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Kaminski, John P.; Saladino, Gaspare J.; Leffler, Richard; Schoenleber, Charles H.; Carlson, Marybeth (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Virginia (1)
8 (1988)
Note on sources, pp. xl-xlvii
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Note on Sources Legislative Records The manuscript sources for the October 1787 [15 October 1787- 8 January 1788] and the June 1788 [23-30 June] sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates are in the Virginia State Library. These sources include: (1) the Journals; (2) the minute books (October 1787 session only); (3) the attendance books (June 1788 session only); (4) the legislative petitions; and (5) the papers, consisting mostly of drafts of resolutions and bills. The House Journals for 1787 and 1788, were both published in 1788 (Evans 21556-57) and then reprinted in 1828. The Journal for 1788, however, is available only in the 1828 reprint edition. Neither the manuscript nor the contemporary printed journals of the October 1787 and the June 1788 sessions of the Senate have been located. At least one of these contemporary versions was available in 1828 when they were reprinted. The legislative rosters for the House and the Senate are taken from Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members (Rich- mond, 1978). The acts passed in these two sessions were published in 1788 as Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia ... (Evans 21548-50). These acts are also printed in William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (13 vols., Richmond and Philadelphia, 1809-1823). The debates of 25 October 1787 on the resolutions for calling a state convention were printed in the Peters- burg Virginia Gazette on 1 November. The legislature ordered two thousand broadside copies of these resolutions printed and distributed (Evans 20839). Executive Records The executive records at the Virginia State Library include: (1) the Executive Letter Books, the governor's outgoing correspondence; (2) the Executive Papers, the governor's incoming correspondence; (3) the Executive Communications, mostly official incoming correspondence from other state executives and messages to the legislature; (4) the Continental Congress Papers, letters to and from Congress and del- egates to Congress; and (5) the Journals of the Council of State. Much of the governor's incoming correspondence and other executive and administrative material have been printed in William P. Palmer et al., eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers... (11 vols., Richmond, 1875- xl
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