Notes kept by Godfrey Pole, clerk of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Committee of Propositions and Grievances, the body responsible for considering proposed bills. Include minutes, 1722; petitions, 1726, concerning the financial state of the College of William and Mary; speeches, 1714-1722, of Governor Alexander Spotswood concerning King George I, protection of the Virginia's frontier from Indian raids and a treaty with the Indians of the Five Nations; messages, 1718-1727, of the Virginia House of Burgesses and Council to governors concerning Indians, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Indian Company, and construction of a lighthouse at Cape Henry; petitions, 1718-1727, concerning licensing of pilots on the Chesapeake Bay, salary of the Williamsburg jailkeeper, hiring out slave prisoners, a sheriff's appointment in Elizabeth City County, Va., and a pirate's pardon; petitions, 1723, 1726, concerning the establishment of towns and counties, tobacco and legal currency; reports, 1718-1728, concerning slaves accused of planning an insurrection in 1723, parish boundaries, ferries, Quakers, salaries of members of the House of Burgesses, inventory of Capitol furniture, and an inspection of the accounts of the Treasurer of Virginia; bills and amendments, 1713-1730, concerning tobacco importation, appointments of government officials, the Virginia militia, liquor duties, post offices, slave trials, the slave trade, maintenance of river debris; speeches, 1720-1728, of Thomas Barnes, William Hopkins, and Philip Lightfoot, members of the Virginia House of Burgesses; lists, 1718-1726, of acts passed by the Virginia General Assembly; documents relating to legal decisions of the Virginia General Court; lists, 1722-1726, of tithables in Virginia by county.
