The Legislature of the Province of Virginia Its Internal Development
The Legislature of the Province of Virginia Its Internal Development
Elmer I Elmer Isaiah Miller
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Cit. , i, 263. *Ibid. , i, 444. 249] ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE 7 sessions and prosecuted to execution, he was to have a sus- pension of execution ten days before the next session began, and this suspension was to continue till ten days after the close of the session. 1 A law of 1664 provided that no arrest should be made at James City for the period of five days before and five days after the sessions of the general court and of the assembly, unless the person or persons re- sided in that coun...ty. 2 This was plainly the result of an effort to prevent the interference of the local authorities with the general government, and reminds us of the pur- pose of exclusive congressional control of the District of Columbia. The privilege of freedom from arrest seems to have been considerably modified in 1705. It was then enacted that members should be " in their persons, servants, and estates, both real and personal, free, exempted, and privileged from all arrest, attachments, executions, and all other process whatsoever (save only for treason, felony or breach of the peace) during his or their attendance upon the General Assembly, by the space of ten days before the beginning, and ten days after the conclusion of every session of the Assembly.
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