The Statutes at Large - Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, From the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619; Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February,... #247720

So early as the year 1666, the question was agitated whether the governor and council, who exercised legislative functions, could take any part in laying taxes, then called levies. The house of bur gesses insisted on their privilege of laying the taxes in their awn house which was deemed satisfactory, and desired to remain (in record for a rule to walk by for the future. (0)