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| ANNO REGNI GEORGII II. Regis Magnæ, Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, tricesimo tertio. 
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Francis Fauquier, esq. governor. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it is necessary for his majesty's service, and the further security and protection of the frontiers of this colony, that the regiment now in the service of this colony should be further retained from the first day of May next, to which time they now | Regiment further continued in service. |
| stand provided for: 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 so much money as shall be necessary for the subsistence and pay of the said regiment, from the said first day of May to the first day of November following, shall be paid by John Robinson, esquire, treasurer of this colony, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed by, or pursuant to, an act of assembly, out of the publick money that shall come to his hands, by virtue of this act, to such person or persons, as shall be directed by warrant from the governor or commander in chief of this colony for the time being: Provided always, that three hundred men, part of the said regiment, shall be stationed in such manner for the defence and protection of the inhabitants on the south western frontiers of this colony, as the governor, or commander in chief of this dominion for the time being, shall think fit to order and direct; and the governor, or commander in chief of this dominion for the time being, may order and direct the remaining part of the said regiment to continue in conjunction with his majesty's forces, and be employed in such manner as the commander in chief of his majesty's forces shall appoint and direct; and if, by any authority whatsoever, they shall be detained or prevented from proceeding to such places, and upon such services, as the governor or commander in chief shall direct, after the said first day of November next, their pay and subsistence hereby given shall cease, and they shall not be deemed or taken to be in the service or pay of this colony, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. | |
| II. And whereas it may be found expedient to have a small body of forces still on foot, after the said first day of November next, to protect and defend the inhabitants on the frontiers of this colony from any insults that may be offered to them by the neighbouring Indians, and to keep such Indians in awe; Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the governor, or commander in chief of this colony for the time being, and he is hereby impowered and desired, if he shall think it necessary, to continue the said three hundred men, with their officers, in the service of this colony, from the said first day of November to the first day of April thereafter; and to employ them in such offensive or | 300 men for protection of frontiers. |
| defensive operations as he shall think fit to order and direct: And for the subsistence and pay of the said three hundred men, with their officers, from the said first day of November to the said first day of April following, so much money as shall be necessary shall in like manner be paid by the said treasurer, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, out of the publick money that shall come to his hands by virtue of this act; so as the whole sum, so to be paid for the several services above mentioned, do not exceed the sum of twenty thousand pounds. | |
| III. And whereas it will be very troublesome to the governor, or commander in chief, to examine and settle the accounts of the several charges and expences of the said forces, Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That William Prentis, Thomas Everard and James Cocke, gentlemen, shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to examine, state and settle, such accounts relating to the expences of the said forces as shall from time to time be referred to them by the governor, or commander in chief for the time being; and each of the said commissioners shall be allowed, for their trouble therein, the sum of fifty pounds: And for raising the money hereby given and granted, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That a tax of one shilling and three-pence for every hundred acres of land, and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity, shall be paid by the owner or proprietor thereof, on or before the tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven; and the farther tax, or duty of one shilling and three-pence, for every hundred acres of land, and so in proportion for a greater or lesser quantity, shall be paid in like manner, by the owner or proprietor thereof, on or before the tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight to the sheriff of the county wherein such land shall lye; and that a tax, or duty of two shillings, shall be paid for every tithable person in this colony to the sheriff of the county where such person shall be enlisted, by the person enlisting such tithable, on or before the said tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, which said taxes or duties shall be paid, collected and accounted for, in such manner and form, according to such rules, and under such penalties and forfeitures, as are mentioned, prescribed and appointed, for the | Commissioners to settle military accounts. Land-tax. Poll-tax. |
| paying, collecting and accounting for, the tax or duty imposed upon lands and tithables, by one act of assembly made in the thirtieth year of the reign of his present majesty, An Act for granting an aid to his majesty for the better protection of this colony, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and that every article, rule and clause, contained in the said act concerning the paying, collecting and accounting for, the duties thereby imposed, shall be used, exercised and put in practice, for paying, collecting and accounting for, the taxes and duties hereby imposed, as if the like articles, rules and clauses, were inserted in this act. | |
| IV. And whereas the taxes imposed by this act cannot be collected in time to answer the purposes hereby intended, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said treasurer, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, to issue and emit treasury notes to answer the demands that shall be made upon him for the purposes aforesaid, so as the whole sum of such notes so to be issued shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand pounds; which several notes shall be prepared, printed and engraved, in such form, and after such method, as the said treasurer shall judge will be most safe from counterfeits and forgeries: And eighteen hundred of the said notes shall be of the value or denomination of five pounds, and shall be signed by Peyton Randolph, esquire, and Robert Carter Nicholas gentleman: Eighteen hundred of the said notes of the value or denomination of three pounds, and shall be signed by the said Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas; Eighteen hundred of the said notes of the value or denomination of two pounds, and shall be signed by the said Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas; Five thousand three hundred and thirty-three of the said notes of the value or denomination of five shillings, and shall be signed by John Randolph, esquire; and five thousand three hundred and thirty-four of the said notes of the value or denomination of two shillings and six-pence, and shall be signed by the said John Randolph. | Treasury notes. Denomination, and by whom signed. |
| V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That in case of the death or absence of any of them, the said Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas or John Randolph, before all the treasury notes | Vacancies, how supplied. |
| shall be signed, which are hereby required to be signed by such person, in that case it shall and may be lawful for the said treasurer, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, to appoint some other person to sign such notes in the room of him so dead or absent, which signing shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes as if such notes were signed by the persons herein named; and publick notice of such alteration shall be given by the treasurer in the Virginia Gazette, for three weeks after such alteration shall take place. | |
| VI. And be it further enacted, That George Davenport and Peter Pelham, gentlemen, shall, and they are hereby appointed, to overlook the press, during the time of printing the notes to be issued pursuant to this act; who shall use their best care, attention and diligence, that the number and amount of the said notes, according to their respective denominations aforesaid, be not exceeded, nor any fraudulent practice used by the printer, his servants, or any person concerned therein; and shall number and deliver such notes, when printed, to the persons appointed to sign the same respectively, taking his or their receipt for the same, from time to time: And that each of them shall have, for their trouble therein, the sum of twenty pounds, to be paid them by the treasurer for the time being. And the persons so appointed to sign the said notes, shall deliver them, when signed, to the treasurer for the time being appointed as aforesaid, and take his receipt for the same; and every signer shall receive, of the said treasurer, twenty shillings for every thousand of the said notes by them respectively signed, and delivered as aforesaid; and the said treasurer shall be allowed half per centum upon all the said notes by him paid away, as his salary for paying the same. | Superintendents of the press. |
| VII. And be it further enacted, That all notes to be issued in pursuance of this act, shall be redeemable on the tenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, and shall then be paid by the treasurer for the time being; and further, that all such notes shall be received, and pass as a lawful tender, inj payment of any debt, duty or demand, whatsoever (except for the payment of his majesty's quit-rents) from the time of issuing such notes, until the time before specified for the redemption thereof at the treasury as | Notes, when redeemable. Tender. |
| aforesaid: And if any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit, alter or eraze any such treasury notes, or demand a redemption thereof at the treasury, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erazed; or if any person or persons shall, during the time the said notes shall remain current within this colony as aforesaid, offer to sell, or expose to sale, any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, whatsoever, or shall deny or refuse to sell the same, or demand a grater price unless he be paid for the same in gold or silver coin, and not in the said notes, or if any person or persons shall exchange gold or silver coin for the said notes, and demand or take any allowance for the difference of the value thereof, or shall offer to buy, or sell, bills of exchange at a greater or higher difference of exchange for the said treasury notes than for gold or silver coin; or shall use any other device, means or method, whatsoever, whereby the credit of the said notes may be impaired, every person so offending shall suffer and pay the pains, penalties and forfeitures, inflicted for the like offences respectively by the before mentioned act of assembly, intituled, An Act for granting an aid to his majesty, for the better protection of this colony, and for other purposes therein mentioned, to be inflicted, recovered and appropriated, as in the said act is directed. | Penalty for counterfeiting; Or depreciating their value. |
| VIII. And be it further enacted, That the money to be raised by the duties and taxes imposed by this act shall stand, be and remain, as a security for the redemption of the treasury notes so to be issued; and the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, is hereby required to apply all such money as shall come to his hands arising on the duties and taxes aforesaid, for and towards the redemption of the said treasury notes, and to no other use, intent and purpose, whatsoever. | Fund for redemption of notes. |
| IX. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said John Robinson, esquire, treasurer of this colony, shall give such further security as shall be approved by the governor or commander in chief of this colony, in the sum of twenty thousand pounds for the due answering and paying all the money by him received from time to time, and for the due and faithful performance of his said office; and in case of his death, resignation, or disability, the treasurer to | Additional security to be given by treasurer. |
| be appointed in his stead shall in like manner give such security, before he enters into his said office. | |
| X. And whereas it is of the greatest importance to preserve the credit of the paper currency of this colony, and nothing can contribute more to that end than a due care to satisfy the publick that the paper bills of credit, or treasury-notes, are properly sunk, according to the true intent and meaning of the several acts of assembly passed for emitting the same; and the establishing a regular method for this purpose may prevent difficulties and confusion in settling the publick accounts, in case of a loss of the said bills or notes by any unforseen casualty, after they are paid into the treasury, Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That Peyton Randolph, esquire, Robert Carter Nicholas, Benjamin Waller, Lewis Burwell and George Wythe, gentlemen, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed a committee, to examine at least twice in every year (and oftner, if thereto desired by the treasurer for the time being) all such bills of credit or treasury-notes, redeemable on the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and sixty five, as have been or shall be paid into the treasury, in discharge of the duties and taxes imposed by any former act of assembly; and upon the receipt of the said bills or notes, the said committee shall give to the treasurer for the time being a certificate of the amount thereof, which shall avail the said treasurer in the settlements of his accounts as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if he produced the said bills or notes themselves: And the said committee are hereby required and directed, so soon as they have given such certificate, to cause all such bills or notes to be bunt and destroyed. | Treasury notes redeemed to be destroyed. |
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| I. WHEREAS by an act of the general assembly made in the thirtieth year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for establishing a trade with the Indians in alliance with his majesty, the sum of five thousand pounds was directed to be paid by the treasurer out of the publick money in his hands to Peter Randolph, William Randolph, Richard Bland, Archibald Cary and Thomas Walker, esquires, who were constituted and appointed trustees for carrying on and conducting a trade with the said Indians; and whereas the said trustees, in pursuance of the powers given them by the said act, have imported from Great-Britain a considerable cargo of goods, which they are sending out in order to trade with the Cherokee Indians, but by means of the many acts of hostility lately committed by the said Indians against his majesty's subjects, are detained at the town of Salisbury, in the province of South Carolina, where they remain unsold, whereby the publick is likely to sustain great loss: 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 the said trustees shall be, and they are hereby impowered and required to sell and dispose of all the goods so as aforesaid imported by them, together with the horses, pack-saddles, and all and every other article which they may have provided for carrying on the said trade, to any person or persons whatsoever who shall be willing to purchase the same, in such manner, and upon such terms, and at such a reasonable credit, as to the said trustees shall seem most to the advantage and benefit of the publick; and the said trustees, upon receipt of the money arising upon such sale, shall make up, state and settle, an account of their trust, according to the directions of the said | Trustees of Indian Factory of Virginia, directed to sell the goods, imported to trade with the Indians, their hostility preventing the introduction of the goods among them. |
| act, and shall pay the balance remaining in their hands upon such account to the treasurer of this colony, for the use of the publick, any thing in the before recited act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS by one act of assembly, made in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the payment of the Burgesses wages, it is amongst other things enacted, that when any session of assembly should be thereafter held, and upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it should appear that there are monies sufficient in his hands to discharge all the money debts, together with the burgesses wages, and the salaries and allowances to the respective officers of the general assembly, saving and reserving in the hands of the treasurer, over and above the said payment, a balance of one thousand five hundred pounds at the least, then every burgess elected and serving for any county or corporation within this dominion should be paid out to the public money the sum of ten shillings for each day he should serve in the house of burgesses, with such further allowances, and under such restrictions and regulations as in the said act is at large mentioned. | Burgesses wages payable in money. | |
| II. And whereas, upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it appears that there is not money sufficient in his hands to pay the burgesses wages for this present session of assembly, leaving in the hands of the treasurer a balance of one thousand five hundred pounds according to the directions of the said act: Nevertheless, as the payment of the said wages in money, will be a great ease to the poorer sort of people, by lessening the levy by the poll, 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 the burgesses wages for this present session of assembly shall be paid by the treasurer, out of the publick money in his hands, on or before the twenty-fifth day of October next, according the directions and regulations in the said recited act mentioned, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. |
| ANNO REGNI GEORGII II, Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, tricesimo tertio.
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Francis Fauquier, esq. governor. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS a large body of the Cherokee Indians have in an hostile manner invested Fort Loudoun, formerly erected in their country, and at their request; the garrison whereof, unless timely relieved, | Preamble. |
| will inevitably fall a sacrifice to their treacherous and most inhuman barbarities; and it is therefore necessary that part of the regiment, now in the service of this colony, with an addition of new levies, should be immediately dispatched to their aid and assistance: 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for the governour, or commander in chief of this colony, for the time being, and he is hereby impowered and desired, to cause a number of men, not exceeding seven hundred, besides their officers, to be immediately levied and enlisted, for the service aforesaid; and to march them, when raised, or order them to be sent, in conjunction with three hundred men, part of the Virginia regiment, with their officers, by a late act of assembly directed to be stationed on the south-western frontiers of this colony, into the Cherokee county, for the immediate relief of the afore-mentioned garrison; and after that shall be effected, upon such other services, either for annoying the enemy, or defending his majesty's subjects on the frontiers of this colony, as to him shall seem most expedient, Provided, the said forces be not continued in the service of this colony for any longer time than the first day of December next. | Number of men to be raised. |
| II. And for the more speedy raising the said additional forces, Be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the officers appointed for that purpose by the governour, or commander in chief, to enlist so many men as shall be willing to enter into the said service, not exceeding seven hundred; and every person so enlisting shall receive from the officer enlisting him the sum of ten pounds, and every such officer shall be allowed, over and above the reward so to be paid by him, all his necessary expences in the enlisting such persons and conveying them to the place of general rendezvous. | Inlisting money. |
| III. And be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That so much money as shall be necessary for the defraying the charges of raising, paying, victualling, and other expences of the officers and men to be raised by virtue of this act, and for the purchasing and transporting a sufficient quantity of provisions and ammunition for the support of the garrison at Fort | The sum to be raised. |
| Loudoun, for twelve months, shall be paid by John Robinson, esquire, treasurer, or the treasurer of this colony for the time being, appointed by or pursuant to an act of assembly, out of the publick money that shall come to his hands, by virtue of this act, to such person or persons as shall be directed by warrant from the governour, or commander in chief of this colony for the time being, so that the sum so to be raised do not exceed in the whole the sum of thirty-two thousand pounds, to be accounted for to the general assembly. | |
| IV. And whereas it will be very troublesome to the governour, or commander in chief of this colony, to examine and settle the accounts of the several charges and expences of the said forces, Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That William Prentis, Thomas Everard and James Cocke, gentlemen, shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to examine, state and settle, such accounts relating to the expence of the said forces as shall from time to time be referred to them by the governour, or commander in chief for the time being; and each of the said commissioners shall be allowed, for their trouble therein, the sum of fifty pounds: And for raising the money hereby given and granted, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That an additional tax of nine-pence for every hundred acres of land, and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity, shall be paid by the owner or proprietor thereof, on or before the tenth day of April, in each of the years one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven, and one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight; and that the farther additional tax of one shilling and three-pence, for every hundred acres of land, and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity, shall be paid by the owner or proprietor thereof, on or before the tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine; and that an additional tax, or duty of two shillings, shall be paid for every tithable person in this colony to the sheriff of the county where such person shall be enlisted, by the person enlisting the same, on or before the said tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight; and the farther additional tax, or duty of three shillings, for every such tithable person, shall be paid, in like manner, on or before the tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine; which said | Commissioners. Taxes. Land-tax. Poll-tax. |
| additional duties shall be paid, collected and accounted for, in such manner and form, according to such rules, and under such penalties and forfeitures, as are mentioned, prescribed and appointed, for the paying, collecting and accounting for, the taxes or duties imposed upon lands and tithables, by the several acts of assembly of this colony, heretofore made, and now in force, for that purpose; and that every article, rule and clause, in the said acts, concerning the paying, collecting and accounting for, the said former duties, shall be used, exercised and put in practice, for the paying, collecting and accounting for, the said duties hereby imposed, as if the same articles, rules and clauses, were inserted in this act. | |
| V. And whereas, by reason of the great scarcity of gold and silver in this colony, the taxes imposed by this act cannot be collected in time to answer the purposes hereby intended, Be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said treasurer, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, to issue and emit treasury-notes to answer the demands that shall be made upon him for the purposes aforesaid, so as the whole sum of such notes so to be issued shall not exceed the sum of thirty-two thousand pounds; which notes, so to be issued, shall be prepared, printed and engraved, in such form, and after such method, as the said treasurer shall judge most save from counterfeits and forgeries: And seventeen hundred of the said notes shall be of the value or denomination of five pounds, and shall be signed by Peyton Randolph, esquire, and Robert Carter Nicholas gentleman: Seventeen hundred of the said notes of the value and denomination of three pounds, and shall be signed by the said Peyton Randolph and Robert Carter Nicholas; seven thousand of the said notes of the value and denomination of twenty shillings, and shall be signed by the Benjamin Waller and Philip Johnson, gentlemen; seven thousand of the said notes of the value and denomination of ten shillings, and shall be signed by the said Benjamin Waller and Philip Johnson; Seven thousand of the said notes of the value or denomination of five shillings, and shall be signed by John Randolph, esquire; Seven thousand of the said | Treasury notes to be emitted. Signers. |
| notes of the value or denomination of two shillings and six-pence, and shall be signed by the said John Randolph; Sixteen thousand six hundred and sixty-four of the said notes of the value or denomination of one shilling and three-pence, and shall be signed by George Braxton, gentleman; and sixteen thousand six hundred and seventy of the said notes of the value or denomination of one shilling, and shall be signed by the said George Braxton. | |
| VI. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death of any of them, the said Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas, Benjamin Waller, Philip Johnson, John Randolph, or George Braxton, before all the treasury notes shall be signed, which are herein required to be signed by such persons, in that case it shall and may be lawful for the said John Robinson, or the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, to appoint some other person to sign such notes in the room of him so dead or absent, which signing shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes, as if such notes were signed by the persons herein named; and publick notice of such alteration shall be given by the treasurer in the Virginia Gazette, for three weeks after such alteration shall take place. | In case of their death, &c. |
| VII. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That George Davenport, Peter Pelham, and James Hubbard, junior, gentlemen, shall, and they are hereby appointed, to over look the press, during the time of printing the notes to be issued pursuant to this act; who shall use the best of their care, attention and diligence, that the number and amount of the said notes, according to their respective denominations aforesaid, be not exceeded, nor any fraudulent practice used by the printer, his servants, or any person concerned therein; and shall number and deliver such notes, when printed, to the persons appointed to sign the same respectively, taking his or their receipt for the same, from time to time: And that each of them shall have, for their trouble therein, the sum of thirty pounds, to be paid them by the treasurer for the time being. And the persons so appointed to sign the said notes, shall deliver them, when signed, to the treasurer for the time being appointed as aforesaid, and take his receipt for the same; and each signer shall receive, of the said treasurer, twenty shillings for every thousand of the said notes by them respectively | Overlooking of the press. |
| signed, and delivered as aforesaid; and the said treasurer shall be allowed half per centum upon all the said notes by him paid away, as his salary for paying the same. | |
| VIII. And be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That all notes to be issued in pursuance of this act, shall be redeemable on the twentieth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine, and shall then be paid by the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid; and farther, that all such notes shall be received, and pass as a lawful tender, in payment of any debt, duty or demand, whatsoever (except for the payment of his majesty's quit-rents) from the time of issuing such notes, until the time before limited for the redemption thereof at the treasury as aforesaid. | Treasury notes made current. |
| IX. And be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit, alter or eraze any such treasury notes, or shall tender in payment by the way of barter or otherwise, to any person whatsoever, or shall demand a redemption thereof at the treasury, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erazed; or if any person or persons shall, during the time the said notes shall remain current within this colony as aforesaid, to offer to sell, or expose to sale, any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, whatsoever, and shall deny or refuse to sell the same, or demand a greater price unless he be paid for the same in gold or silver coin, and not in the said notes; or if any person or persons shall exchange gold or silver coin for the said notes, and demand or take any allowance for the difference of the value thereof, or shall offer to buy, or sell, bills of exchange at a greater or higher difference of exchange for the said treasury notes than for gold or silver coin; or shall use any other device, means or method, whatsoever, whereby the credit of the said notes may be impaired, every person so offending shall suffer and pay the pains, penalties and forfeitures, inflicted for the like offences respectively by an act of assembly made in the thirtieth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for granting an aid to his majesty, for the better protection of this colony, and for other purposes therein mentioned, to be inflicted, recovered and appropriated, as in the said act is directed. | Forging them, &c. |
| X. And be it farther enacted, That the money to be raised by the duties and taxes imposed by this act shall stand, be and remain, as a security for the redemption of the treasury notes so to be issued; and the treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, is hereby required to apply all such money as shall come to his hands by virtue of this act, for and towards the redemption of the said treasury notes, and to no other use, intent or purpose, whatsoever. | Security for their redemption. |
| XI. And whereas, by an act of the general assembly made in the twenty-eight year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for raising the sum of twenty thousand pounds for the protection of his majesty's subjects, against the insults and incroachments of the French, and for other purposes therein mentioned, an additional duty of ten per centum was imposed upon all slaves imported or brought into this colony and dominion for sale, either by land or water, from any part or place whatsoever, to be paid by the buyer or purchaser, on the amount of each respective purchase, over and above the several duties laid on slaves imported as aforesaid, by any act or acts of assembly then subsisting; which said additional duty of ten per centum hath been found very burthensome to the fair purchaser, a great disadvantage to the settlement and improvement of the lands in this colony, introductive of many frauds, and not to answer the end thereby intended, inasmuch as the same prevents the importation of slaves, and thereby lessens the fund arising from the duties upon slaves. | Duty on slaves taken off. |
| XII. Be it therefore farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the said in part recited act of assembly, and every article and clause thereof as relates to the imposing, collecting and paying, the said additional duty on slaves, be, and the same are hereby repealed and made void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. | Repealing clause. |
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| I. WHEREAS an act of assembly was made in the thirtieth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for preventing mutiny and desertion, which was continued by another act made in the following year, intituled, An Act for continuing and amending an act, intituled, An Act for preventing mutiny and desertions, with an additional clause in the said last mentioned act contained, both of which were farther continued by another act made in the thirty-second year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for farther continuing an act, intituled An act for preventing mutiny and desertion, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and expired on the fourteenth day of April last; and it is necessary, for preventing mutiny and desertion, and for maintaining an exact discipline amongst the forces in the service of this colony, that as well the said act first above-mentioned, as the additional clause in the next following act mentioned, should be revived and farther continued: 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 the said act of assembly made in the thirtieth year of his majesty reign, intituled, An Act for preventing mutiny and desertion, together with the said additional clause contained in the said act, made in the following year, shall be, and they are hereby revived and declared to be in full force, and shall continue and be in force from and after the passing of this act, for and during the term of one year, and no longer. | Acts to prevent mutiny and desertion revised, and continued. | |
| II. And whereas the officers of the said forces have, for retaining them in their duty, and for preventing mutiny, sedition and desertion, still exercised the same |
| power and authority over them with which they were invested by the several acts above mentioned, since the expiration of the said acts, by which means they have made themselves liable to the action at law of such of the soldiers under their command as may have suffered martial discipline since that time; therefore, for preventing such disputes, and for protecting the said officers from such actions, Be it farther enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That in all actions or suits which already have ben, or may hereafter be commenced or prosecuted against the said officers, for or concerning any martial punishment inflicted pursuant to the said act, on the person prosecuting such action or suit, after the expiration of the aforesaid acts of assembly, shall be to all intents and purposes void, and shall be dismissed at the costs of the prosecutor; and farther that it shall be sufficient for the defendant, in any such action or suit, to plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence. | |
| CHAP. III. An Act for paying the Burgesses wages, for this present session of assembly. | |
| I. WHEREAS by an act of assembly, made in the fourth year of the reign of her late majesty queen Anne, intituled, An Act for regulating the elections of burgesses, for settling their privileges, and ascertaining their allowance, it is amongst other things enacted, that the allowance for burgesses attending the general assembly should be as followeth; that is to say, for every burgess coming by land one hundred and thirty pounds of tobacco and cask a day, besides the necessary charge of ferriage; and for every burgess who could not come to the general assembly otherwise than by water, one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco and cask a day, to be paid them by the county for which they serve respectively, besides an | Burgesses wages regulated. |
| allowance for divers days of travelling to and from the general assembly, as in the said act is particularly mentioned: And whereas by one other act of assembly made in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the payment of the Burgesses wages, it is amongst other things enacted, that when any session of assembly should be thereafter held, and upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it should appear that there are monies sufficient in his hands to discharge all the debts due from the publick, together with the burgesses wages, and the salaries and allowances to the respective officers of the general assembly, saving and reserving in the hands of the treasurer, over and above the said payments, a balance of one thousand five hundred pounds at the least, then every burgess elected and serving for any county or corporation should be paid out to the publick money the sum of ten shillings for each day he should serve in the house of burgesses, and for the days of coming to and returning from the general assembly according to the first recited act, in lieu of all other demands for that service, with a farther allowance to the burgesses for the counties of Accomack and Northampton, and others, coming to the general assembly by water, as in the said act is particularly directed. | |
| II. And whereas, by reason of the low circumstances of the treasury, the wages of the burgesses for this present session cannot be discharged in money, according to the last mentioned act, and the same must be paid by the several counties; but forasmuch as the allowances, according to the first mentioned act, are very unequal, by reason of the various prices of tobacco in the different parts of this colony: For making the same more equal and just, 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 the several county courts within this colony, except the counties of Augusta, Frederick and Hampshire, shall, at the laying of their next county levy, raise and levy so much tobacco as will be sufficient to pay the wages of their respective burgesses for this present session of assembly, according to the directions and regulations in the said last recited act mentioned, and shall cause the tobacco so |
| levied to be sold, and such wages paid out of the money arising by such sale, on or before the first day of May next; and that the several county courts of Augusta, Frederick and Hampshire, shall also, at the times aforesaid, levy and pay in money the wages of their respective burgesses for this present session of assembly. | |
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