
Extracts from the
General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Virginia,
House ~
24 February
a. d. 2006
Senate ~
2 March
a. d. 2006
House Joint Resolution No. 304
The 4th "WHEREAS"...
the 1606 Virginia Charter stated that
the Virginia Company, which existed from 1606 to 1624,
promoted the spreading of Christianity overseas by
"accepting of their desires to the furtherance of so noble a work... in propagating of Christian religion"; and
The 8th "WHEREAS"...
the assembly that gathered
in 1619 opened with a prayer and an oath, the equivalent of a pledge of allegiance, and
enacted the founding of America's first college campus to be along the James River at the 1611 Citie of Henricus; and
RESOLVED by
the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, that the General Assembly hereby commend the
400th Anniversary Celebration of
the 1606 First Virginia Charter, which may be thought of as the birth of American civilization, and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this
resolution for presentation to Chancellor Steven C. Smith and Henricus Colledge (1619)(R) as an expression of the General Assembly of Virginia's appreciation for the importance of the 1606 First Virginia Charter.