2. The sett[l]ing of Lands and goods and privileges is to be done here, and may be done by calling in the former books and charters at a convenient time. _But the governor may be authorized shortly after his first coming into Virginia to call a grand assembly and there to set down an establishment of the Government, and ordaine laws and orders for the good thereof_, and those to send hither to receive allowance [_i.e._, to be ratified]; and such as shall be soe allowed to be returned thither under the great seal and put in execution, the same to be temporary and changeable at his ma[jes]ties pleasure, signified under the like great seal. [This is the formal restoration of the Virginia Assembly. The meeting in 1628 had been with special sanction for that particular occasion.] _c. Assembly Authorized in a Governor's Instructions, 1641_ _Virginia Magazine of History_, II, 281 ff. These instructions in the matter of the Assembly are said to have been given in the same form to Wyatt in 1639,--the governor who came between Harvey and Berkeley. For the significance of these papers, see _American History and Government_, ## 34-35. _Instructions to Sir Wm. Berkeley, Knt., Governor of Virginia_ * * * * * 4. That you and the Councillors as formerly once a year or oftener if urgent occasion shall require, Do summon the Burgesses of all and singler Plantations there, which together with the Governor and Councill makes the Grand Assembly, and shall have Power to make Acts and Laws for the Government of that Plantation, correspondent, as near as may be, to the Laws of England, in which assembly the Governor is to have a negative voice, as formerly. * * * * * 33. Legislation by the Virginia Assembly as to Morals and Taxes Hening's _Statutes at Large_ (1823). (1) [_March, 1623/4._] 19.--The proclamations for swearing and drunkenness sett out by the governor and counsell are confirmed by this Assembly;--and it is further ordered that the churchwardens shall be sworne to present them to the commanders of every plantation and that the forfeitures shall be collected by them to be for publique uses. 33.--That for defraying of such publique debts our troubles have brought upon us. There shall be levied 10 pounds of tobacco upon every male head above sixteen years of adge now living (not including such as arrived since the beginning of July last). (2) [_October, 1629._]