A Resolution and an Order to Distribute Copies of the Land Office and Title Settlement Acts (June 23, 1779)

[23-26 June 1779

Ordered, That the public printer do forthwith print 150 copies of the act, "for settling and adjusting the titles of claimers to unpatented lands under the former and present government previous to the establishment of the Commonwealth's Land Office;" and also, 150 copies of the act, "for establishing a Land Office, and for settling the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands;" to be distributed by the members of the General Assembly among their respective counties.

Resolved, That the Governor be desired to transmit by the post one hundred copies of the act "for establishing a Land Office, and ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands," to the Virginia delegates in Congress, and desire them to take the most speedy and effectual measures for dispersing and publishing the same in the different States.