Hazard's _State Papers_ (1792), I, 230-234. This commission, so far as concerns the powers of the governor, followed the commission given in No. 29 above. Cf. _American History and Government_, # 34. [The King, Charles I,] reposing assured Truste and Confidence in the Understanding, Care, Fidelitie, Experience, and Circumspection of you the said Sir _George Yardeley_, _Francis West_, _John Hervey_, _George Sandys_, _John Pott_, _Roger Smith_, _Ralph Hamor_, _Samuell Matthews_, _Abraham Percey_, _William Clayborne_, _William Tacker_, _Jabes Whitacres_, _Edward Blaney_, and _William Farrar_, have nominated and assigned ... you the said Sir _George Yardeley_, to be the present Governour, and you the said John Harvey, and the rest before mentioned to be the present Councell of and for the said _Collony and Plantation in Virginia_, giveing ... unto you full Power and authority to performe and execute the Places, Powers, and Authorities incident to a Governour and Councell of Virginia respectively; and to direct and governe, correct and punish our Subjects ... in Virginia, eyther in tyme of Peace or Warr; and to order and direct the Affaires touching or concerneing that Collony or Plantation in those forreigne parts only; and to execute and performe all and every other Matters and Things concerneing that Plantation, _as fully and amply as any Governour and Councell resident there, at anie time within the Space of Five Years now last past, had or might performe or execute: ..._ [_Observe_ that there is no reference to the Assembly in this document or in the preceding one.] 31. The Colony favors the Policy of the Company _a. The Assembly enacts a precautionary "Bill of Rights," March, 1624_ Hening's _Statutes at Large, being a Collection of the Laws of Virginia_ (1823). Cf. _American History and Government_, # 34. It had become apparent that the King was about to destroy the Company and take over the colony. This Assembly enacted some thirty brief statues. Three are of interest in this connection. 8.--_That the Governor shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the colony their lands or comodities other way than by the authority of the General Assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said Assembly shall appoynt._[20] 9.--The governor shall not withdraw the inhabitants from their private labors to any service of his own upon any colour whatsoever; and in case the publick service require yimployments of many hands before the holding a General Assemblie to give order for the same, in that case the levying of men shall be done by order of the governor and whole body of the counsell, and that in such sorte as to be least burthensome to the people and most free from partiality.