The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-12
JUSTICE
VIRGINIA HAD.
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Paper Appointing Him Found IN
Mecklsnburg Clerks
Office.
RY FIRST GOVERNOR
The Appoiitlne Made BY the
Authority Of King
George III.
WRITTEN RY FIRST GOVERNOR
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tSDerl1IE TO Inc U1fleS- plrlhi'ii. LII
Huteheson, clerk or the Circuit G3nrt q
~Mecklenburg, assisted by =. G.. Miller, OK
Powhatan. who Is IN expert Win cour.
papers. have been at work Tor Merry
tho clerks office papers in the shelves Oh
the new tlreproof oficc.
In ov%erhauling and examining the pa
pers, many curious old documents nave
come to light, many OF them being OK,
ceedingly interesting as throwing light on
the goyernment or virginia ana espe ninh-
Governor of Virginia, appointing the flrst
Justices FOR Mecklenburg, was found and
virginia, to-wit.. George the Third,
Britain. Francs and Ireland, Klng,
Dsfender q the Faith and SO forth,
John Camp, BENJAMIN Baird, Thomas ELS
KIN. John Potter. John Cox, Thomas An,
derson. John Speed. Junior, and Samuel
HOPKINS. of the county OF Mecklenbnrs,
Gentlemen, greeting: We do by these
present constitute and assign you and
every one of you Jointly and severaiiy,
county of Mecklen burg, and do require
you TO keep or Chuse to he kept, all or
dinances and statutes of our kingdom or
Great Britain and laws OF his our Col
o's ~ VI b''h -
the good of the peace and for the constr-
walton OF. the same and FOR the quiet, rule
ana government of our people In all ana
every article thereof, in the said county,
according to the force, form and effect
OF the same, and to chastise and punish
all persons offending against the forms
OF those ordinances and statutes OF our
kingdom of Great Britain and laws of this
our Colony and Dominion or any OF them.
in the county aforesaid, and to cause TO
come before you or any 81 sou. all those
persons who shall threaten n OF Our
liege people, either in their bodies or burn
Ing their homes, to find sufficient security
for the peace or for their good behavior
towards us and the people, and IL they
to cause them to be kept safe in prison.
until they find such security. We have
also assigned you or any four or more
of you. whereof n of you, the SAID Rob
Henry De!any, Edmond Taylor. John
Camp or Benjamln Bard, shall be one 10
meet at the usual place of holding courts
in the county aforesaid, according to law.
sizes and debates between party and par
ty, doing therein what 10 justice apper-
taineth. according to the laws OF our
Kingdom of Great Britain and Of this, our
likewise to you and every one of you to
take dispositions and examinations upon
oath for the better manifestation OF the
truth, in all such matters and causes as
to be kept all orders OF court, orders of
council and ~proclamations, directed 10 you
or coming to your hanGs froHf ourselves
or from our Governor or commander-in-
chief for the time being, and our Council
of State of our said Colony, and to punish
the offenders and STeakeIs of the anne
according TO the faws of our Kingdom
of Great Britain and Of our said Colony
anu Domi on. And. tIuTSrer, to Keep Or
cause the clerk of our court to keep, re-
cords of all judgments. rules and orders.
decided or agreed upon by you, or four
or more OF you. whereof any of Sou. the
last mentioned Justices. shan be one. And,
we do command you, and every
OF you. that you diligently intend the
Kingdom of Great Britain and the laws
of this. our said Colony and Dominion,
and Oil and singular other the premises.
We do also by these presents command
that at those certain days and places
which the law doth appoint, he cause to
come before you. or any four or more OF
you. whereof any of you. our said last.
so many good and lawful men OF his
bailiwick by whom the truth OF the mat
ter may be the better known and enquir-
Ed o.: witness our trusty and wei be-
ant-Governor and commander-in-chief OF
our Colony and Dominion at the our
Chamber in Williamsburg, under the seal
March. one thousand, seven hundred and
sixty-ftve, in the fifth year OF u reign.
FkAN. FAuQUlER.
Another court was organized. on July
%. I'M. by Patrick Henry. Esq, Governor
or Chief Magistrate.o of the Commonwealth.
The document bears his signature and is
dated in the Council Chamber at WIZ
liamsburg. The following gentlemen were
appointed Justices: Robert Munford, John
Speed, Henry Delany, Edmon Taylor,
John Camp, Sir Peyton skipwith. Bart;
William Davis. Lewis Burwell. Reubin
Vaughn. Bennett Goode, Joseph Speed.
Francis Rufiin, John Murray. James AM
derson, Thacker Burwell, Henry Walker,
William Lucas, Lewis Parham. Geo. Tor
ry, Samuel Goode and Cleverius Coleman.