CI.--All principal Officers in [for] Virginia, namely the Governour, Lieutenant Governour, Admirall, Marshal, chiefe Justice, and Treasuror, shall be chosen here _by Ballating_ in a Quarter-Court. CII.--The Counseil established in Virginia, and all other Officers there reserved to the choise of the Companie here, shall be chosen in a Quarter-Court by onely erection of hands; _unlesse the Court desire to have it passe by Ballating_. [The frequent reference to the ballot in these rules is a sufficient answer to an absurd claim that the English colonies had to learn that device from Holland. Cf. _American History and Government_, # 77. The use of the ballot is referred to frequently in the Company's _Records_, in accounts of elections under these rules, as in _Records_, I, 315, 368, 385, 440, 468, 471, 474, 489; II, 28, 29, 154, 536, 537.] 24. An Order of the London Company as to Self-government February 2/12, 1619/20 _Records of the Virginia Company in London_ (edited by Susan Kingsbury; Washington, 1906), I, 303. This order, to provide for temporary self-government in new colonies under the jurisdiction of the Company, was adopted on the same day that the Company made four grants of land to companies expecting to settle in "Virginia." One of these grants was to John Pierce and his Associates. Pierce was one of the London partners of the Mayflower Pilgrims. The order below _may_ therefore have suggested to the Pilgrims the Mayflower Compact (No. 52 below). It was ordered by generall Consent that such Captaines or Leaders of Perticulerr Plantacions that shall goe there to inhabite ... in Virginia, shall have liberty, till a forme of Goverment bee here settled for them, Associatinge unto them divers of the gravest and discreetes of their companies, to make Orders, Ordinances, and Constitucions for the better orderinge and dyrectinge of their Servants and buisines, Provided they be not Repugnant to the Lawes of England. 25. The First Representative Assembly in America July 30/August 9, 1619 Stith and Hening (Nos. 16, 17), those early and zealous explorers in Virginian records, both believed that no record of this great Assembly was extant. George Bancroft, however, found a copy in the London Record Office, in 1856, and published it in the _New York Historical Society Collections_ of 1857. A somewhat more critical text was published in 1874 by Wynne and Gilman, in their thin volume of _Colonial Records of Virginia_. The record was made by John Twine, Clerk of the Assembly. It is printed here almost in full. _A reporte of the manner of proceeding in the General assembly convented at James citty in Virginia, July 30, 1619, consisting of the Governor, the Counsell of Estate and two Burgesses elected out of eache Incorporation and Plantation, and being dissolved the 4th of August next ensuing._