PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04845::A Guide to the Publications from the Virginia Land Office, 1913-1923)//EN" "vi04845.xml" A Guide to the Publications from the Virginia Land Office, 1913-1923 LOI 129 Claire Radcliffe Library of Virginia © 2015 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from Paper by Claire Radcliffe, 6 October 2015 Description is in English A Guide to the Publications from the Virginia Land Office, 1913-1923 A Collection in the Library of Virginia LOI 129

Library of Virginia 2015 Daphne S. Gentry Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Publications from the Virginia Land Office, 1913-1923 LOI 129 5 folders English Land Office. Virginia Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Virginia. Land Office. Publications from the Virginia Land Office, 1913-1923. Accession Land Office inventory entry no. 129, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Archives Branch, Richmond, VA 23219.

Acquisition Information

Accession LOI 129 transferred by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1948.

Historical Information

The act which established the previous Land Office passed the General Assembly on 22 June 1779. The register was the head of the Office and was appointed by joint ballot of both houses of the legislature.

Scope and Content

These records contain publications from various states, mainly rules and regulations for the enforcement of weights and measures laws of individual states and instructions for weights and measures officials in the discharge of their duties. Included also are two annual reports of the Department of Public Safety in Richmond, Virginia. Publications are available for the cities of Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis, as well as the Federal Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Virginia. Land Office Virginia. Superintendent of Weights and Measures. Subjects: Weights and measures -- Law and legislation. Genre and Form Terms: Annual reports. Instructions. Regulations. State government records -- Virginia. Contents List Publications, 1910-1923. Extent: 5 folders. Chicago, Illinois, 1915. 1

Consists of a printed pamphlet entitled "Ordinances Governing the Department of Weights and Measures," published in Chicago in 1915. Compiled and arranged by W. F. Cluett, Chief Deputy.

Detroit, Michigan, 1920. 2

Consists of a printed pamphlet entitled "An Ordinance Relating to Weights and Measures," issued by the Detroit Police Department.

Indianapolis, Indiana, c. 1913. 3

Consists of a printed pamphlet entitled "Laws and Ordinances Governing the Department of Weights and Measures of the City of Indianapolis," compiled by Chief Inspector Isidur Wolfson.

Richmond, Virginia, 1919-1923. 4

Consists of two Annual Reports of the Bureau of Weights and Measures of the City of Richmond for 1919 and 1922, published in 1920 and 1923 respectively.

Bureau of Standards, 1916-1920. 5

Consists of six items and four unique publications from the Department of Commerce, including circulars of the Bureau of Standards, technologic papers of the Bureau of Standards, and a publication from the Twelfth Annual Conference of Representatives from Various States, 1919.