151Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 2 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
...their own. Governor Harrison’s directives to county lieutenants and militia officers to round up these prisoners and return them to their cantonments were either unenforceable or unheeded. At Harrison’s urgent request, the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1782 enacted a measure “for apprehending British prisoners of war, and for other purposes,” but the statute has been lost (...
152Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 6 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
of 29 June 1782 that no money had been received to forward during April, May, and June. Although an act of the Virginia General Assembly in its session of May 1782 stipulated that certain tax income “shall be appropriated to continental purposes,” the measure included no provision for sending the money to Morris or even for transferring it to the custody of his...
153From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
). In view of the hostile attitude of a majority of Congress, the matter probably would be of grave concern to the Virginia General Assembly at its spring session. On 6 May 1782, upon sending the documents mentioned above to the speaker of the House of Delegates, Governor Harrison emphasized the need for a “speedy and decisive determination” of the issue (
154To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 15 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 5. On 5 January 1782 the Virginia General Assembly had enacted a law “for ascertaining certain taxes and duties, and for establishing a permanent revenue.” The second section of this lengthy statute fixed the land tax at £1 for every £100 valuation, to be paid...
155To 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 (
156To 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...
157From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 1 May 178[2] (Madison Papers)
...1 May, but he apparently left for Virginia early the next day, before Congress convened. Governor Harrison submitted the issue of the western lands on 6 May to the speaker of the House of Delegates for referral to the Virginia General Assembly when it convened (
158To 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 (
159From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, [7] May 1782 (Madison Papers)
On 2 January 1781 the Virginia General Assembly had adopted resolutions offering to Congress most of the territory in the Old Northwest. See ...deal fairly with her offer to cede her lands north and west of the Ohio River. After having ratified the impost amendment in the session of May 1781, the Virginia General Assembly in its November session of that year decided to hold the ratification in...
160Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 11 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the world.” When they first conferred about the supplies, La Luzerne seems to have encouraged Harrison to believe that the court of Versailles would cover the cost of the goods and accept as security “a bond” pledging the Virginia General Assembly to reimburse the French government “in five annual payments, to commence from the close of the present War.”