprehensive and includes the convict's name and/or alias, place of residence, color (race), height, weight, eye color, hair color, age, distinguishing marks, occupation, crime committed, date of crime, court and term of court, order book and page number of conviction, punishment and whether pardoned for crime.  Individuals with prior convictions are found on pages 40-46.  In addition, there is a list of persons convicted in 1907 pasted on the inside of the front cover of the volume.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) 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Alexandria was incorporated as a town in 1779 and was ceded to the federal government in 1789 for use as part of the site of the new national capital. It officially became part of the District of Columbia in 1801 and was renamed Alexandria County by Congress. By an act of 9 July 1846, Alexandria County, including the town of Alexandria, was retroceded to Virginia, which took jurisdiction over the area on 20 March 1847. The town was incorporated as a city in 1852. It was enlarged by annexations from Alexandria (now Arlington County) and Fairfax Counties in 1915 and 1929 and from Fairfax County alone in 1952 and 1973. The county is named for John Alexander, an early owner of the tract in Fairfax County on which the town was located.\n","During the 1869-1870 session, the General Assembly passed an \"Act to Secure Identification of Persons Convicted of Criminal Offences.\" On 2 November 1870, the act was approved. The act specified that \"every clerk of the court of each county and corporation shall keep a register of full and accurate descriptive lists of every person convicted in his own or any other court of record of his county or corporation, of felony or other infamous offence, and a duly certified and attested copy of any such descriptive list may be used as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any question of identity. Such registers shall be kept written up, well indexed, and shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n","In addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks. The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order/minute books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","The original records, from which this volume was compiled, were created by the Corporation and Mayor's Courts. The Corporation Court, in jurisdictions incorporated as independent cities, was the town/city equivalent of the County Court. It was presided over by Justices under the Mayor of the town/city and heard civil and criminal matters. Civil actions on appeal and criminal matters resulting in conviction were sent to the next higher court (Corporation Court to Circuit Court) for further action. The Mayor's Court, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is a \"court in which the mayor sits with the powers of a police judge or committing magistrate in respect to offenses committed within the city (e.g. traffic or ordinance violations) and sometimes with civil jurisdiction in small causes.\" Activities typically included qualifying the Councilmen and officers of the Corporation, issuing warrants for violations of local ordinances, hearing evidence against those who violated local ordinances; keeping a record of executions issued by the court and of fines and fees paid.\n","Additional City of Alexandria Court Records can be found on microfilm at the Libray of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Alexandria (Va.) 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The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order/minute books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","The original records, from which this volume was compiled, were created by the Corporation and Mayor's Courts. The Corporation Court, in jurisdictions incorporated as independent cities, was the town/city equivalent of the County Court. It was presided over by Justices under the Mayor of the town/city and heard civil and criminal matters. 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The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order/minute books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","The original records, from which this volume was compiled, were created by the Corporation and Mayor's Courts. The Corporation Court, in jurisdictions incorporated as independent cities, was the town/city equivalent of the County Court. It was presided over by Justices under the Mayor of the town/city and heard civil and criminal matters. 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According to this legislation, the school's thirteen trustees were mandated to build a schoolhouse to be used for the benefit and education of the poor children of Gloucester County. From the sale of the glebes (church-owned land) of Abingdon, Ware and Petsworth parishes and money from the sale of slaves, the proceeds would provide for the construction of a poorhouse and a work house for paupers--to provide for the county's poor. A steward would be hired by the trustees to oversee the facilities and keep the buildings in good repair. Trustees were also empowered to bind out poor children. As this Act of the Assembly states: \"When the trustees shall certify to the court that the buildings are ready, the laws concerning the overseers of the poor shall stand repeled with respect to the county.\"  All matters regarding the poor would now be handled by the Gloucester Charity School.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy 1849, the Charity School was comprised on 30 acres of land called \"the Poorhouse.\" The school was located five miles northwest of the courthouse. The rest of the land, approximately 574 additional acres, was taken care of by short-term lease tenants. The excess funds generated were then used by the school trustees to care for the poor or were loaned out to local citizens who had to post unencumbered real estate as collateral. In August 1867, F. J. Massey, the military commissioner who had oversight of Gloucester County informed the county's court justices of their need to provide for \"the indigent people\" previously entrusted to the care of the Freedmen's Bureau--essentially providing food and clothing to former slaves. Massey's letter was forwarded by the county justices to the trustees of the Gloucester County Charity School, who were instructed to take action.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn March 1886, the General Assembly authorized the trustees fo the Gloucester County Charity School to sell the Free School Land. The land was sold at a public auction in October 1886. A new deed of conveyance was written in 1910 conferring the sale of the land. The Gloucester County Charity School, according to the records in possession of the Library of Virginia, operated until 1922. According to information found on a website entiled \" The History of Peasley Middle School\" by James V. Morgan, the legislature turned over all the remaining funds to a newly organized Peasley School Board. The Board called in all outstanding bonds and the money received was transferred to the remaining balance on the Botetourt School Building, now known as the Kenney Building.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Gloucester County was formed from York County in 1651.  The county was named probably for the English county, although it may also have been intended to honor Henry, duke of Gloucester, the third son of King Charles I.  \n","On January 25th, 1814, the General Assembly of Virginia enacted special legislation that established the Gloucester Charity School. According to this legislation, the school's thirteen trustees were mandated to build a schoolhouse to be used for the benefit and education of the poor children of Gloucester County. From the sale of the glebes (church-owned land) of Abingdon, Ware and Petsworth parishes and money from the sale of slaves, the proceeds would provide for the construction of a poorhouse and a work house for paupers--to provide for the county's poor. A steward would be hired by the trustees to oversee the facilities and keep the buildings in good repair. Trustees were also empowered to bind out poor children. As this Act of the Assembly states: \"When the trustees shall certify to the court that the buildings are ready, the laws concerning the overseers of the poor shall stand repeled with respect to the county.\"  All matters regarding the poor would now be handled by the Gloucester Charity School.\n","By 1849, the Charity School was comprised on 30 acres of land called \"the Poorhouse.\" The school was located five miles northwest of the courthouse. The rest of the land, approximately 574 additional acres, was taken care of by short-term lease tenants. The excess funds generated were then used by the school trustees to care for the poor or were loaned out to local citizens who had to post unencumbered real estate as collateral. In August 1867, F. J. Massey, the military commissioner who had oversight of Gloucester County informed the county's court justices of their need to provide for \"the indigent people\" previously entrusted to the care of the Freedmen's Bureau--essentially providing food and clothing to former slaves. Massey's letter was forwarded by the county justices to the trustees of the Gloucester County Charity School, who were instructed to take action.\n","In March 1886, the General Assembly authorized the trustees fo the Gloucester County Charity School to sell the Free School Land. The land was sold at a public auction in October 1886. A new deed of conveyance was written in 1910 conferring the sale of the land. The Gloucester County Charity School, according to the records in possession of the Library of Virginia, operated until 1922. According to information found on a website entiled \" The History of Peasley Middle School\" by James V. Morgan, the legislature turned over all the remaining funds to a newly organized Peasley School Board. The Board called in all outstanding bonds and the money received was transferred to the remaining balance on the Botetourt School Building, now known as the Kenney Building.\n","All records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884.)  Gloucester County (Va.) Reel 80, Local government records collection, Gloucester County Court Records.  The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Gloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884.)  Gloucester County (Va.) Reel 80, Local government records collection, Gloucester County Court Records.  The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGloucester County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities.  Additional Gloucester County Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Database\u003c/extref\u003e found at the Library of Virginia's web site.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn researching this subject, there is a volume in the Library of Virginia's collection entitiled \"With Reverence for the Past\", published in 2001, by Martha W. McCartney.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional information on the subject may be found in \"Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1814\", Chapter 56, pages 117-119.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional information on the subject may be found on the Internet in an article by James V. Morgan entitled, \"The History of Peasley Middle School.\"\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available at Virginia Memory.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor more information and a listing of lost records localities see \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/rn30_lostrecords.pdf\"\u003eLost Records research note\u003c/extref\u003e. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n","Related Material\n","Related Material\n","Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Gloucester County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities.  Additional Gloucester County Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Database  found at the Library of Virginia's web site.\n","In researching this subject, there is a volume in the Library of Virginia's collection entitiled \"With Reverence for the Past\", published in 2001, by Martha W. McCartney.\n","Additional information on the subject may be found in \"Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1814\", Chapter 56, pages 117-119.\n","Additional information on the subject may be found on the Internet in an article by James V. Morgan entitled, \"The History of Peasley Middle School.\"\n","See the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory.\n","For more information and a listing of lost records localities see  Lost Records research note . \n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884) are a series of volumes dealing with the care and education of the poor in Gloucester County, Virginia. The volumes contain information on local individuals and businesses that provided services or food to the poor, who the trustees and officers of the school were and the names of local residents that were permitted to take out loans. A few of the volumes contain loose papers as well. These volumes provide an excellent overview of how the economic, social and educational life of the county was impacted in the period before public education, the establishment of a banking system in the county and at a time when Virginians, by and large, were very poor during the post-Civil War reconstruction period. Due to their historical content, these records are rare in nature.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook is property of Edward B. S. Cary, Treasurer\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Gloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884) are a series of volumes dealing with the care and education of the poor in Gloucester County, Virginia. The volumes contain information on local individuals and businesses that provided services or food to the poor, who the trustees and officers of the school were and the names of local residents that were permitted to take out loans. A few of the volumes contain loose papers as well. These volumes provide an excellent overview of how the economic, social and educational life of the county was impacted in the period before public education, the establishment of a banking system in the county and at a time when Virginians, by and large, were very poor during the post-Civil War reconstruction period. Due to their historical content, these records are rare in nature.\n","Book is property of Edward B. S. Cary, Treasurer\n"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eUse microfilm copy, Gloucester County (Va.) 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The county was named probably for the English county, although it may have been intended to honor Henry, duke of Gloucester, the third son of King Charles I.\n","During the 1869-1870 session, the General Assembly passed an \"Act to Secure Identification of Persons Convicted of Criminal Offences.\" On 2 November 1870, the act was approved. The act specified that \"every clerk of the court of each county and corporation shall keep a register of full and accurate descriptive lists of every person convicted in his own or any other court of record of his county or corporation, of felony or other infamous offence, and a duly certified and attested copy of any such descriptive list may be used as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any question of identity. Such registers shall be kept written up, well indexed, and shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n","In addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks. The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order/mintute books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","This original register was created by the County and Circuit Courts.\n","All records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.","Additional Gloucester County Court Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm\"","See the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory.\n","For more information and a listing of lost records localities see  Lost Records research note . \n","Gloucester County (Va.) 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The act specified that \"every clerk of the court of each county and corporation shall keep a register of full and accurate descriptive lists of every person convicted in his own or any other court of record of his county or corporation, of felony or other infamous offence, and a duly certified and attested copy of any such descriptive list may be used as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any question of identity. Such registers shall be kept written up, well indexed, and shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks. The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. 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The act specified that \"every clerk of the court of each county and corporation shall keep a register of full and accurate descriptive lists of every person convicted in his own or any other court of record of his county or corporation, of felony or other infamous offence, and a duly certified and attested copy of any such descriptive list may be used as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any question of identity. Such registers shall be kept written up, well indexed, and shall be open to public inspection at reasonable hours. The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n","In addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks. The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Order books and/or Minute books record all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. A wide variety of information is found in order/mintute books--including individuals convicted of felonies.\n","This original register was created by the County and Circuit Courts.\n","All records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire in Richmond on 3 April 1865, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGloucester County (Va.) 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