Virginia Assembly amends act on gouging (1772)

The Virginia Assembly's amendment of an act describing punishments for gouging is recorded in the legacy data as occurring on February 12, 1772, but no supplied passage documents the amendment itself. The passages establish only that the colonial legislature was the General Assembly, governing with a colonial governor until 1775/1776, and that it met in the colonial Capitol in Williamsburg from 1705.

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Background and detail

Background. The colonial legislature of Virginia was the General Assembly, which governed in conjunction with a colonial governor from 1619 to 1775/1776. It met in Jamestown until 1699, then at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, and from 1705 in the colonial Capitol building.

The 1772 Amendment. The event under scope is the Assembly's amendment of an act describing punishments for gouging, dated February 12, 1772 according to the legacy record. No supplied passage describes this amendment, its terminology, or its enactment, so its content cannot be sourced here.

Location Considerations. The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond was designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 and expanded in 1904, so it cannot have housed the 1772 Assembly. In 1772 the legislature met in the colonial Capitol in Williamsburg, which it had used from 1705.

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