1To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 22 December 1781 (Madison Papers)
Ambler was judging the work of the Virginia General Assembly in terms of its halting progress toward passage of the all-important bill “for calling in and funding the paper money of this state,” introduced on 27 November. The members of the House of Delegates were unable to......Trade, he was appointed to the Council of State by the Virginia General Assembly. In April 1782 he resigned from...
2To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 3 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
Although the Virginia General Assembly convened on 5 May and mustered its first quorum one week later, Colonel Newton, the delegate from Norfolk Borough, is not mentioned in the journal of the session until 2 June (County, respectively, in the Virginia General Assembly (
3To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 14 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
Enclosure not found. JM, Theodorick Bland, and John Francis Mercer were the delegates from Virginia then in Philadelphia. The other two, Joseph Jones and Arthur Lee, were in Richmond attending the Virginia General Assembly. See Ambler could not have received JM’s reply before the adjournment of the Virginia General Assembly on 28 June (
4To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 29 December 1781 (Madison Papers)
. Although the Virginia General Assembly managed to remain in session until 5 January 1782, the House of Delegates ordered the sergeant at arms on 28 December 1781 to bring in forty-nine absent members who had not been excused from attending. Three days later...
See n. 3, above. JM interlineated “to it” and “its.” A statute enacted by the Virginia General Assembly on 5 January 1782 abolished the state emissions of paper money as legal tender immediately, except for the payment of taxes for 1781 and for the purchase of public-land warrants prior to 1 October 1782. For the latter...
6To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 5 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
. On 1 July the Governor in Council, having received the resignation of John Boush, auditor, appointed John Pendleton, Jr., ad interim to serve with the other auditors, Bolling Stark and Harrison Randolph, until the Virginia General Assembly convened. On 20 November that legislature confirmed the executive’s choice by electing Pendleton to the position (
7To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 24 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
Although a statute of 5 January 1782 had defined “a scale of depreciation” for computing the specie equivalent of previously incurred private debts, the Virginia General Assembly may have heeded a request made by the auditors on 4 June and readjusted the scale, insofar as the remuneration of the delegates in Congress was concerned, by a resolution adopted by the House of Delegates on 22 June...
8To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 12 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
). The law creating the Board of Auditors, enacted by the Virginia General Assembly in December 1778, directed them “to give warrants on the treasurer for the payment or advance of wages to our delegates in congress, debiting each delegate respectively with the warrant given in his name, and requiring account thereof...
9To George Washington from Colonel George Baylor, 27 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Virginia general assembly passed “An act for raising a regiment of Horse” in its May 1778 session (
10John Beckley to Edmund Randolph, [20 June] 1783 (Madison Papers)
Absence from Richmond for ten days and inability to fulfill JM’s request for a copy of the Virginia General Assembly’s printed journal covering the recent sessions led Randolph to ask John Beckley, clerk of the House of Delegates, to prepare a summary of its proceedings for JM’s information (