1Expense Account as Delegate in Congress, [20 December] 1780 (Madison Papers)
The per diem allowance had been fixed by the Virginia General Assembly
2From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1781 (Madison Papers)
of 3 April. In a letter of 29 January Governor Jefferson reminded Benjamin Harrison of Virginia’s “Distress for salt” and asked him, while in Philadelphia as the special delegate of the Virginia General Assembly, to seek to assure the continuance of Virginia’s trade with Bermuda for that article “without umbrage to Congress or the French Minister” (
3Motion on Currency, [30 May] 1781 (Madison Papers)
, XX, 592). For conformance with this resolution by the Virginia General Assembly, see
4Expense Account as Delegate in Congress, 20 June 1781 (Madison Papers)
Not knowing what arrangements would now be made for paying the delegates, JM left this portion blank. The rate, as fixed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1779, was $20.00 a day in old continental currency (
5Motion on Instructions on Treaty of Commerce, [29 June] 1781 (Madison Papers)
...upon the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the United States and toward sending adequate military aid to the southern states in their time of desperate need. Against his wishes, the Virginia General Assembly had instructed the Virginia delegation in Congress to yield the right of free navigation of the Mississippi River below 31° north latitude, if no treaty of alliance with...
6From James Madison to Philip Mazzei, 7 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
, XIII, No. 1 [1961], 56–59). Although Jouett was rewarded by the Virginia General Assembly with “an elegant sword and pair of pistols” ( Revolution, he served in the Virginia General Assembly in 1786–1788 and in 1790. He was influential in advancing Kentucky to statehood and was in its legislature in 1792 and 1795–1797 (James F. Hopkins, ed.,
7Expense Account as Delegate in Congress, 20 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
, JM left his per diem salary a blank, even though the Virginia General Assembly had not altered the amount of $20.00 a day provided by a statute of the October 1779 session. As
8Protest of Virginia Delegates, [10 October] 1781 (Madison Papers)
For the principal “conditions or reservations” included in the act of cession by the Virginia General Assembly, see
9From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 13 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
, I, 101. On 17 and 18 December 1781 the Virginia General Assembly resolved unanimously to commission the execution in Paris of a marble bust of Lafayette for presentation to him “as a lasting monument of his merit, and of their gratitude” (
10From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly neither suspended the act of cession nor remonstrated against interference by Congress in territorial matters deemed to be solely within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, probably on the assumption that nothing needed to be added to the remonstrance of...