The Virginia Gazette

We have the pleasure to assure our readers that the Hon. House of Representatives, on Friday last, came into certain resolutions ; which, as they have ordered them to be made public, we have a right, without incurring the displeasure of any one, to insert in this paper, and are as follow, viz.

Whereas the happiness and wellbeing of civil communities depend upon industry, economy, and good morals; and this House taking into serious consideration the great decay of the trade of the province, the scarcity of money, the heavy debt contracted in the late war (which still remains upon the people) and the great difficulties to which they are by these means reduced,

Resolved, That this House will use their utmost endeavours, and enforce their endeavours by example, in suppressing extravagance, idleness, and vice, and in promoting industry, economy, and good morals, in their respective towns.

And in order to prevent the unnecessary exportation of money, of which this province has of late been so much drained, it is further resolved that this House will, by all prudent means, endeavour to discountenance the use of foreign superfluities, and to encourage the manufactures of this province.

It is hoped that this will be thought by our brethren in the other colonies, as well as in Great Britain, to be an ample testimony of the sense of this province, in confirmation of the measures of the town of Boston; and that the True Patriot, like a man of honour, will retract his positive assertion that those measures were only the last efforts of an expiring faction.