Petition of the Committee of Chesterfield County, 1775 July 25.

To the Honourable the delegates of the Several Counties and Corporations of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, met in convention at Richmond.

The Memorial of the committee of and for the County of Chesterfield

Sheweth

That it has been doubted, whether the company of Volunteers raised for the defense of the Colony in the Several Counties are under the command of the officers of the Milittia, and if they are not, it is to be feared, that many inconveniences may follow, not only from the [distenet?] powers of the two orders, but from one of them assuming an authority independent of any Military Control by Law established and that your memorialists have the more reason to apprehend some such inconveniences, from a late transaction in this County, where a dispute of this kind produced some disorderly behaviour in a muster field

Your memorialists therefore hope that the Convention will take the matter into Consideration and make such regulations therein, as to them in their Wisdom, shall seem meet.

Signed by order and in behalf of the Committee for the County of Chesterfield

Bernard Markham Chairman

Chesterfield Petition

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1775-6