Annual Message and Accomanying Documents, المجلد 1776

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الصفحة 88 - Resolutions thereupon; which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same were again twice read, and unanimously agreed to, one hundred and twelve Members being present...
الصفحة 24 - ... thousands of zealous friends and defenders of our State who, besides the invidious and disadvantageous restrictions to which they have been subjected, annually pay large taxes to support an establishment from which their consciences and principles oblige them to dissent. All which are confessedly...
الصفحة 7 - Benedict, Fifty Years, 96. ruary 12, the Journal of the Burgesses shows that " A petition of several persons of the county of Lunenburg, whose names are thereunto subscribed, was presented to the House and read; setting forth, that the petitioners...
الصفحة 8 - House on whom the majority of the votes should fall. The committee then withdrew, and after some time returned into the House, and reported that the committee had, according to order, met a committee from the Senate in the conference chamber, and jointly with them examined the ballot boxes, and...
الصفحة 63 - Virginia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that all and every act of Parliament, by whatever title known OP distinguished, which renders criminal the maintaining any opinions in matters of religion; forbearing to repair to Church, or the exercising any mode of worship whatsoever, or which prescribes punishments for the same, shall henceforth be of no validity or force within this Commonwealth.
الصفحة 24 - ... interwoven with most other political systems. This we are the more strongly encouraged to expect, by the Declaration of Rights, so universally applauded for that dignity, firmness and precision with which it delineates and asserts the privileges of society, and the prerogatives of human nature; and which we embrace as the magna charta of our commonwealth, that can never be violated without endangering the grand superstructure, it was destined to sustain.
الصفحة 78 - Mr. David Stuart reported from the committee to whom the petitions of James Rumsey and John Fitch were committed, that the committee had according to order, had the same under their consideration, and had...
الصفحة 25 - ... of the northern provinces, compared with this. No one can deny that the more early settlement, and the many superior advantages of our country, would have invited multitudes of artificers, mechanics, and other useful members of society, to fix their habitation among us, who have either remained in their place of nativity, or preferred worse civil governments, and a more barren soil, where they might enjoy the rights of conscience more fully than they had a prospect of doing in this.
الصفحة 25 - Neither can it be made to appear that the Gospel needs any such civil aid. We rather conceive that when our blessed Saviour ' declares his kingdom is not of this world...
الصفحة 63 - Resolved, That so much of an act of Assembly made in the 4th year of the reign of queen iflnne, intituled An act for the effectual suppression of vice, and restraint and punishment of blasphemous, wicked, and dissolute persons...

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