1To James Madison from David Jameson, 7 April 1781 (Madison Papers)
, V, 155, 356, 360; VI, 37. On 7 and 15 March the Virginia General Assembly resolved that “all officers and Others impowered to collect Horses be restrained from impressing Stallions, breeding Mares, or Geldings above the value of fifty pounds in Specie” (
2To James Madison from David Jameson, 10 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
. Following its adjournment on 23 June, the next regular session of the Virginia General Assembly was scheduled to convene on 1 October 1781 (
3To James Madison from David Jameson, 15 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
Among these “representations” was the mission of Benjamin Harrison from the Virginia General Assembly to Congress in February 1781 (
4To James Madison from David Jameson, 15 September 1781 (Madison Papers)
, II, 362–63, 364–65). Despite the fact that the Virginia General Assembly in December 1781 resolved that Clark should be paid the balance of nearly $35,000 owed him, he had not received all of this sum by June 1783 (
5To James Madison from David Jameson, [ca. 12 January] 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly, in its session of October 1781, had set one thousand to one as the depreciation rate for the paper currency of the state in relation to gold (
6To James Madison from David Jameson, 23 March 1782 (Madison Papers)
. The Virginia General Assembly enacted on 2 July 1782 a new statute providing for the recruitment of three thousand continental troops. Of this number, each county was allotted a quota equal to one-fifteenth of its quota of militia (
7To James Madison from David Jameson, [ca. 10] December 1782 (Madison Papers)
Jameson could not have written his letter before 4 December, since he noted in his third paragraph a measure of the Virginia General Assembly which was not enacted until that day. See n. 9. Although he probably would have known that the resignation of Randolph as a delegate to Congress and the outcome of the Arthur Lee—Mann Page affair—both a......Virginia General Assembly adjourned on 28...
8To James Madison from David Jameson, 24 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
). Joseph Jones was also attending the Virginia General Assembly as a delegate from King George County (