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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