1. Report description begins Report of the Committee of Revisors Appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in MDCCLXXVI, Richmond, 1784 description ends , p. 4, has a check mark (✓) preceding the title of this and the following bills, after each of which TJ wrote “passd.” except that, after Bill No. 32, he wrote “passd. with great alterns.”: Nos. 3, 12, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, and 62. These notations were obviously made some time after the close of the Oct. 1785 session and before that of Oct. 1786; for all of the 33 bills checked and noted by TJ were passed at the Oct. 1785 session. Surprisingly, TJ failed to check the only other bills passed at the Oct. 1785 session: No. 46 and No. 82, the latter being the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

2. Both MSS have in the margin the following notation by TJ: “delivd. to a member.” (See letter of TJ and Wythe to Speaker of House, 18 June 1779.) This Bill was brought in but not passed in 1779.

3. Both MSS have the following in TJ’s hand in the margin: “passd.” Bill was presented by TJ 8 May 1779. MS (2) has the following after the title: “V.V.1.” It also has a similar device affixed to each of the titles of bills indicated by the numbers in parentheses: (9):V.V.2; (10):U.U.3; (11):F.F.4; (14):W.W.3; (15):V.V.4; (19):R.R.3; (20):A.1; (24):L.2; (26):R.2.; (27):K.1.; (28):V.1.; (29):J.4.; (30):U.U.1.; (31):P.P.1.; (32):P.P.3.; (37):F.4.; (40):U.3.; (46):N.N.3; (48):M.M.2.; (51):T.T.1.; (52):S.S.3.; (55):G.2.; (56):G.4.; (57):C.2.; (58):Q.4.; (64):Z.3.; (66):F.2.; (67):E.4.; (68):F.F.1.; (70):E.3.; (71):V.2.; (72):W.3.; (73):I.3.; (74):H.4.; (75):M.3.; (76):H.3.; (79):H.H.2.; (80):C.C.3.; (81):R.R.1.; (82):L.L.1.; (83):L.L.4.; (84):D.3.; (94):I.3.; (110):C.1.; (112):S.3.; (113):T.2.; (121):M.1.; (125):N.1.

4. Both MSS have the following in TJ’s hand in the margin: “passd.” Bill was presented by TJ 12 May 1779.

5. Both MSS have the following in TJ’s hand in the margin: “passd.” Bill was presented by TJ 17 May 1779.

6. MS (2) has the following deleted at this point: “13. for establishing a loan office. [Act 1778. c. 9.].” This, of course, meant that originally MS (2) had a total of 127 Bills (actually 128; see note 12, below). TJ had already numbered each of these from 1 to 127; consequently, after he had made this deletion, he renumbered Bills No. 14 to 127 to accord with Nos. 13 to 126 as given in Report description begins Report of the Committee of Revisors Appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in MDCCLXXVI, Richmond, 1784 description ends and in MS (1). Since there was no such deletion or renumbering in MS (1), it is obvious that it was copied from MS (2).

7. MS (1) has the following in TJ’s hand in the margin: “passd.” Bill presented by TJ 21 May 1779.

8. MS (2) originally read: “to discourage desertion …” but this was altered by TJ to read as above.

9. MS (1) has the following in TJ’s hand: “presentd.” Bill was presented by TJ 18 May 1779, passed by the House 26 May, and rejected by the Senate 5 June. This marginal note must, therefore, have been made before 5 June 1779; see note 13, below.

10. MS (1) has “presentd” in TJ’s hand. This Bill was presented 27 May.

11. This title is in TJ’s hand in MS (1). The clerk had mistakenly added it to the preceding title, causing that to read “for levying county rates for support of the poor.”

12. MS (2) has the deleted title of another Bill following this one: “for regulating the inspection of tobacco.” There is no number prefixed to this deleted title; hence the deletion was made before the numbering from 1 to 127 as indicated in note 6 above, whereas the deletion described in that note was made after the numbering. Since, as indicated in note 13 below, this renumbering was done after the marginalia were written, it follows that these two Bills were struck from the list by TJ somewhere around 1–5 June (see notes 6 and 9, above). The titles of Bills No. 17, 25, 53, 62, and 104 were interlined in MS (2) by TJ; this may possibly mean that he decided to add them to the Report of the Committee of Revisors just as, at the last moment, he decided to strike two from the list.

13. TJ added the following in margin of MS (2): “delivd. to a member.” This Bill was turned over to George Mason on 1 June 1779 (see notes to Bill No. 55) when TJ became governor. Now, in every case except this and one other (see note 15, below), the renumbering described in note 6, above, was done by crossing out the old number and writing the new number in front of it. This resulted in a column of crossed-out numbers preceded by a parallel column of new numbers. In the case of Bill No. 55, however, TJ made the change by superimposing the new number on the old. This was obviously done to allow room in the margin for the words “delivd. to a member,” for the word “member” falls in the middle of the space that would have been occupied by the new number “55” if it had been placed as all others. From this it follows, of course, that the words “delivd. to a member” were already there before TJ renumbered the bills. Now these marginal notes were written not earlier than 1 June or later than 5 June 1779 (see note 9, above). Hence bills described in notes 6 and 12, above, were clearly struck from the Report by TJ (possibly in consultation with George Wythe) during the first week of June 1779 and just before the two men submitted their shortened list of bills to the General Assembly. For MS (1) was copied from MS (2) before any numbering had been made on the latter and after two of these titles had been struck from it. TJ then prefixed the correct and final numbers 1 to 126 to the titles of MS (1).

14. MS (2) has the following in the margin: “brought in.” The Bill was introduced 26 May 1779 and passed 14 June.

15. The words “delivd to a member” are written in the margin of MS (2), the word “member” being written in a minuscule hand beneath the new number “82” (see note 13, above). Bill was introduced on 13 June 1779 (see notes to Bill No. 82).

16. The words “delivd to a member” are written in the margin of MS (2) but the new number “83” was superimposed on the old and the marginal phrase placed as in the instance described in note 13, above. This was introduced by John Harvie 13 June 1779, but it did not get beyond the first reading (see notes to Bill No. 83).

17. The word “passd.” is written in margin of MS (2). This Act was not passed until the Oct. 1779 session (see notes to Bill No. 88). This notation must have been made by TJ, therefore, at a later date than the others referred to above.

18. The word “passed” is written in margin of MS (2). Bill No. 93 was passed 26 June 1779. The Bill for Establishing a Court of Admiralty was passed in 1776 and TJ’s marginal note obviously refers to that.

19. TJ wrote “Marshall” in MS (2); it was so copied in MS (1) and thus printed in Report description begins Report of the Committee of Revisors Appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in MDCCLXXVI, Richmond, 1784 description ends .

20. The word “passed” is written in margin of MS (2). Bill No. 98 was passed 1 June 1779.

21. In MS (2) TJ first wrote “prochain ami” and then deleted the phrase.

22. Following this title in MS (2) is another, deleted and unnumbered as in the instance described in note 12, above. This deleted title reads: “for enforcing performance of awards made by rule of court,” which of course is the same as the title of Bill No. 122.

23. The word “passed” is written in the margin of both MSS. Bill No. 119 was introduced by TJ 29 May and it was passed 1 June 1779.