Ordinances Of The Corporation Of Morgantown With The Charter Annexed

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First edition

Morgantown, VA : Virginia Weekly Star office, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. First public printing of the revised 1860 charter, with four pages of newly drafted municipal laws regulating gambling, maintenance of privies, selling on the Sabbath, keeping of hogs, detonation of fire-crackers, etc. The first printing of the municipal code for Morgantown. Though the settlement was founded in 1778, and officially incorporated by the Virginia Assembly in 1838,

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