1. A committee was appointed on 20 May in the House of Delegates to repeal and supersede the ordinance of the convention of July 1775 “for regulating the election of delegates.” Henry Tazewell was chairman and JM one of five other committeemen. Tazewell introduced a bill on 8 June which was titled “A bill to repeal an ordinance of Convention, and to regulate elections, and enforce the attendance of the members of the General Assembly.” This measure passed its first reading, and was read again on 9 June, when it was committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Heavily amended by that committee on 14 June, the bill passed its third reading on 15 June, under the title “an act, for altering the time of the annual meeting of the General Assembly, and for other purposes” (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , May 1784, p. 57; Hening, Statutes description begins William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols.; Richmond and Philadelphia, 1819–23). description ends , XI, 387–88). Thomas Mathews was ordered to carry the approved bill forward to the Senate and was probably the principal author of the legislation, but JM, who well knew how influential county officials could be at election time, made a bid for impartiality with emendations in the section on sheriffs’ duties.

2. In the approved bill “two hundred pounds” was inserted here.

3. Before final passage, “two” was inserted.

4. The Senate announced concurrence on 17 June, and the speaker signed the bill into law on 30 June (JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , May 1784, pp. 61, 89).