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Patrick Henry ' s speech on the Virginia Resolves (1851 painting by Peter F. Rothermel). The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions passed on May 29, 1765, by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act 1765, which had imposed a tax on the British colonies in North America requiring that material be printed on paper made in London which carried an embossed revenue stamp.
Division 3: Cabinet, License, Criminal Investigation Department; Division 4:Transport, Communication, and Traffic; Division 5: Quartermaster, Procurement Office; Division 6:Training and Police Band; Division 7: Divisional Headquarter including the Coroneo Jail, The Jesuits and Tigor Street Jails. The last two were in use until 1952.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General.DCIS protects military personnel by investigating cases of fraud, bribery, and corruption; preventing the illegal transfer of sensitive defense technologies to proscribed nations and criminal elements; investigating companies that use defective ...
USIS (US Investigation Services) was a US corporation that provided security-based information and service solutions to both government and corporate customers, in the United States and abroad. Its corporate headquarters were in Falls Church, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C. [1] Training took place in Boyers, Pennsylvania.
The Braintree Instructions was a document sent on September 24, 1765 by the town meeting of Braintree, Massachusetts to the town's representative at the Massachusetts General Court, or legislature, which instructed the representative to oppose the Stamp Act 1765, a tax regime which had recently been adopted by the British Parliament in London.
The Fincastle Resolutions was a statement reportedly adopted on January 20, 1775, by fifteen elected representatives of Fincastle County, Virginia.Part of the political movement that became the American Revolution, the resolutions were addressed to Virginia's delegation at the First Continental Congress, and expressed support for Congress' resistance to the Intolerable Acts, issued in 1774 by ...
Jun. 18—richmond, va. — Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Monday that a new Elder Abuse Investigation Center was coming to Central Virginia. Attorney General Miyares was joined by ...
Jefferson wrote the 1798 Resolutions. The author of the 1799 Resolutions is not known with certainty. [4] Both resolutions were stewarded by John Breckinridge who was falsely believed to have been their author. [5] James Madison wrote the Virginia Resolution. The Virginia General Assembly passed it on December 24, 1798.