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Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts - Attorney General Opinions, 1781-1875

.70 cu. ft. (2 boxes)

Opinions, 1781-1875, of the Attorney General for the Auditor of Public Accounts. The opinions are often written into letters or on notes. Virginia Attorney Generals include Edmund Randolph (1776-1786), James Innes (1786-1796), Robert Brooke (1796-1800), Philip Norborne Nicholas (1800-1819), John Robertson (1819-1834), Sidney Smith Baxter (1834-1852), Willis Perry Bocock (1852-1857), John Randolph Tucker (1857-1865), James Craig Taylor (1870-1874), and Raleigh Travers Daniel (1874-1877). Topics include: pay for militia and military; salary of Penitentiary keeper; sale of delinquent lands; appropriations for Virginia Military Institute; court costs; right to tax persons employed and residing in Harpers Ferry; railroad taxes; acts regulating Life Insurance Companies; payment for slaves condemned to sale and transportation; tax exemptions of theatrical performances; taxation for the manufacturers of ale or beer; if merchants can sell apple or peach barndy without an additional license; taxing circus performers; interest on bank dividends; taxes on emancipated slaves; sale of liquor by physicians and apothecaries; taxation of penitentiary convicts; taxation of officers and employees of the Navy; taxation of Confederate officers; and funding of Treasury notes, among other topics.

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