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CHAP. X.
An Act to revive and continue certain parts of an Act, for ascertaining the fees of certain officers; and for better settling the fees of county court clerks, and sherifs; and of attorneys, in causes depending in the county courts, to be allowed in the bill of costs; and for settling the fee for summoning witnesses, in controversies depending before the Governor and Council; and ascertaining the allowances to such witnesses.
I. BE it 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 passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful, to and for the secretary of this colony, for the time being, and all county court clerks, sherifs, coroners, and constables, respectively, to demand, receive, and take, the several fees herein after-mentioned and allowed, for any business by them respectively
Officer's fees.

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done, by virtue of their several offices, and no other fees whatsoever: (That is to say,)
The Secretary.
Current Money
      s. d.
For making out, sealing, and recording a patent     
      for land, before the same shall be recorded, 		08 0
For making out, sealing, and recording a patent,
      commonly called a double patent, before
      the same shall be recorded 		12 0
For recording every warrant to an escheator, and
      inquisition thereupon; and for a copy thereof, 		11 6
For parchment for every patent, 2 6
For every pass, 10 0
For every instrument, called a freedom for ships,
      and every testimonial, 		10 0
     
Pounds of Tobacco.
For a copy of any patent, if not double, 30
For a copy of a double patent, 45
For the probation of any testament, and recording
      the same, for entring any order for appraising,
      registring an inventory; for writing and sealing
      a probate; and for any other matter concerning
      the same: Or for a commission of administration
      of the goods of any person dying intestate; for
      entring an order for appraisement, registring an
      inventory; and for any other matter concerning
      the same, where the appraisement doth not amount
      clearly over and above the value of fifty pounds, 		250
Where the appraisement amounts to more than that
      value, or where there is no appraisement, 		350
For every search in any case, if above a year, 10
For a copy of a will, or inventory, 40
For a copy of a probat, or commission of
      administration, 		40
For recording deeds of lease and release, and every
      other deed or conveyance; for the conveying or
      settling any lands or tenements, or any way
      concerning the same, acknowledged or proved in
      the general court, and all other matters relating
      thereunto, 		150


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lb. of tob.
For a copy of every such deed, and the indorsements
      thereon; and for a certificate of the acknowledging,
      proving and recording 		90
For recording a letter of attorney, acknowledged
      or proved in the general court; and every thing
      relating to the same, 		70
For a copy thereof, 40
For recording a bond, with condition; or for a
      copy thereof, 		40
For recording any deed concerning negros, or any
      personal matter or thing only, 		70
For a copy thereof, 40
For a writ of error, supersedeas, or scire facias, 25
For every other writ, in any action or suit whatsoever;
      and filing the return, 		20
For filing a bail bond, and entring the bail in the
      bail book, to be kept for that purpose, 		20
For entring special bail, 20
For entring the appearance of the defendant, 10
For entring one attorney for each party, 10
For entring security for costs, for persons out of
      the country, 		20
For filing errors, a declaration, and every plea or
      demurrer, in any cause, to the making up of the
      issue, 		20
For writing every rule, and entring the same in the
      rule-book, 		20
For every order or judgment of court, or for a copy
      thereof, 		10
For the filing all papers offered by the plaintiff, 15
The same for filing the defendant's papers.
For entring every cause upon the docket, when it
      is at issue, 		10
For recording the report of auditors, 40
For swearing the jury, and the witnesses produced
      by the plaintiff, 		40
For swearing the defendant's witnesses, 10
For recording a general verdict, 10
For every case agreed on, put to the court, 25
For drawing up, and recording every special verdict,
      or case at large, from the notes, according to the
      length thereof, for every line, containing twenty
      words, one with another, 		1
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lb. of tobo.
For every continuance after verdict, or demurrer
      joined 		25
For a copy of any declaration, plea or demurrer, 20
For a copy of the notes of a special verdict, 25
For making up the record of every cause, after the
      rate of before-mentioned for the declarations,
      pleadings, verdict, and judgment, therein entred,
      according to the length.
For a copy thereof, the same.
For a copy of an account, 20
For filing bill, answer, replication, or other pleadings
      in chancery, for each, 		15
For a copy thereof, according to the length, for
      every line containing twenty words, one with
      another, 		1
For every order made in court, in a suit in chancery, 10
For drawing up every decree, and recording the
      same, for every line, containing twenty words,
      one with another, 		1
For every dedimus potestatem, 50
For filing all the depositions, in behalf of the
      plaintiff, 		25
For filing all the depositions, in behalf of the
      defendant, 		25
For a copy of the depositions, or recording the
      same, after the same rate as for a copy of a bill,
      or answer.
For a recognisance in court, 20
For recording a certificate of rights, 15
For administring an oath, or affirmation to a quaker,
      in court, except to witnesses before a jury, 		10
For entring an appeal to England, and taking bond, 50
For filing the record, upon an appeal, or writ of
      error, from a county court, 		15
For filing errors thereupon, 15
For a copy of the record, with the errors, according
      to the length thereof, for every line, writ as
      aforesaid, 		1
For taxing the costs, in any action or suit; and a
      copy thereof, 		20
For every order to a witness, for an attendance, 10
For every petition for lapsed land, for writing the
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lb. of tobo.
For every order thereon, 15
For recording a certificate of a probate, or              
      administration, 		40
      II. And be it further enacted, That the several fees before mentioned, shall be charged to the party at whose instance the business aforesaid shall be done or performed: and that the fees herein after mentioned, and allowed to the secretary, shall be charged to the several counties respectively, for whose service the business shall be performed; and shall be, by the justices, levied on the inhabitants thereof, (That is to say,)
lb. of tobo.
For a commission of the peace, and dedimus, to
      administer the oaths, and recording the same, 		160
For a commission of oyer and terminer, and
      dedimus, to administer the oaths, to be repaid
      to the county by the public, 		100
For a writ for election of burgesses, 350
For filing an inquisition upon the view of a dead
      body, and recording the same, 		50
      Which shall be repaid out of the estate of such
person, if the same be sufficient.
The County Court Clerks.
lb. of tobo.
For every writ in any suit, other than such writs      
      as herein after are mentioned, 		10
For a copy thereof, 5
For entring special bail, 10
For every recognisance in court, 10
For every petition, declaration, or other pleadings,
      if wrote by the clerk, 		10
And if such petition, or declaration, be not wrote
      by the clerk, 		5
For filing every declaration, plea, or demurrer, to
      the making up of the issue, if not wrote by the
      clerk, 		5
For filing papers produced by the plaintiff, or
      defendant, other than the pleadings in the cause
      depending between them, 		10
For a copy of a plea, if the general issue, 3
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lb. of tobo.
For the copy of any special pleading, declaration,
      or demurrer, 		10
For every continuance, by imparlance, nihil dicit,
      upon motion of either party, or by consent; and
      for every special order, interlocutory or final
      judgment, 		10
For the copy of an order, or judgment, the same.
For every trial, 10
For swearing witnesses in every trial, 10
For administering an oath in court, not relating to
      or before the trial of any cause there depending,
      and certifying the same, 		10
For recording a general verdict, 10
For recording a special verdict, or case agreed, 25
For a copy of a special verdict, or case agreed;
      and all deeds and writings therein set forth,
      according to the length thereof, for every
      thirty words, 		1
For a deposition, 10
For recording the report of a jury, surveyor, or
      auditors, 		20
For an appeal, and bond, 26
For a copy of the bond, 10
For returning an appeal, and security to the
      secretary's office, 		30
For a copy of the proceedings, according to the
      length, for every line as aforesaid, 		1
For entring one attorney, for each party, 5
For every writ of execution, or scire facias, 15
For a copy thereof, 8
For recording the return, 8
For an attachment in any action, 15
Recording the return, 15
For an attachment granted by a justice of the
      peace, and recording the return, 		20
For filing bill, answer, replication, and other
      pleadings in chancery, for each, 		10
For a copy thereof, according to the length, for
      every thirty words, 		1
For every order in a suit in chancery, and for
      every decree, 		10
For a copy thereof, the same.
For recording a deed for land, from the proprietors
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lb. of tobo.
For recording deeds of lease, and release; for the
      conveying any lands, or tenements acknowledged
      or proved in court, bond to perform covenants,
      certifying the proof, or acknowledgment, and
      all matters relating thereto, 		150
For a copy of such deeds, and the indorsement
      thereon; and the certificate of the acknowledging,
      proving, and recording, 		50
For recording every deed of feofment, or bargain,
      and sale, for the conveying any lands or
      tenements, bond to perform covenants, certifying
      the proof, or acknowledgment, and all matters
      relating thereto, 		100
For a copy of every such deed, and the indorsements
      thereon; and of the certificate of the
      acknowledging, proving, and recording, 		35
For recording every other deed, concerning lands,
      or tenements, or the bounds thereof, certifying
      the proof, or acknowledgment; and all other
      matters relating thereunto, for every twenty
      words, 		1
For a copy of every such deed, and the indorsements
      thereon; and of the certificate of the
      acknowledging, proving or recording, for every
      thirty words, 		1
For recording a letter of attorney, 30
For a certificate, 10
For a copy of a letter of attorney, with a certificate
      of the proof or acknowledgement, 		25
For recording any deed concerning negros, or any
      personal matter or thing only, 		40
For a copy thereof, 30
For the probation of any testament, and recording
      the same, for entring every order, for appraising,
      registring an inventory; and for any other
      matter concerning the same: Or for a commission
      of administration of the goods of any person
      dying intestate, for entring any order for
      appraisement, registring an inventory, or for any
      other matter concerning the same; where the
      appraisement doth not amount clearly to over
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lb. of tobo.
Where the appraisement amounts to more, and
      under one hundred pounds, 		150
And where it shall exceed one hundred pounds, 250
For every search in any case, if above a year, 5
For a copy of a will, or inventory, 30
And if the original will, or inventory, is not
      contained in one sheet of paper, for every
      thirty words more, 		1
For a marriage licence, certificate, or bond, 50
For proving rights and certificate thereof, 13
For taxing a bill of costs, and copy thereof, 11
For a copy of any single act, 40
For recording the age of any servant or slave,
      adjudged in court, 		10
For a certificate thereof, 8
For recording the acknowledgment of satisfaction
      of a judgment, 		10
For a dedimus potestatem, 25
For attending and taking depositions on a dedimus,
      if required, 		100
For a certificate of the departure of any person
      out of this colony, 		15
For attending a court for examination of criminals,
      and trial of slaves, to be paid by the county,
      and repaid by the public, 		200
For a copy of a list of tithables, by a justice, in
      his precinct, 		20
For an ordinary licence, and bond, 50
For a copy of the rates of liquors, 15
For reading any order, or record, half the fee as
      for a copy thereof.
For a copy of the return of any writ, 3
For the copy of any thing not herein particularly
      mentioned, the same fee as is herein before
      expressed, according to the length thereof.
For all public services of the clerk, viz. entring
      and issuing copies of orders; for appointing
      surveyors of the highways, constables, grand-
      juries, taking the list of tithables, attending
      orphans courts, entring guardians accounts, and
      all matters relating thereto: binding out poor
      orphans, and appointing them guardians, entring
      the levy, and copy thereof, and lists of tithables
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lb. of tobo.
      orders for recommending sherifs, and justices,
      and for processioning: To be levied annually,
      by the justices, on the county, besides cask, 		1000
      III. And to the end, all persons chargeable with the paiment of any of the fees aforesaid may certainly know for what the same are charged: Be it further enacted, That no fee or fees herein before mentioned, shall be deemed to be due or paiable, by or from any person or persons whatsoever, until there shall be delivered to the person or persons chargeable with the paiment of the same, a bill or account, in writing of the particular fees, for which any person is or shall be charged; in which said bill or account, is and shall be expressed distinctly, and in words at length, and in the same manner, as the fees aforesaid are allowed, and made paiable by this act, every particular fee, for which any money or tobacco is or shall be demanded or demandable.
To the Sheriff.
lb. of tobo.
For an arrest, bond, and return, 30
For returning a capias non est inventus, 10
For serving any person with an order of court,
      and making return, 		15
For pillorying any person, 20
For putting into the stocks, 10
For ducking any person, 20
For putting into prison, and releasement, 20
For serving a subpœna, to answer in chancery,
      and copy, 		15
For serving a subpœna, for an evidence, in any
      cause depending, except summoned in court, 		10
For summoning an appraiser, auditor, viewer, or
      evidence, to any deed, will, or writing, if
      required to be summoned, but not else, 		10
For summoning, and impannelling a jury in every
      cause where a jury shall be sworn, 		50
For going to Williamsburg, for a commission of
      oyer and terminer, for each mile, to be paid by
      the county, and repaid by the public, 		2
And for each mile returning, to be paid and
      repaid, as aforesaid, 		2
For coming to, and attending the general court,


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lb. tob.
      with the venire, and return thereof, the same as
      is allowed to a venire man; to be paid and
      repaid, as aforesaid.
For summoning a court of oyer and terminer, or
      for the examination of any criminal, and for
      attending; to be paid and repaid, as aforesaid, 		200
For executing each condemned person; and all
      fees incident; to be paid, as aforesaid, 		250
For summoning a jury of escheat, survey, writ of
      dower, partition, inquiry of damages in the
      country, and not in court, if the jury appear, 		150
For making a return of a writ of dower, or partition, 50
For every day's attendance upon a jury in the
      country, after they are sworn to try the issue
      joined 		50
For selling a servant, by order of court, at
      outcry, and all fees incident thereto, 		20
For making proclamation, as the law directs, in
      proving of wills at common law, or in
      proceeding to outlawry, 		20
For serving execution for any debt due in tobacco,
      five per cent. for the first thousand; and two
      per cent. for all above one thousand pounds.
Due in money, five per cent. for the first hundred
      pounds; and two percent. for all above one
      hundred pounds.
For serving a writ of habere facias seisinam, or
      habere facias possessionem, 		50
For serving an attachment upon the body, taking
      bond, and return, 		30
for serving an attachment upon the goods, if sold,
      the same fees as an execution.
If not sold, 30
For serving and returning a general court writ,
      summons, or order, 		30
For keeping and providing for a debtor, in goal,
      each day, 		10
For keeping and providing for a runaway, or
      criminal for each day, 		5
For serving a warrant, 10
For summoning a witness, 5
For public services: (to wit,) For attending the
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lb. of tob.
      impannelling grand juries, publications of writs for
      burgesses, and attendance; serving all public
      orders of court, and all other public and county
      services: To be levied annually, by the justices
      of the county, besides cask, 		1000
The Coroner.
lb. of tob.
For taking an inquisition on a dead body, to be
      paid out of such deceased person's estate, if he      
      left sufficient, if not by the county, 		133
For all other business done by him, the same fees
      as are given to the sheriff, for the same service.


Coroner.
The Constables.
lb. of tob.
For serving a warrant, 10
For summoning a witness, 5
For summoning a coroner's jury, and witnesses
      necessary, 		50
For putting in stocks, 10
For whipping, 20
For serving an execution, or attachment, returnable before
      a justice, 		10


Constables.
      IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of the secretary's office, shall cause to be set up in some public place of the said office, and there constantly kept, a fair copy of the secretary's fees herein before mentioned, on pain of forfeiting two thousand pounds of tobacco for every day the said copy shall be missing through his neglect. And that the clerk of every county court, shall, in like manner, set up a fair copy of all other fees herein before mentioned, in the court house of his county, to be there constantly kept, on pain of forfeiting one thousand pounds of tobacco, for every day the same shall be missing through his neglect: Both which penalties shall be to the person or persons who shall inform or sue for the same; and shall and may be recovered in any court of record, within this dominion. Copy of fees to be set up in office.
      V. And be it further enacted, That if any officer whatsoever, shall claim, charge, demand, exact, or take any more fees, or greater fees, for any business, or writing, or other business whatsoever, within the purvieu

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of this act, than is here set down and ascertained; such officer or person, for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay to the party injured, two thousand pounds of tobacco: To be recovered, with costs, in any court of record within this dominion, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information: Provided, the same be sued for within twelve months after the offence committed.
      VI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed, deemed, and taken, to inflict any of the penalties before mentioned, on any of the said officers, for demanding and taking the fees respectively directed to be taken by them, by one act of assembly, made in the first year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for ascertaining the fees of certain officers therein mentioned, at any time before the publication of this act; for which, two months, after the passing hereof, is hereby allowed.
      VII. And for the better collecting the said tobacco fees, Be it further enacted, That the clerk of the secretary's office, and of every county court, respectively, shall every year, before the twenty fifth day of November, deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the sheriff of every county in this colony, respectively, the accounts of all fees due from any person or persons residing therein; which shall be signed by the said clerk, respectively. And the said sheriff is hereby impowered and repuired, to receive such account, and to collect, levy, and receive, the several quantities of tobacco therein charged, of the several persons chargeable with the same. And if such person or persons, after the said fees shall be demanded, shall refuse or delay to pay the same, till after the tenth day of April, in any year, the sheriff of that county wherein such person inhabits, or of the county in which such fees became due, shall have full power, and is hereby required, to make distress upon the negros, goods, or chattels, of the party so refusing or delaying to pay, either in that county wherein such person inhabits, or where the said fees became due: But no action shall be maintainable for secretary's, or county court clerks fees, unless the sheriff of the county shall return, that the person or persons from whom such fees shall be due and paiable, hath not sufficient within his bailiwick, whereon to make distress. And if any sheriff shall be sued for any thing by him done, in pursuance of this act, he Fees, how collected.

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may plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence.
      VIII. And be it further enacted, That the sheriff of every county, shall, upon or before the last day of May in every year, account with the secretary or his agent, and the clerks of the respective county courts, for all fees put into his hands, pursuant to this act, and pay the same, abating four per cent. for collecting: And the secretary is hereby required to appoint an agent in every county, to receive the sheriff's account, and all tobacco due to him. And if any sheriff shall refuse to account, or pay the whole account of fees put into his hands, after the deductions aforesaid are made, together with an allowanse of such persons as do not dwell, or have no visible estate in his county, it shall and may be lawful for the secretary or clerk, upon a motion made, in the next succeeding general court, or in the court of the county of such sheriff, to demand judgment against such sheriff, for all fees wherewith he shall be chargeable, by virtue of this act; and such court respectively is hereby authorised and required to enter up judgment accordingly, and to award execution thereupon: Provided, That the sheriff have ten days notice of such motion.       Summary proceedings against sheriffs.
      IX. And be it further enacted, That the respective county courts, in every cause where the plaintiff shall recover, or be nonsuited, or where his suit shall be dismiss'd, shall allow in the bill of costs, fifteen shillings, or one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, for an attorney's fee, (if the party emploied one,) except against executors, or administrators, and where the plaintiff may not recover more cost than damage. Lawyers fees.
      X. And whereas divers disputes and controversies do frequently arise, concerning the priority of entries for lands, and their right to obtain patents for the same, which are properly determinable before the governor and council; and for the clearing of the truth therein, witnesses are often necessary, and such witnesses have refused to attend, in regard no allowance hath hitherto been established, for their travelling, and attendance: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That when any controversy shall be depending before the governor and council, it shall and may be lawful for the clerk of the council, and he is hereby impowered and required, at the instance of either Lands, controversies cncerning entries of, determinable before governor & council.


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of the parties to issue a summons, directed to the sheriff of any county wherein the witnesses desired to be summoned, shall reside, which summons, the said sheriff shall duly execute and return; and shall be paid and allowed, by the party on whose behalf the same was executed, thirty pounds of tobacco, or three shillings current money, at the election of the party chargeable therewith; and every such witness so summoned and attending, shall be paid for travelling, and for each day he shall attend at Williamsburg, the like allowance as is given by law, for witnesses summoned to and attending at the general court: And where the governor and council shall judge either of the parties, in any matter coming before them, to have given unjust vexation, it shall and may be lawful to award the allowance to the said witnesses, and all other costs, to be repaid by such party, to the party injured. Allowance.



How paid.



      XI. Provided always, That it shall be in the election of the person or persons chargeable with the paiment of the said allowances for witnesses, in any of the matters depending before the governor and council to discharge the same, either in tobacco or current money, at the rate of ten shillings for every hundred pounds thereof, Payable in tobacco.
      XII. Provided also, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed, deemed, or taken, to give any power or authority to the council-board, to hold plea of any matter or thing properly cognisable in his majesty's courts of common law. Proviso.
      XIII. And this act shall be adjudged and taken to be a public act, and shall remain and be in force, from the commencement of the same, for two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of assembly. Limitation of this act.
CHAP. XI.
An Act for lessening the Reward for killing Young Wolves; and for preventing Frauds in obtaining Certificates for Wolves-Heads.
I. WHEREAS the large reward allowed by law for killing of wolves, hath frequently been a temptation to many ill-disposed persons to be guilty of
Preamble.

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unfair practices, in order to obtain certificates to entitle them to the said reward; and the reward being the same for killing a young wolf as an old one, divers persons have been induced to spare the breading wolves, for the advantage of taking their future increase: for remedy whereof,
      II. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the reward of one hundred pounds of tobacco, and no more, shall be paid for every wolf killed or destroied within this colony, not exceeding the age of six months; to be adjudged of by the justice before whom the head shall be brought: and that no justice shall grant a certificate to any person whatsoever, for any scalp, to entitle him or her to the reward allowed by law for killing of wolves, but that the whole head of the wolf shall be first produced to such justice; neither shall any such certificate be granted, until proof shall be made before snch justice, by the oath of such wolf-killer, if a christian, above the age of fourteen years, (Quakers excepted) in the following words: Reward for killing Wolves.




Whole head to be produced, and oath made.
I A. B. do solemnly swear, that this head by me now produced, is the head of a wolf, (or if more than one head, That these heads by me now produc'd are the heads of wolves,) first taken and killed within the county of C. in Virginia; and that I have not wittingly or willing spared the life of any bitch wolf in my power to kill, since the making of the act of assembly, intituled, An Act for lessening the Reward for killing young Wolves; and for preventing Frauds in obtaining Certificates for Wolves-Heads.
Form of oath.
And if such wolf killer shall happen to be one of the people commonly called Quakers, and above the age of fourteen years, he shall take his solemn affirmation to the same effect; but if such wolf-killer be a christian, under the age aforesaid, or a tributary indian, or a mulatto, or negro, then such justice shall, instead of such oath or affirmation, admit of any other evidence, testimony, or circumstance, in his discretion convincing. Quakers may affirm.


Other proof.
      III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if any person whatsoever, shall take a false oath, or affirmation, before any justice, in order to the Penalty, for false oath, or affirmation.

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obtaining a certificate as aforesaid, such person being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer the same pains and penalties, as if he or she had been guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, in a court of record: And moreover, shall forfeit and pay one thousand pounds of tobacco; one moiety thereof, to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors, for the better support of this government, and the contingent charges thereof; and the other moiety to him, her, or them, that will inform, or sue for the same: To be recovered, with costs, in any court of record within this dominion.
      IV. Provided always, That if any justice, before whom oath or affirmation shall be made, according to the directions of this act, shall suspect the truth of such oath or affirmation, such justice shall delay granting a certificate thereupon, until the next court to be held for his county, where he shall communicate his reasons for such suspicion, in the presence of the suspected persons, who may make his defence; and the court shall determine whether the same be good or not, and the said justice shall proceed accordingly; any law, or usage to the contrary of any of the premises, in any wise, notwithstanding. When justices may delay giving certificate.
CHAP. XII.
An Act for adding part of the Counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, unto the County of Brunswick; and part of the Parishes of Lawn's-Creek, Southward, and Warwicksqueak, in the said Counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, unto the Parish of St. Andrew, in the said County of Brunswick.
I. WHEREAS by reason of the small number of tithables in the county of Brunswick, the poll taxes must necessarily be very grievous and burthensome to them; which, by an addition of part of the counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, would be remedied, and divers of the inhabitants of the two last mentioned counties, would thereby also be freed from hardships and inconveniences, which at present they labour under, with respect to the remoteness of their situation from the court-houses of their said counties, and their parish churches, respectively; and after such addition,
Preamble.

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there will remain a sufficient number of tithables in the said counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, respectively, to bear the public taxes:
      II. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and by the authority thereof, That from and after the first day of January, next after the end of this session of assembly, those parts of the said counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, which lie between, and are included with the bounds hereafter mentioned, and the lower bounds of the said county of Brunswick, as it now stands, (that is to say,) a straight line to be run from the mouth of a branch of Nottoway river, called Chetacrie, between colonel Harrisons quarter, and Matthew Parham's in the said county of Surry, to Meherrin river, to the line dividing the said counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, and from thence down that river, to the line dividing this country, and North Carolina, be annexed and united to the said county of Brunswick, and for ever thereafter shall be taken and reputed as parcel thereof; and be divided an exempt from the said counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, respectively, and from all dependances, offices, and charges, for or in respect thereof, and also discharged from all duties whatsoever, relating to the same. Boundaries of Brunswick altered.








Surry and Isle of Wight.
      III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That those parts of the said counties of Surry, and Isle of Wight, so as aforesaid annexed and united to the said county of Brunswick, be also from and after the said first day of January, annexed and united to the parish of Saint Andrew, in the said county of Brunswick, and be divided and exempt from the parishes of Lawn's-Creek, and Southwark, in the said county of Surry, and the parish of Warwicksqueak, in the said county of Isle of Wight, respectively, to which the same do at present belong; and all dependances, offices, charges, and contributions, for and in respect thereof, and all parochial duties whatsoever, relating to the same; any law or usage to the contrary of any of the premises, in any wise, notwithstanding. And of St. Andrew's parish.

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