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<p>This collection contains the license to practice law issued to John Douglas Simms on 10 October 1808. It was signed by Archibald Stuart, Robert White Jr., and [? Holmes], judges of the General Court of Virginia.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <persname rules="dacs" source="local">Simms, John Douglas, 1788-1844</persname>
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