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4533. LAW, Virginia's Revised Code.—[further continued].

In giving this account of
the laws of which I was myself the mover and
draughtsman, I, by no means, mean to claim to
myself the merit of obtaining their passage. I
had many occasional and strenuous coadjutors
in debate, and one, most steadfast, able and
zealous; who was himself a host. This was
George Mason.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 40. Ford ed., i, 56.
(1821)