The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-12-18
L Legislature of CIirGinia.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF
The HOUSE or DELEGATES.
7aekaar, Dseemlcr 1915, 1904.

| fueject or the claim of the IndiaSa Comnapv
ana after Tome time fpent therein, Mir. Gbeaker
reiumed the chair, and Mr.. AyIctt reported.
mat the committee ofthe whole houir had, ac
cordirg to order, had the faid memorial and De-
| titions u'ider confederation, had gone through
| the lame, and had agreed upon report and
come to recitation thereupon. which he hand
cd in at the clerks table, where the fame were
1 read as follows:
The committee ofthe whole hcufs, 70 whom
was referred the memorial Of Georgs Jackfon,
and the petition OF fundry inhsbtant; of the
counties OF Monongaiia, Ohio, Harrifon, Ran
doPh aud Wood, have, according to order. had
the fame under their confederation and beg
leave to report.
| mat 1t appears to your committee, that on
the 2d day OF July, 1914 in confederation of the
fun OF { 400, paid by Thomas Lee and Will
am Beverly, conmiioners deputed by the 60
vernon or Virginia, TO treat with the Indians of
the Tx nations, twenty-five chiefs of the laid tx
nations, did, by deed under their hands and
fea!s rsnounce and difcaim ali the right of tbr
taid fix nations, and reco9uzc and acknowledge
the right and title OF the King or Great. Britain.
TO al! the lands within the colony of Virginia.
which deed, on the 25th day of O9ober, 1874.
was proved by three of the witneffes thereto, &
recorded in the general court OF Virginia.
| That it appears TO your committee, that up
wards of "a years after The iad deed was X
corded 10 wit, on the third day OF November.
l763, Tx chiefs fthe fix nations, by deed fub-
icrncd bv them, reciting as a confederation, that
Indians vi the Shawanere, Delaware and Huron
tribes, had before that time Plundercd certain
merchants of large quantity of goods, and ac-
knowleJeins the payment of FIVE fhillings, did
convey 10 the king of at-Britain, 10 the ufe
OF William Trent and others, the faid mer
chants, a large tract OF country between the ri
vsrS Ohio and Monongslia, which deed was af
forwards, to Wit, on the day of 1869
proven by the oath of one of the witneGcs there
to, aud recorded in Prnniylvana
!t:aFsiier appears 10 your committee, that 70
! long ago as 1853, fome inhabitants under the
authority ofVirginia, occupied part ofthe faid
| territory and were expelled therefrom by the
French and Indians, from whom the fame was
| reconquered in 1855, after which and during
the regal government, III Sysperfons fetted, fur
yeyed and obtained grants for lands within the
! faid territory.
II appears 20 your committee, that in Iune.
1879, the eralAfembly of Virginia, on con-
liberation of the claim Of the Indiana Company.
paiied an act declaring, that this commonwealth
! hath the executive right of prescription from the
Indians, OF all lands within the liuts OF its own
chartered territory, aud that fuch executive
right OF presumption, Will and ought 10 be
maintained by this commonwealth TO the utmon
GIFTS power, and that the purchaics made bv
or on behalf otthe crown OF Great-Britain, did
and ought to endure forever to the ufe of this
commonwealth, and that all fales by Indians. of
lands within the iaid limits for the ieparate ufe
OF any perf0n or perions whatfoever, are utterly
| VOID and ofno effect.
! 1t appears to your committee, that in OSto-
Der, 1879. the AIembiy of Virginia paiTsd acts
| for adjuiting claims to unpattented lands, and
| tor opening the land Office, and by the firf of
the taid ais perions who previous &c .7776 were
fettled on waite and unappropriatcd lands, to
which no other psrton then had any legal right
or CLAIM, were allowed to obtain 400 acres in
right of their iettlement, and preelnption of
! 100 acres of the like waite and unclaimed land :.
and by the latter act apy perfon was allowed 70
purchaie warrants for waite and unappropriated
lands, the location Of which he was himfcIf
| fpccdiy 70 direct.
| 1t aPpears TO your committee, thar under the
two Taft recited acts, very comfortable auanti
ty of land, within the bounds claimed bv the
Indiana company under the deed made by the
iad chiefs of the tx nations ON the third dav of
| November, l76s, has been furveyed aud gran,
ed to the tttters, and others, at thgir reoueH
III the fame manner as other lands iuppolsd TO
be waite, have been granted
| 1t appears to your committee, that in 1901.
| George Morgan, as proprietor, and foe agent
III me Indiana company, pelit;oned the icgif-
iature OF this commonwealth For redrefs for The
injury ailedged to have been ruffered by the laid
company by the declaratory act aforefaid, pan,
ed in 1879, which petition, with only four
diiienting votes, was rejected.
RsjoiUed, As the opinion Of this committee,
! that the memorial Of George Jacl;fon, and the
petitions of fundry inhabitants of the counties
OF Monongaia, Ohio, Harriion and Raudolph
! praying aid to defend fuit inaituted in the lie.
derai Circuit Court OF the diftriG of Virginia A.
CAN'T them by the indiinSa company, be reieGl-
| ed.
| The fad rcfolution being read fecond time.
a motion was made to amend the fame, by ffrik
! ing out at the end thereof the words "bereiect-
ed" and inferting the words SIS reafpnabie" ::
and adding after the ait mentioned words, the
| following, "and that the fun of fix hundred
dollars be paid out Of the arrears Of taxes due
from the counties pettioDiug on the iaid f,lb-
| jet, towards feeling council to aiih in defence
| of the faid luit";
And the queition being put upon the propo.
fed amendment, it palicd in the negative Yeas
| 1O-Nays l41.
| The quefion being thenput upon the refolufi-
| on as rePorted from the committee of the whole
houie 1t was agreed to by the houfe.-Yeas
| l2e--Nays 9.
| WedsSidag, Dec. IL.
| MIR. e. Harrifon preiented from the commit
tee Of proportions and grievances, the following