Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1796
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G. Wythe to Jefferson
The general assembly, at their late session, enacted that a collection of the laws public and private, relative to lands, shall be printed, those who are appointed to perform the work, despair of doing it, without your aid. If you will permit your copies to be sent hither, I will be answerable for their restitution in the same order & when they shall be received. Be
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be so good as let me know, if the copies may be obtained. In what manner they may be forwarded, with least inconvenience. Farewell. Richmond 1 of january , 1796.