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Resolution for procuring a territory to which free persons of colour may be removed. 1816 200 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0264 and id is 1 raw text is: R ESO LUTIONS. NO. 1.-Resolution for procuring a territor'y to which Cree pe:ons of cclour mayi he rcinovcel. WIIE1REAS the General Assembly of Virginia have repeatedly sougit to obtain an as'lni, hyond the liiiits of' tle, United States, f1r uliell por- s)uns a' 0eolour. as had been, or minght he' .naneilat ed idmdu i he laws or this coliuiwtllmali, int have hitherlo found. all ilil.' efluti s, f'. ile ae- ColiIplishitent of' thii de.ii'able lill-ipose, i-iu4tratel, eil'.i by I ld; (listtub- cid state ot'otiev nations, o1' iloiui'stie cauies eequilly 1liliropiliou's to its sUccess ''h y now avail tliemselves of a period. when pence has heuled the uolilis of hutiiualliiy, anid tie prineilrl niions il' urolie hav, ,oneurrid, mvilh the government i' lhc *Uiited Slai,;, ili aJoi~liihitog it A'riain slave, tradle, (ai ti'iifl which thiCis einlinommiI hi, both itl io. ii1 sline tle t'(,vo- Iltion, Zcalitsly soll-iM to l'inhlliate,) to ,ileew liis vlii'ot. aid 10 thetlre- fore resolve, that the eecultive ho rellle o Ii ,,irelOiltul with hle, l'esi- dent of the United Stf-i,'s, tO tilel' llio oiobtaining a iervilorv i upoii the consi of Al'iva, or uplln tlie shot. il, 1Vt Nil i T;ii ic. or, 'it Soite o- ther place (lot within ay ohf t le states or tervitoriai govermeits io ( lie Uh ied States, tn serve a.is an asylili iflu' s ich 1w'isons of' Cohlir, as are llow free, and miay dcire the sallie, a11n4d For Olose wihlo liay lie herelafte cmlnipateil, wvihin this aoiiiidnw,:thth ; :1lld that thei sCliitOls and re- presentatives i' o his state in (lt eolll'tsS ir I1iec [vilhd States lie re(tIcSteil tI exttlhir lihe, . elloilts o aid the presiden hit. of ihe T lited Slates ill the ttiiinniant of lt abov( object : Inrotf((t, I liat ito coltract o allrange- imnlit reispecting sich lcrr-ilot shall be olliigatory on lhis cinionwealth intil ratlicil by tho Legislature. [-,.'grccd to by both Houses, Deermber 2!/, 181 No. 2.--Resoltition on the subject of the diiposal cf the fword intended for lieutenant Join .. Yarnall. WIIERIAS, by a resolttion or the General Assembly, passed on tle first day ot January, in the year (illH tlotsan(d eight hindred and lt'ulitiren, the governor o' ihis commonwealth was'cqiied (a p,,sent, in tequ eistit ol' le Assllibly, to lieutenant John J1. Ya'rnall, li aiplropriate SwO'd, ol'oimeniorativo of'his gallhant conduct in the action between tho fleet. uindel, (lie connmnd of ow hierohi' conlineldore Perryind hlat of the B itish unelr thle command of iptaiii Barclay, on lake Eric; and whereas tle said John .1. Yarnall was, on board the United States brig Epervie' at the tine she was lost : Resolveed, ther'eforc, by tlhe Gcnoral Assembly, that the governor or this Commonwealth ie. andi he is hl'elry 'cquestcd to prest-nlt, ill tile name of' the Get'al Asseil)ly, the said sword to Peter TYarnall, th e Old- cst hrothel f' the said John J. Yarijall, is a testimonial of tle merit (it' his deeascd bro lher' ; saving howevel' to all other repit'ciatives of thie. said Johu J. Yarnnil, all interest in tho same to which they may be enti1- tied. [4 igreed to by both Iionses, Febru1ry 18111 1817.

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