Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Blair took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Blair reported, from the Committee, that they had come to several Resolutions; which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk's Table, where the same were read, and are as followeth, viz.
[Resolutions I and II repeat familiar clauses as to right of taxation only by the Virginia Assembly, and as to right of petition for redress of grievances.]
[III] Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this committee, that all Trials for Treason, Misprison of Treason, or for any Felony or Crime whatsoever, committed and done in this his Majesty's said Colony and Dominion, by any Person or Persons residing therein, ought of Right to be had, and conducted in and before his Majesty's Courts, held within the said Colony, according to the fixed and known Course of Proceeding; and that the seizing any Person or Persons, residing in this Colony, suspected of any Crime whatsoever, committed therein, and sending such Person, or Persons, to Places beyond the Sea, to be tried, is highly Derogatory of the Rights of British Subjects; as thereby the inestimable Privilege of being tried by a Jury from a Vicinage as well as the Liberty of summoning and producing Witnesses on such Trial, will be taken away from the Party accused....
[A fourth resolution declared the purpose of memorializing King George upon the matter of the third resolution.]
The said Resolutions being severally read a second Time;
Resolved, Nemine Contradicente,
That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolutions.