[ 23 ] Robert A. Rutland, ed., Papers of George Mason, 3 vols. (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1970), I, 65-73.
[ 24 ] For the full text of Bland's Inquiry, see Van Schreeven and Scribner, Revolutionary America, I, 27-44.
[ 25 ] J. Steven Watson, THE REIGN OF GEORGE III (Oxford, 1960), 4.
[ 26 ] Ibid. (From 1710 to 1768 the governor for Virginia did not reside in the colony, choosing instead to accept a fixed salary and agreeing to send in his stead a lieutenant-governor who actually exercised all the power. This system ended with Amherst and his lieutenant-governor, Francis Fauquier, who died in March 1768.)
[ 27 ] For the resolution see, Van Schreeven and Scribner, Revolutionary Virginia, I, 89-92. Also note that this committee consists of men who ware on opposite sides of the fence in the Stamp Act debate in 1765.