the Virginia House
of Burgesses that led to the creation of Loudoun County in May, 1757.
The act authorizing the division of Fairfax and establishment of
Loudoun is given intact:

On April 20, 1757, a "petition of sundry Inhabitants of
_Fairfax_ County, praying a Division of the said County, was
presented to the House and read, and referred to the
Consideration of the next Session of Assembly."

On Friday, April 22, 1757, "Mr. _Charles Carter_, from the
Committee on Propositions and Grievances, reported, that the
Committee had had under their Consideration divers
Propositions, from several Counties, to them referred, and
had come to several Resolutions thereupon, which he read in
in Place, and then delivered in at the Table, where the same
were again twice read, and agreed to by the House, as
follow:"

"_Resolved_, That the Petition of sundry Back-Inhabitants of
the said County of _Fairfax_, praying the same may be divided
into two distinct Counties, by a Line from the Mouth up the
main Branch of _Difficult_-Run to the Head thereof, and
thence by a streight Line to the Mouth of _Rocky_-Run, is
reasonable."

The following Monday the bill was again presented to the
House by Charles Carter, of the Committee of Propositions
and Grievances, and Friday, April 29, 1757, was ordered
engrossed and read a third time.

Monday, May 2, 1757, the engrossed Bill, entitled, "An Act for
dividing the county of Fairfax," was read a third time, passed by the
House, and sent to the Council for their "concurrence." It received
the assent of the governor Wednesday, June 8, 1757.

_An Act for Dividing the County of Fairfax._ (Passed May 2,
1757.)

I. WHEREAS, Many inconveniences attend the upper
inhabitants of the county of Fairfax, by reason of the large
extent of the said county, and their remote situation from
the court-house, and the said inhabitants have petitioned
this present general assembly that the said county may be
divided: Be it, therefore, enacted, by the
Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses of this present
General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority
of the same, That from and after the 1st day of July next
ensuing the said county of Fairfax be divided into two
counties, that is to say: All that part thereof, lying above
Difficult-run, which falls into Patowmack rive