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...
2Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 30 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
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3Thomas Jefferson and John H. Cocke to James Breckinridge, Joseph C. Cabell, Chapman Johnson, James Madison, and Robert … (Jefferson Papers)
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4Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, David Watson, and John H. Cocke, [2 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
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5To James Madison from the Virginia General Assembly, 22 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
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6To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 3 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
This paragraph recapitulates Randolph’s comments about the repeal on 6 and 7 December by the Virginia General Assembly of its ratification of the proposed impost amendment to the Articles of Confederation in , Randolph had questioned the constitutionality of the annulment by the Virginia General Assembly of its ratification of the amendment. See
7To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1784 (Madison Papers)
...read in Congress on 1 March 1784. After much debate, Congress tabled the petition and adopted a motion to have the delegates of Virginia deliver “the deed,” drawn by them in conformance with the act passed by the Virginia General Assembly at its session of October 1783, conveying to Congress “all the right of that Commonwealth, to the territory northwestward of the river Ohio” (
8To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 8 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
, May 1783, p. 39. For Jefferson, Arthur Lee, and Mercer, the action of the Virginia General Assembly on 6, not on 7, June was a re-election, although Jefferson had not served as a delegate since 1776. For Samuel Hardy of Isle of ...Virginia General Assembly of May 1783 was composed of 25 senators and 152 delegates. Thus, in the unlikely event that there were no absentees, a bare majority would...
9To 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...
10To 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 (