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be communicated they have expressed themselves so fully in the
Matters as Leave me no room to add any thing but that
I have the Honour to be with great truth
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Your most Obedient Hum.le Sert
The Hon.le the Speaker of the
Ebenezer Silliman
House of Burgesses in Virginia
[Endorsed on back] June 24, 1773.
Resolves inclosed.
In the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut.
Friday the 21.st May 13. Geo. 3.d 1773.
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M.r Speaker having laid before the house, a Letter from the
Speaker of, and certain Resolutions entered into by the House of
Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia, on the 12.th of March last, Viz:
Whereas the Minds of his Majesty's faithful Subjects in this
Colony, have been much disturbed by various Rumors and Reports
of Proceedings, tending to deprive them of their ancient legal and
constitutional Rights.
And whereas the affairs of this Colony are frequently connected
with those of Great Britain, as well as of the neighbouring Colonies
which renders a Communication of Sentiments necessary. In order
therefore to remove the Uneasiness and quiet the Minds of the
People, as well as for the other good Purposes above mentioned.
Be it Resolved, that a standing Committee of Correspondence
and Inquiry be appointed to consist of eleven Persons to wit, the
honorable Peyton Randolph Esquire, Robert Carter Nicholas, Rich-
ard Bland, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendle-
ton, Patrick Henry, Dudley Digges; Dabney Carr, Archibald Gary
and Thomas Jefferson esquires, any six of whom to be a Committee,
whose business it shall be to obtain the most early and authentic
Intelligence, of all such Acts and Resolutions of the British Parlia-
ment or Proceedings of Administration, as may relate to or affect
the British Colonies in America, and to keep up and maintain a
Correspondence and Communication with our Sister Colonies, re-
specting these important Considerations, & the Result of such their
proceedings from time to time to lay before this House.
Resolved that it be an Instruction to the said Committee that they
do, without Delay, inform themselves particularly of the Principles
and Authority, on which was constituted a Court of Inquiry, said
to have been lately held in Rhode Island, with powers to transport
persons accused of offences committed in America to Places beyond
the Seas to be tried.
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