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This was an almanac published in Philadelphia in 1795.^[1]

Extract, 1794

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VIRGINIA.

Length, 446 miles; breadth, 224; square miles, 70,000; inhabitants, 747,610; counties, 82. The counties are as follows:

West of the Blue Ridge, 15.
Ohio,	Washington,	Frederick,
Monongalia,	Greenbrier,	Shenandoah,
Montgomery,	Kanawa,	Rockingham,
Wythe,	Hampshire,	Augusta,
Botetort,	Berkley,	Rockbridge.
Between the Blue Ridge and Tide Water, 24.
Loudoun,	Albemarle,	Prince Edward,
Fauquier,	Amherst,	Cumberland,
Culpepper,	Buckingham,	Powhatan,
Spotsylvania,	Bedford,	Amelia,
Orange,	Henry,	Nottaway,
Louisa,	Pittsylvania,	Lunenburg,
Goochland,	Halifax,	Mecklenburg,
Flavania,	Charlotte,	Brunswick.
Between James River and Carolina, 11.
Greensville,	Surry,	Nansemond,
Dinwiddie,	Sussex,	Norfolk,
Chesterfield,	Southampton,	Princess Ann
Prince George,	Isle of Wight,
Between James and York Rivers, 9.
Hanover,	Henrico,	James City,
New Kent,	Williamsburg,	Warwick,
Charles City,	York,	Elizabeth City.
Between York and Rappahannoc Rivers, 6.
Caroline,	King William,	Middlesex,
King and Queen,	Essex,	Gloucester,
Between Rappahannoc and Potomac Rivers, 8.
Fairfax,	King George,	Northumberland,
Prince William,	Richmond,	Lancaster.
Stafford,	Westmoreland,
Eastern Shore, 2.
Accomac,	Northampton,
New Counties, 7.
Campbell,	Randolph,	Pendleton,
Franklin,	Hardy,	Russel,
Harrison,

Brief Abstract from the Constitution.

IN Virginia the supreme executive magistrate, or governor, the privy council, judges of the superior courts, auditors, attorney-general. treasurer, register of the land office, and generals of the militia, are appointed by the legislature; justices of the peace are recommended by the county courts, and military officers, other than generals, by the county and corporation courts, and commissioned by the executive; clerks of the courts, sheriffs and coroners are appointed by the respective courts, the two latter to be approved by the executive; and constables, by the justices.

The legislature consists of a senate and house of delegates; the senate, of twenty-four members. who are divided into four classes, and the seats of one class vacated every year; the house of delegates, of two members from each county, one from each of the cities of Richmond and Williamsburg, and one from the borough of Norfolk; who, with one class of the senate, are elected annually. Senators are required to be twenty-five years of age; and both senators and delegates to be freeholders, resident, at the time of their election, in the county or district for which they are respectively chosen; and to be elected by freeholders, seized of one hundred acres of uninhabited land, or of twenty-five acres with a house, or of a house or lot in some town.

The governor is elected annually, and is ineligible more than three, in seven years.–—The privy council, or council of state, consists of eight members; and may be elected either from the legislature, or the citizens at large. Two members are, once every three years removed, and their places supplied, by the joint ballot of both houses; and the persons so removed are ineligibl during the next three years. The eldest counsellor is, ex officie lieutenant governor.

The judges of the superior courts hold their offices during behaviour. The treasurer is elected annually.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
John Pride, speaker	} of the senate.
Humphrey Brooke, clerk
Thomas Matthews, speaker	} of the house of delega
Charles Hay, clerk
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Henry Lee, governor; salary, £ 300.
Counsellors.
James Wood, lieut. gov.	John Dawson,
Robert Goode,	John Steel,
Hardin Burnley,	Carter Baxter,
Edmund B. Harrison,	Larkin Smith.
Salary, £ 280, each.
Archibald Blair, clerk	]to the council.
Samuel Coleman, assistant clerk
Jaquelin Ambler, treasurer; £600.
Charles Lewis, register of the land office; £450, for himself and clerks.
JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT,
Court of Appeals.
Edmund Pendleton,	chief justice of the state; £300.
Peter Lyons,	}justices; £300 each.
Paul Carrington,
William Fleming,
Henry Tazewell,
John Brown, clerk.
High Court of Chancery,
George Wythe, chancellor; £300.
William Hay, master in chancery.
Peter Tinsley, clerk in chancery.
General Court,
Joseph Prentis, chief judge.	John Tyler,
St. George Tucker,	Joseph Jones,
Richard Parker,	Spencer Roane,
Edmund Winston,	William Nelson,
James Henry,	Robert White,
Salary, £300, each.
John Brown, clerk.
James Innes, attorney-general; £250.
John Pendleton, auditor and solicitor; £300.

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See also

• S. Bassett French Biographical Sketch
• Other Related Wythepedia Pages

References

1. ↑ The United States Register, for the Year 1795; Being the 19—20th of National Sovereignty (Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1794).

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