Ordinances passed at a Convention held at the town of Richmond, in the colony of Virginia, on Monday the 17th of July, 1775.
Contributors: Peyton, Randolph, 1721-1775.; Virginia. Committee of Safety.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Alexander Purdie
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Williamsburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Virginia. Militia.; Law -- Virginia.; Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.
Notes: Evans 14595
Peyton Randolph, president.
Printed in "The statutes at large; being a collection of all the laws of Virginia ... By William Walter Hening ... Richmond [etc.] 1819-23." vol. ix, 1821, p. [9]-74.
An ordinance for providing arms and ammunitition for the use of this colony.--An ordinance to provide for paying the expense of the delegates from this colony to the general Congress.
Autograph (?) signature of William Davies on t.p.; ms. marginal notes.
Formerly in the Toner Collection.
Table of contents: title: [An ordinance for raising two regiments of militia]; title: An ordinance for the better government of the forces to be raised and employed in the service of the colony and dominion of Virginia.; title: An ordinance appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony.; title: An ordinance for regulating the election of delegates and ascertaining their allowances, and also for regulating the election of committee-men in the several counties and corporations within this colony, and for other purposes therein named.; title: An ordinance for appointing commissioners to settle the accounts of the militia lately drawn out into actual service, and for making provision to pay the same, as well as the expense of raising and providing for the forces and minute-men directed to be embodied for the defence of this colony.