1To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
,” which the Virginia General Assembly passed during its October 1777 session (
2To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 19 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly at its session of May 1782 did not issue more bills of credit.Although the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1782 provided for paying the long overdue salaries and allowances of the delegates, Randolph did not return to Congress (
3To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
, X, 533). Although the Pennsylvania General Assembly ratified this compact on 19 November 1779, the Virginia General Assembly delayed until 4 July 1780 before expressing an approval, qualified by provisos intended to protect the personal and property rights of Virginians who, after the delineation of the boundary, would be under Pennsylvania’s jurisdiction (...Virginia General Assembly...
4To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
The session of the Virginia General Assembly of May 1782 enacted no law either to issue more paper money or to revive the legal-tender quality of earlier emissions (The Virginia General Assembly convened on 6 May but the House of Delegates did not have a quorum until nine days later (
5To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 16–17 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
. The “similar occasion” may have happened in the session of the Virginia General Assembly of May 1778, when a committee including Jefferson drafted a bill to compel the attendance of senators and delegates. Although this measure contained no provision forbidding a member to refuse to serve, Jefferson may have spoken in favor...
6To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 21–24 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
The October 1776 session of the Virginia General Assembly had enacted a law on this subject which, besides many other provisions, specifically banned trade in tobacco with the enemy (...banned a traffic which Congress and the Virginia General Assembly had also prohibited. The controversy involved not only a conflict between states’ rights and confederation power but also between the terms of a...
7To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 1 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 1 July 1782 the Virginia General Assembly enacted a law “for appropriating the public revenue.” This measure provided that the tax money “shall be appropriated to continental purposes, and shall be applied to the credit of this commonwealth, upon the requisition of congress of...
8To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 15 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XLVIII, 170–71, 173–74). Largely as a response to the above-mentioned statute and Harrison’s mission to Richmond, the Virginia General Assembly on 13 and 14 June passed resolutions (
9To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 20 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
), his eligibility would appear to end in 1782 on 31 October, since the Virginia General Assembly was accustomed to elect This was stipulated in the fifth paragraph of a statute enacted by the Virginia General Assembly on 5 January 1782 (
10To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
. In mid-June the Virginia General Assembly had reluctantly permitted the vessels to load tobacco (...of the plan of march and the route followed by the French army. Both the Virginia General Assembly and the residents of Williamsburg expressed to Rochambeau their appreciation for the signal services which his troops had rendered to the Commonwealth and for their “strict discipline.” The...