1George Mason to Virginia Delegates, 3 and 20 April 1781 (Madison Papers)
were desirous of giving Great Britain an impolitic & undue [pre]ferrence, or it wou’d fall partly upon both. I got a Bill passed, a [Yea]r or two ago, to this Purpose, in the Virginia House of Delegates; but it [wa]s rejected in the Senate, for no other Reason, that I cou’d learn, but that it was in Vain for Virginia to make such a Law, unless similar Measures were adopted by the...
2Instruction to Virginia Delegates in re Peace Negotiations, [17 and 19 December] 1782 (Madison Papers)
This resolution of the Virginia House of Delegates was referred on 17 December to the Senate, which concurred two days later (
For John Beckley, clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates, see
4Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 19 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
On 27 December 1782 the Virginia House of Delegates agreed to reimburse Pollock with $30,000 in three annual installments, “and the balance in certificates, payable in four years from the date thereof:
5Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 9 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 4. The clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates was John Beckley (Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1776–1955
On 22 May 1783 the Virginia House of Delegates referred to the Committee of Commerce the letter of 13 May from the delegates in Congress to Governor Benjamin Harrison (
7Instruction to Virginia Delegates in re Guards for Public Buildings, [20 June] 1783 (Madison Papers)
On 6 June, after agreeing to this proposal of the committee of the whole house on the state of the commonwealth, the Virginia House of Delegates appointed William Ronald of Powhatan County chairman of a committee of six members, including Richard Henry Lee, Joseph Jones, and Patrick Henry, to draft an appropriate measure. They submitted a bill on 18 June (
8Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 18 October 1783 (Madison Papers)
About a month after JM’s tenure in Congress had ended, the Virginia House of Delegates unanimously adopted on 4 December a resolution declaring that Congress “ought to be empowered to prohibit,” or “to concert any other mode to be adopted by the States” to prohibit, “British vessels from being the carriers...