At the light-colored extreme are rocks made up mainly of quartz and the feldspars, with about 70% silica. Such rocks are called granitic rock. Rocks which contain large amounts of the ferromagnesian dark matter and about 50% silica are said to have basaltic composition.
It became the House of Burgesses â the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives.
The governor chose the members of his Council, and the people of the colony chose the men going to the House of Burgesses. The governorâs role was to be the head of the government. In most cases, he had the final say, as he served first as the Virginia Companyâs representative in the colony. He also had veto power, over laws that the Council and House of Burgesses passed. 40 The Council consisted of a group of important men in the colony chosen by the governor. Some of them had served in the House of Burgesses while others were lower nobility from England.