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| | Part II foot note #4 Charter creating the Council of State,1621, page 29 |
 | | To all people, to whom these presents shall come, be seen, or heard, the treasurer, council, and company of adventurers and planters for the city of London for the first colony of Virginia, send greeting. |
 | | We therefore, the said treasurer, council, and company, by authority directed to us from his majesty under the great seal, upon mature deliberation, do hereby order and declare, that, from hence forward, there shall be two supreme councils in Virginia, for the better government of the said colony aforesaid. |
 | | And this council, to be always, or for the most part, residing about or near the governor. |
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