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June 24, | Resolutions prohibiting the purchase of Lands within the chartered limits of Virginia, from any Indian Tribe or Nation, without the approbation of the Virginia Legislature, | 1588
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| Ordinance to amend an Ordinance to provide for paying the expenses of the Delegates from Virginia to the General Congress, | 1589
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25, | Commanding Officer of the Continental Troops in Virginia, requested to prevent profane swearing, all manner of gaming, and every other vice and immorality among the officers and soldiers under his command, | 1590
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| The practice of gaming and profane swearing will ever be considered as an exclusion from all publick offices or employments in Virginia, | 1590
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| Ordinance to supply certain defects in a former Ordinance for racing six Troops of Horse, | 1590
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26, | Plan of Government considered in Committee of the Whole, | 1592
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28, | Natives of Great Britain permitted to depart this country, after taking an oath not to bear arms against America, nor give intelligence to the enemy during the war, | 1594
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| Ordinance to amend an Ordinance for making Tobacco payments, | 1595
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| Ordinance for making further provision for the defence and protection of this Colony, | 1596
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29, | Ordinance for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the Naval affairs of Virginia, | 1598
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| Constitution or Form of Government agreed to and resolved upon by the Delegates and Representatives of the several Counties and Corporations of Virginia, | 1598
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| Patrick Henry, Jun, elected Governour of the Commonwealth, | 1599
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| Privy Council appointed, | 1600
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| Edmund Randolph appointed Attorney-Gene-ral, | 1602
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July 1, | Answer of the Governour to the Convention on being notified of his appointment, | 1602
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| Address of the First and Second Virginia Regiment to Patrick Henry, on his appointment of Governour, | 1602
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| Answer of the Governour, | 1603
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| Ordinance for erecting Salt Works, and for encouraging the making of Salt, | 1603
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| Committee to devise a proper Seal for the Commonwealth, | 1605
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2, | Benjamin Harrison appointed a member of the Privy Council, in the room of Thomas Nelson, who declined the appointment, on account of his age and infirmities, | 1606
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| Report of the Committee on the cause and means of depreciating the value of the Paper Money, | 1606
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3, | Ordinance to enable the present Magistrates and Officers to continue the administration of justice, | 1608
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| A Company of Minute-Men to be stationed at each of the publick Salt Works in the Colony for their defence against the enemy, | 1608
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4, | Delegates in Congress to apply for leave to export provisions from this Commonwealth to procure Salt for the people of Virginia, | 1609
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| Ordinance to arrange the Counties into Districts for electing Senators, | 1609
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| Commissioners to collect, take, and commit to writing, the evidence on behalf of this Government against the several persons pretending to claim Lands within the territory and limits of Virginia, under deeds and purchases from the Indians, | 1610
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| Ordinance to amend an Ordinance for establishing a mode of punishment for the enemies of America in this Colony, | 1610
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5, | Ordinance prescribing the Oaths of office to be taken by the Governour and Privy Council, and other officers of the Commonwealth of Virginia, | 1611
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| Inhabitants of Botetourt County, settled on the Western Waters, to vote in the election of Representatives for the General Assembly, | 1612
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| Petition of the Captains of the First and Second Regiments: They are apprehensive an attempt is now making to destroy their right of promotion through the Virginia line, | 1613
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July 5, | Ordinance for amending an Ordinance for raising and imbodying a sufficient force for the defence and protection of this Colony, | 1613
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| Changes made in the morning and evening service, and the Litany in the Book of Common Prayer, | 1614
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| Ordinance making it felony to counterfeit the Continental paper currency, | 1616
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| Device for the Seal of the Commonwealth, | 1616
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| Adjourned till the first Monday in October next, then to meet in the City of Williamsburgh, | 1616
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June 10 | Congress met at Burlington, | 1615
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| Names of the Deputies to the Congress, | 1615
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11, | Samuel Tucker elected President, and William Paterson Secretary, | 1616
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| Doors of the Congress to be kept shut, and the debates and proceedings to be kept secret, except when the Congress orders otherwise, | 1616
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| Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the 3d and 4th June, received, | 1616
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| Committee to devise ways and means for carrying the said Resolutions into immediate effect, | 1617
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12, | Yeas and nays to be inserted on the Minutes, on the request of any Member, | 1617
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| Motion that not less than two-tkirds of the Deputies of the Congress be a quorum to do business, rejected, | 1617
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| Majority declared a quorum, | 1618
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| Letter from the Convention of Virginia, enclosing Resolutions respecting Independence, | 1618
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| Letter from the Provincial Congress of New-York, respecting a defection in the County of Bergen, | 1618
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| Letter from Colonel Brearley, of Monmouth County, complaining of sundry disaffected persons in his Regiment, | 1618
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| Two Petitions from sundry Inhabitants of Perth-Amboy, praying that the Government of the King of England may be suppressed, | 1618
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13, | Resignation of John DeHart, one of the Delegates in the Continental Congress, accepted, | 1618
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14, | Ordinance for raising three thousand three hundred of the Militia of New-Jersey, to reinforce the Army at New-York, | 1619
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| Proclamation of Governour Franklin for a meeting of the General Assembly on the 20th instant, not to be obeyed, | 1620
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15, | Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Perth-Amboy, praying that the Government of the Province may not be changed, | 1620
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| Resolutions declaring Governour Franklin has acted in contempt and violation of the Resolve of the Continental Congress, of the 15th of May; and has discovered himself to be an enemy to his country, . | 1621
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| Orders to Colonel Heard for the arrest of Governour Franklin, | 1622
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17, | Petition from the Committee of Windsor, in Middlesex County, praying that a new mode of Government may be established, | 1622
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| Petition from the Inhabitants of Maidenhead, in Hunterdon County, praying that a new mode of Government may be established, | 1623
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| The propriety of forming a Government to be considered on Friday next, | 1623
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| Committee on the Memorial of Colonel Brearley, respecting disaffected persons, | 1623
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18, | Letter from Colonel Heard: He has arrested Governour Franklin, who refuses to sign the parole, | 1623
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| Colonel Heard directed to bring Mr. Franklin to Burlington immediately, | 1624
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| Letter to the President of the Continental Congress, respecting the late Governour Franklin, | 1624
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| Memorial of the Committee of Hunterdon County, respecting certain disaffected persons in that County, | 1624
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19, | Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Shrewsbury, in Monmouth County, praying that no new mode of Government may be established, | 1625
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| Petition from New-Brunswick for the establishment of a new Government, | 1625
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