1To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 15 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday the General Assembly of this state pass’d an Act to call in the Continental & states money at Forty for One, and an order to give a better circulation to the New Currency no Continental money is to be issued in payment for any contract after the 20th March Next. The Tender Law is repealed —a Bill from the House of Delegates for the Confiscation of British property is now before the...