The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1776-07-05 00:00:00, page 6

from the respective county courts; but
the Governour and Council shall have a
power of suspending any officer, and or
dering a court-martial on complaint of mis
behaviour or inability, or to supply vacan
cies of officers happening when in actual
service. The Governour may embody
the militia, with the advice of the Privy
Council; and, when embodied, shall alone
have the direction of the militia under the
laws of the country.
The two Houses of Assembly shall, by
joint ballot, appoint Judges of the Supreme
Court of Appeals, and General Court,
Judges in Chancery, Judges of Admiralty,
Secretary, and the Attorney-General, to
be commissioned by the Governour, and
continue in office during good behaviour.
In case of death, incapacity, or resignati
on, the Governour, with the advice of the
Privy Council, shall appoint persons to
succeed in office, to be approved or displac
ed by both Houses. These officers shall
have fixed and adequate salaries, and to
gether with all others holding lucrative
offices, and all ministers of the Gospel of
every denomination, be incapable of being
elected members of either House of Assem
bly, or the Privy Council.
The Governour, with the advice of the
Privy Council, shall appoint Justices of the
Peace for the counties; and in case of va
cancies, or a necessity of increasing the
number hereafter, such appointments to
be made upon the recommendation of the
respective county courts. The present
acting Secretary in Virginia, and Clerks of
all the County Courts, shall continue in
office. In case of vacancies, either by
death, incapacity, or resignation, a Se
cretary shall be appointed as before direct
ed, and the Clerks by the respective courts.
The present and future Clerks shall hold
their offices during good behaviour, to be
judged of and determined in the General
Court. The Sheriffs and Coroners shall
WaLTER CoLEs, ¢fq; vice-chairman,
and a majority of the members.
‘HE following persons, to wit, Zho-
T mas Yuille, Thomas Hope, Fames
Steven, Walter Robertson, Richard Walker,
and Ralph Owen, who were cited to attend
this committee by a former resolution,
this day appeared; and the oath prescrib
ed by a resolution of the Convention of
this colony being tendered to them, they
refufed to take the fame; whereupon it is
resolved that the ferjeant to this commit
tee do wait on them to receive their arms
and ammunition, which are to be applied
as directed by the General Congress.
And to the end that the publick may be
informed of the names of the persons who
have thus thewn themselves to be difif
fected to the American interef(t,
Resolved, that the clerk of this commit
tee do forthwith transmit a copy of the
above proceedings to mr. PurpiE, with
INCOMMITTEE. |,
HALIFAX couNTY, Fune 20, 1776.
PRESENT :
Jou~ Pace, DuprLey DicGEs, JouN Tavroe, Jorn Brarr, BenjaMilN HARRISON of Berkeley, Bax-
THOLOMEW DANDRIDGE, CHARLFS CARTER of Shirley, and BENjAMIN HARRISON of Brandon, Counfellors
of State. " 5 _
The following are the appointments under the above P L A N of GOVERNMENT.
PATRICK HENRY, junior, esq; Governour.
THOMAS WHITING, JOHN HUTCHINGS, CHAMPION TRAVIS, THOMAS NEWTON, jun. and GEORGE
WEBB, esquires, Commissioners of Admiralty.
EDMUND RANDOLPH, esq; Attorney-General
THOMAS EVERARD, and JAMES COCKE, esquires, Commisisoners for settling accounts.
a request to him to publith them in his
GAzETTE. (A copy)
T. ‘TUNSTALL, clerk.
At a committee held for Spotfylvania coun
ty, the 20th day of Fune 1776, the fol
lowing charge was ‘exhibited by capt.
Gabriel Jones, to wit:
C Benjamin Grymes for {peaking dif
APT. Gabriel Jones complains against
refpectful of the Convention, and commit
tees of this colony, wherefore he prays
this committee may take the fame under
their confideration’; in consequence of
which, as well the said capt. Jones as the
said Grymes appeared with the witnesses
produced by each party, on hearing of
whom, and the said Grymes’s confeflion
in hisown defence, this committee are of
opinion that the said Grymes is guilty of
the said charge, the purport of the said
Grymes’s confeflion being this: That he,
in conversation with the said witnefles, did
fay, that his nephew John Grymes was an
innocent mar; that he had been unjustly
treated by the Committee of Safety, and
be nominated by the respective courts,
approved by the Governour with the advice
of the Privy Council, and commissioned
by the Governour. The Justices shall ap
point Constables, and all fees of the afore
said officers be regulated by law.
The Governour, when he is out of office,
and others offending against the state,
either by mal-administration, corruption,
or other means by which the safety of the
state may be endangered, shall be impeach
able by the House of Delegates. Such
impeachment to be prosecuted by the At
torney-General, or such other person or
persons as the House may appoint in the
General Court, according to the laws of
the land. If found guilty, he or they shall
be either for ever disabled to hold any
office under government, or removed from
such office pro tempore, or subjected to
such pains or penalties as the law shall di
rect.
If all, or any of the Judges of the Gene
ral Court, should, on good grounds (to
be judged of by the House of Delegates)
be accused of any of the crimes or offences
before-mentioned, such House of Dele
gates may. in like manner, impeach the
Judge or Judges so accused, to be pro
secuted in the Court of Appeals; and he or
they, if found guilty, shall be punished
in the same manner as is prescribed in the
preceding clause.
Commissions and grants shall run, In
the name of the COMMONWEALTH of
VIRGINIA, and bear test by the Gover
nour with the seal of the commonwealth
annexed. Writs shall run in the same
manner, and bear test by the clerks of the
several courts. Indictments shall con
clude, Against the peace and dignity of the
commonwealth.
A Treasurer shall be appointed annually,
by joint ballot of both Houses.
All escheats, penalties, and forfeitures,
heretofore going to the king, shall go to
GOD save the COMMONWEALTH
the Convention ; that the Amaricans hal
taken a wrong method to have their griev
.ances redrefled ; that each colony ought
to have sent two members to England for
that purpose. All which confc(fion th
said witnesses declared: upon oath wa
true, asthe {aid Grymes, in their hearing,
-exprefled himfelf with this fartheraddition,
that the committees, instead of fupprefling
riots and mobs (as he had attempted ©
do) encouraged them; that the fiid
Grymes declared, that the Congress and
Convention had done nothing right; that
the Convention were a pack of rascals;
that their president used to be a friend 10
all governours, but now 8001. a year h
made an alteration. This committe
therefore gives it as their opinion, that the
said Grymes, being inimical to the good
cause of America, ought to be held up 10
the publick censure. Ordered, that th
clerk of this committee transmit a copy o
these proceedings to the printer.
By order of the committee.
Joun Cuew, jun. clerk:
the commonwealth, five only such as the
legislature may abolish, or otherwise pro
vide for.
The territories contained within the
charters erecting the colonies of Maryland,
Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina
are hereby ceded, released, and for ever
confirmed to the people of those colonies
respectively, with all the rights of proper
ty, jurisdiction, and government, and all
other rights whatsoever which might at
any time heretofore have been claimed by
Virginia, except the free navigation and
use of the rivers Potowmack and Pohomoke,
with the property of the Virginia shores or
strands bordering on either of the said ri
vers, and all improvements which have
been or shall be made thereon. The
western and northern extent of Virginia
shall in all other respects stand as fixed by
the charter of King James the first, in the
year one thousand six hundred and nine
and by the publick treaty of peace between
the courts of Great Britain and France in
the year one thousand seven hundred and
sixty three; unless, by act of legislature
one or more territories shall hereafter be
laid off, and governments established west
ward of the Allegheny mountains. And
no purchase of lands shall be made of the
Indian natives but on behalf of the publick
by authority of the General Assembly.
In order to introduce this government,
the representatives of the people met in
Convention shall choose a Governour and
Privy Council, also such other officers di
rected to be chosen by both Houses as may
be judged necessary to be immediately ap
pointed. The Senate to be first chosen
by the people, to continue until the last
day of March next, and the other officers
until the end of the succeeding session of
Assembly. In case of vacancies, the speaker
of either House shall issue writs for new
elections.