| (Circular.) Council Chamber, Nov. 24th, 1809. Gentlemen, The subjoined copy of an advice of the Council of state, is explicit as to the object therein contemplated. Its importance will no doubt obtain from you the proper attention, which is expected of your patiotism; and required by the public interest ... |
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| (Circular.) In Council October 5, 1810. Gentlemen, As there is reason to believe that in many of the counties and corporations of the commonwealth, the office of Escheator is vacant I have, in pursuance of an advice of the Council of state, to request, that, if such should be the case in your county, you will be pleased to recommend, without delay, a proper person to fill the said office ... |
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| Council Chamber, April 23d, 1811. The following advice was adopted by the Council for the Commonwealth of Virginia, on Tuesday the 23d April. In Council. 23d April 1811. The Lieutenant Governor laid before the board a letter from Philip Norborne, the Attorney General of the state, containing his opinon "that bonds and recognizances which are to be taken in this state until a Governor is appointed ought to be taken to George William Smith, Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia ... |
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| Council Chamber, October 20, 1785 Gentlemen. The act of Assembly passed last session for further continuing the Act concerning pensioners, directs the courts of the several counties within this commonwealth to make, to the Executive, returns respecting the bodily abilities of all persons receiving annual pensions from the puiblic... |
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| Executive journals, 1726-1753. |
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| The humble address of the Council, in Assembly, to the Honourable William Gooch Esq; His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief, of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. |
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| In Council, 29th Dec, 1788 : Sir. In the settlement of the account of this Commonwealth with the United States, vouchers are required ... |
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| In Council, April 12, 1781. Sir. Having received an application from the Commanding officer to strengthen our army below, and being very unwilling to harrass the militia, more than shall be absolutely unavoidable we are in hopes an immediate and sufficient accession of force may be obtained by application to the several Counties for their deliquents in militia duty whom the law sentences to six months service... |
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| In Council, February 20, 1786. Gentlemen. I am under the necessity of troubling you again on the subject of pensioners. The General Assembly, at their last session, having so materially altered the law respecting them, that no person now on the pension list, can procure a warrant for the present year, until they undergo a re-examination... |
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| In Council. January 29, 1787 : gentlemen, the executive having addressed you on the 20th of February 1786 concerning pensioners; I beg leave to refer you to their letter. They are still solicitous for a strict adherence to the recommendations, then made, except in the directions concerning the mode of payment ... |
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| In Council. January the 16th, 1797. Gentlemen, The Executive deem it essentially necessary that an accurate state of the commission of the peace in each County, should be known to them, in order that they may judge of the propriety of adding to them, or of rejecting propositions for, to have a sufficient number of the Acts of Assembly published for the use of all magistrates in the state... [Signed in mss.] James Wood. (Circular) |
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| In Council. June 16, 1779. The Board proceeded to the consideration of the letters of Colonel Clarke, and other papers relating to Henry Hamilton, Esq ... |
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| In Council, March 26, 1781. Sir. I inclose you by express, three acts of the last session of Assembly for ascertaining the number of militia in the state; exempting artificers employed at iron works from militia duty, and remedying the inconveniences arising from the interruption of the draught and the procuring clothes, provisions, and waggons for the army... |
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| In Council, March 30, 1781. Sir. The act of October 1780, for recruiting this state's quota of troops to serve in the continental army, allowed persons to exempt themselves from certain military duties, by enlisting a soldier after the first day of the ensuing month of April, to serve during the war, and delivering him to a person authorized by the governour to receive him. Sensible that the burthens of your office are sufficiently great, we would not mean to put this duty on you, but beg the favour of you to appoint a proper person to receive such recruits within your county and to take care of them until they can be delivered to continental officers, who are to be appointed to collect them... |
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| In Council, May 20, 1788 : Gentlemen. I beg leave to submit to your particular attention, the acts of the Executive hereto subjoined. It may be proper to make known to the pensioners in your County, the order for re-examination; otherwise they may be put to some inconvenience in the applications, to be made by them to the Executive next year ... |
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| Minutes of the Council and General Court of colonial Virginia |
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| To all the good people of Virginia. |
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| To the Honorable Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; |
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| To the Honourable Francis Fauquier |
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