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Commissioner Barton's Report #1 discusses the estate of Alexander Vass, deceased, vs. the estate of James Hunter, deceased. In it Barton evaluates the fees for medicines and services provided by Vass, a local physician. James Carmichael is called upon to give testimony. Carmichael claims it is customary when physicians practice in families by the year, for a stipulated sum, a separate and distinct charge is always made for small pox inoculations. [Courtesy of the Fredericksburg Circuit Court]
