Report of the Joint Committee on the Penitentiary ; Penitentiary.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Virginia. General Assembly. Joint Committee on the Penitentiary.
Imprint:	[Richmond, Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1832?]
Description:	1 online resource (2 volumes)
Language:	English
Series:	Doc. ; no. 28, 32 House document (Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates) ; 1832, no. 28, 32.
Subject:	Virginia Penitentiary. Prison industries -- Law and legislation -- Virginia. Prisons -- Finance -- Law and legislation -- Virginia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13437362

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Other uniform titles:	Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Virginia Penitentiary. Board of Directors. Penitentiary.
Notes:	Document no. 32 includes two resolutions by the House of Delegates, included for the board of directors; notes from a board of directors meeting on July 15th, 1831; and an "Opinion of the Attorney General," signed by John Robertson. Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed May 23, 2022).
Summary:	Report of the Joint Committee on the Penitentiary regarding the expediency of changing the method of selling prison manufactured goods by auction or placing them in commission stores. The committee also noted the advantage of job work, rather than the state expending money to manufacture and sell the goods. Also included was the proceeding of a board of directors meeting on July 15, 1831, in lieu of a minority report of the board.

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