Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Volume 9

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The Library, 1916

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Pagina 76 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Pagina 74 - An act for the cession of ten miles square, or any lesser quantity of territory within this State, to the United States in Congress assembled, for the permanent seat of the general government...
Pagina 215 - Tuesday in every month, in such manner as by the laws of this colony is provided, and shall be by their commissions directed.
Pagina 218 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Pagina 269 - Together with precedents of warrants, judgments, executions, and other legal process, issuable by magistrates within their respective jurisdictions, in cases civil or criminal. And the method of judicial proceedings, before justices of peace, In matters within their cognisance out of session. Collected from the common and statute laws of England, and acts of assembly, now In force; and adapted to the constitution and practice of Virginia.
Pagina 24 - You must observe if you can, whether the river on which you plant doth spring out of mountains or out of lakes. If it be out of any lake, the passage to the other sea will be more easy, and [it] is like enough, that out of the same lake you shall find some spring which run[s] the contrary way towards the East India Sea...
Pagina 218 - Be it, therefore, enacted, by the Lieutenant- Governor, Council, and Burgesses of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same...
Pagina 23 - ... we had daily common prayer morning and evening, every Sunday two sermons, and every three months the Holy Communion, till our minister died. But our prayers daily, with an homily on Sundays, we continued two or three years after, till more preachers came.
Pagina 81 - October, 1783, passed an act to authorize their delegates in Congress to convey to the United States in Congress assembled, all the right of that Commonwealth to the territory northwestward of the river Ohio...
Pagina 280 - Leader of the Late INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON, VA. As fully and voluntarily made to THOMAS R. GRAY, In the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal of the Court, convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for his trial. Also, An Authentic ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE INSURRECTION.

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