_Journals of the House of Burgesses_, 1766-1769, 212-218. Tuesday, the 16th of May. 9 Geo. III. 1769. * * * * * ... The Order of the Day being read, for the House to resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the present State of the Colony; _Ordered_, That ... one other Statute made in the Thirty-fifth Year of the same King's Reign [Henry VIII], entituled, _An Act for the Trial of Treasons committed out of the King's Dominions_, be referred to the said Committee. Then the House resolved itself into the said Committee. Mr. _Speaker_ left the Chair. Mr. _Blair_ took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. _Speaker_ resumed the Chair. Mr. _Blair_ reported, from the Committee, that they had come to several Resolutions; which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk's Table, where the same were read, and are as followeth, _viz._ [Resolutions I and II repeat familiar clauses as to right of taxation only by the Virginia Assembly, and as to right of petition for redress of grievances.] [III] _Resolved_, That it is the Opinion of this committee, that all Trials for Treason, Misprison of Treason, or for any Felony or Crime whatsoever, committed and done in this his Majesty's said Colony and Dominion, by any Person or Persons residing therein, ought of Right to be had, and conducted in and before his Majesty's Courts, held within the said Colony, according to the fixed and known Course of Proceeding; and that the seizing any Person or Persons, residing in this Colony, suspected of any Crime whatsoever, committed therein, and sending such Person, or Persons, to Places beyond the Sea, to be tried, is highly Derogatory of the Rights of _British_ Subjects; as thereby the inestimable Privilege of being tried by a _Jury from a Vicinage_ as well as the Liberty of summoning and producing Witnesses on such Trial, will be taken away from the Party accused.... [A fourth resolution declared the purpose of memorializing King George upon the matter of the third resolution.] The said _Resolutions_ being severally read a second Time; _Resolved, Nemine Contradicente,_ That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolutions. * * * * * _Resolved_, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider further of the present State of the Colony. =_Ordered_, That the Speaker of this House do transmit without Delay, to the Speakers of the several Houses of Assembly, on this Continent, a Copy of the Resolutions now agreed to by this House, requesting their Concurrence therein.= _Ordered_, That a Committee be appointed to draw up an Address, to be presented to his Majesty, upon the fourth Resolution of the Committee of the whole House, this Day reported, and agreed to by the House. * * * * * Wednesday, the 17th of May. 9 Geo. III. 1769.