11To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 18 July 1782 (Madison Papers)
...a hospital surgeon in the southern department from 1 July 1776 to 31 July 1781. Despite JM’s efforts in his behalf, Carter seems to have procured no direct relief from Congress. On 26 May 1784 he asked the Virginia General Assembly for nearly five years’ back pay, with allowances for depreciation. A certificate for the balance was authorized to be issued and charged against the United States (
12To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 16 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
For the attention given to this matter by the Virginia General Assembly during the session of October 1782, see On 26 June 1779 the Virginia General Assembly had adopted “An act declaring who shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth.” This statute declared that “The free white inhabitants of every of the states, parties to the American confederation, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from...
13To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 30 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
In this paragraph, Randolph interlineated “James river” and “of ground.” Since 1623 the Virginia General Assembly had designated public warehouses for the reception, inspection, and taxing of tobacco. The warehouse at “this obscure place,” Richmond, was “Shockoe’s,” on Shockoe Creek near its confluence with the James River (
14To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 20 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Virginia General Assembly was scheduled to convene on 21 October. Randolph foresaw that factionalism would necessitate his transmitting much information about the session to JM in code.
15To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
“An act for appropriating the public revenue,” passed by the Virginia General Assembly on 1 July, did not include the armed forces of the commonwealth among those listed in the statute who would benefit from the payment of “all arrears of wages, or salaries” (Randolph meant, of course, his comments upon the proceedings of the Virginia General Assembly at its October 1782 session. See
16To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 5 October 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XXXIII [1927–28], 544–52). Using British precedent as a general model, the Virginia General Assembly on 12 December 1776 stipulated that the defendant in a trial for treason could only “be legally convicted of open deed by the evidence of two sufficient and lawful witnesses,” or his own voluntary confession (
17To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 October 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the concurring opinions, to the extent that they are revealed by Pendleton’s own notes on the “Case of the Prisoners,” were not completely in accord, the majority held that the Virginia General Assembly lacked constitutional authority to violate the Form of Government, that the statute at issue did not embody such a violation beyond a reasonable doubt, and, much less clearly, that the oaths...
18To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 8 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
. The statute of the Virginia General Assembly which encouraged each of her citizens owing money to a British subject to wipe out the debt by paying its amount into the treasury of the state included no stipulation that the debtor must tender the real rather than the......the annual election of a governor “by joint ballot of both Houses” of the Virginia General Assembly. His tenure was limited...
19To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, [16] November 1782 (Madison Papers)
, and n. 4. In spite of Randolph’s “very little hope,” the Virginia General Assembly before the close of the year authorized the payment of a small portion of the state’s quota. See
20To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
That is, particularly “the transactions” of the Virginia General Assembly.. On 28 December 1782 the Virginia General Assembly amended the act of 2 July of that year for the “seizure and condemnation of British goods, found on land” by providing that it should take effect on 1 April 1783 rather than when “the rest of the...