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[[File:RichmondEnquirer24June1806p3Detail.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Detail from page three of the Richmond ''Enquirer'' for June 24, 1806, stating the the Virginia General Court will wear black arm bands for three months in memory of [[George Wythe]], who died on June 8.]]
A small item appears in the Richmond ''Enquirer'' for June 24, 1806,<ref>"[[Media:RichmondEnquirer24June1806p1p3.pdf|Virginia, June General Court, 1806]]," ''The Enquirer'' (Richmond, VA), June 24, 1806, 3.</ref> stating that the General Court of Virginia has elected to wear black arm bands for three months, in memory of [[George Wythe]], who [[Death of George Wythe|died on June 8th]].

==Article text, 24 June 1806==
===Page 3===

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VIRGINIA, JUNE GENERAL COURT, 1806.
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''In Testimony of the high respect of this Court for the eminent public services and veneration for the private virtues of GEORGE WYTHE, late Chancellor of the Richmond District:''

Resolved, ''That the members of this court will wear crape on the left arm for three months, as mourning.'' A Copy&mdash;Teste,

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WILSON ALLEN, C. G. C.<ref>"In his docket book for this term of court, [[St. George Tucker]] wrote: 'June 17th. John Brown esqr. resigned his office of Clerk of the General Court, and Mr. Wilson Allen, a young man well recommended, was appointed in his stead.' Docket Book, June 1797, [http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=7010 Tucker-Coleman Papers], Swem Library, College of William & Mary." Cited in ''The Papers of John Marshall,'' eds. William C. Stinchcombe, Charles T. Cullen, and Leslie Tobias, vol. 3, ''Correspondence and Papers, January 1796&mdash;December 1798'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 91.</ref>
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==See also==

*[[National Intelligencer, 15 December 1806]]
*[[Virginia Argus, 20 June 1806]]

==References==
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