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| CHAP. VIII. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS by an act of Assembly, made in the first year of the reign of his present majesty, entitled, An Act to empower the common hall of the city of Williamsburg to assess such taxes from time to time on the inhabitants thereof as shall be sufficient to answer all charges and expenses for publick buildings, keeping the streets in repair, and other conveniences, the said common hall are empowered to levy money of the inhabitants of the said city not only for the particular purposes in the said act specified, but also at all times, and for defraying the charges and expenses of any publick buildings, or other conveniencies, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the said city, whenever they shall think proper; which discretionary power, without some restrictions, may prove of dangerous consequence to the liberties and properties of the said citizens; nevertheless it may prove of great service, and very much conduce to the preservation of the said city, if the said common hall are empowered, when their chamber is deficient, to levy money of the said inhabitants for the several purposes herein after particularized: | Corporation of Williamsburg authorised to assess taxes on the inhabitants. | |
| II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour, 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 for the mayor, recorder aldermen, and common-council, of the said city of Williamsburg, for the time being, in common-hall assembled, to levy and assess by the poll, on the tithable persons inhabiting within the said city, all such sum and sums of money as shall be sufficient for defraying the charges and expenses of building a court-house, market-house, and prison, for the said city, when those now in use shall happen to fall to decay, or be otherwise destroyed and to keep the same in repair; also for building, |
| purchasing, or renting, one or more house or houses, to be made use of as hospitals, for the reception of any person or persons who may be hereafter found within the said city infected with contagious distempers and for paying the charges of removing such persons to the hospital, and providing doctors, nurses and other necessary attendants, as also guards, to prevent the spreading of such distempers; also to defray the expense of purchasing necessary attendants, as also guards, to prevent the spreading of such distempers; also to defray the expense of purchasing necessary fire engines, and the hire of proper persons as firemen to keep such engines at all times in good order and ready for service; and for sinking such so many wells as they shall think sufficient for supplying the fire engines with water in case of fires, fixing pumps in such wells, and keeping them in constant repair; also to defray the charges of appointing watchmen for the said city, and paying them reasonable wages; and also for repairing, and keeping in good order, the streets and lands in the said city. And that the said common-hall shall not levy or assess taxes on the inhabitants of the said city for any other use, intent, or purpose, whatsoever. | |
| III. And for the more equal and impartial assessment of such taxes, It is hereby further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council, in common hall assembled, shall and may, as often as occasion shall require, order and direct the inhabitants of the said city to deliver in lists of their tithables to the clerk of the court of Hustings of the said city, within such time as they shall appoint, but not less than one month at the least, who shall forthwith cause a copy of such order to be fixed up at the doors of the church, court-house, and market house, of the said city; and if any inhabitant of the said city shall neglect or refuse so to do, within the time so to be limited, such delinquent shall be deemed a concealer of tithables, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty shillings for every tithable so concealed, which shall be levied by the collector of the taxes, and in case of non-payment by distress and sale of the delinquent's goods and chattels, as in cases of other distresses, and applied towards the purposes of this act. And the said clerk shall make out a fair copy of all such lists of tithables, and deliver the same, when required, to the said court of Hustings. | |
| IV. And be it further enacted, That the said common hall, when they shall have settled and proportioned |
| the taxes to be levied in pursuance of this act on the inhabitants of the said city, according to such lists of tithables, they shall and may appoint one or more collector or collectors of the same; and if any person or persons shall refuse or neglect to satisfy and pay the money so on him, her, or them, levied and assessed, at the times appointed for the payment thereof, it shall and may be lawful for such collector or collectors to levy the money so due by distress and sale of the delinquent's goods, in the manner herein before mentioned. And such collector or collectors shall give bond, with sufficient securities, in a reasonable penalty, payable to the mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council, of the said city, and their successours, for the due collection and payment of the said taxes; and shall be allowed a commission of five per centum for collecting and paying the same. | ||
| V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said recited act of Assembly shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, and made void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. | ||
| VI. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained. | ||
 CHAP. IX. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it hath been represented to this present General Assembly that the court days of the counties of Lancaster, Gloucester, Chesterfield, and Warwick, are inconvenient to the justices, and others who are obliged to attend the said courts: | Court days of Lancaster, Gloucester and Warwick altered. | |
| II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the last day of March next the court for the said county of Lancaster shall be constantly held upon the third Monday in every month, |
| and the court for the county of Gloucester shall be constantly held upon the first Thursday in every month, and the court for the said county of Chesterfield shall be constantly held upon the first Friday in every month, and the court for the said county of Warwick shall be constantly held upon the second Thursday in every month; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary, in any wise, notwithstanding. | ||
| CHAP. X. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present General Assembly that the glebe of the parish of Bath, in the county of Dinwiddie, is inconveniently situated, and that it would be very advantageous to the minister of the said parish, as also to the inhabitants thereof in general, if the vestry of the said parish were impowered to dispose of the said glebe, and lay out the money arising from the sale thereof in purchasing other lands for a glebe, and erecting convenient buildings thereon: | Vestry of Bath parish in Dinwiddie authorised to sell their glebe. | |
| II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said glebe land, with the appurtenances, be, and the same are hereby vested in the present vestry of the said parish of Bath, and in the vestry of the said parish for the time being, In trust. | ||
| II. Nevertheless, That the said vestry, or the greater part of them, shall by deed of bargain and sale sell and convey the said glebe, with the appurtenances, for the best price that can be got for the same, to any person or persons who shall be willing to purchase the same; to hold to such purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs and assigns, for ever. | ||
| IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the money arising by the sale of the said |
| glebe shall be by the said vestry laid out and applied for and towards purchasing a more convenient tract or parcel of land for a glebe, and erecting buildings thereon, for the use and benefit of the minister of the said parish of Bath for the time being, for ever. | ||
| CHAP. XI. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS Robert Carter, esquire, late of the county of Lancaster, now deceased, was in his lifetime, and at the time of his death, seized in fee-simple, amongst other estates, of and in three hundred and ten acres of land, commonly called and known by the name of Norman's Ford, now situate, lying, and being, in the parish of St. Mark, in the county of Culpeper, which was at the time of his death part of the county of Spotsylvania; and being so thereof seized did make his last will and testament in writing, bearing date the twenty second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six, and thereby devised the same to his son Charles Carter, and to the heirs male issue of his body lawfully begotten, included within the devise in the said will contained to his said son Charles of all his lands in King George and Spotsylvania counties, lying above the falls of Rappahannock river, as by the said last will and testament of the said Robert Carter, now remaining amongst the records of the general court of this colony, may appear; and some time afterwards the said Robert Carter departing this life, seized as aforesaid, his said son Charles entered into the said three hundred and ten acres of land, and became, and is now seized thereof, as tenant in taille-male, under the will of his said father. | Entail of certain lands whereof Charles Carter, esq. is seized, docked. | |
| II. And whereas the said Charles Carter, esquire, is, and stands seized, in fee-simple, of and in a certain |
| tract or parcel of land, with the appurtenances, containing eleven hundred acres, situate, lying, and being, above the falls of Rappahannock river, in the parish of Brunswick, in the county of King George, which was granted to him by patent from the lord proprietor of the Northern Neck, and it will be for the benefit and advantage of the heir in taille, and those claiming in remainder and reversion under the will of the said Robert Carter, to dock the entail of the said three hundred and ten acres of land called Norman's Ford, in the said county of Culpeper, and to settle the said eleven hundred acres of land in the said county of King George, being of much greater value, to the same uses. | |
| III. And forasmuch as notice hath been published three Sundays successively, in the several churches of the said parish of St. Mark, that application would be made to this General Assembly to dock the entail to the said three hundred and ten acres of land, and to settle other lands of greater value to the same uses, pursuant to your majesty's instructions. | |
| IV. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said Charles Carter, that it may be enacted And be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Burgesses of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said tract or parcel of land, with the appurtenances, containing three hundred and ten acres, called and known by the name of Norman's Ford, situate, lying, and being, in the said parish of St. Mark, and county of Culpeper, so as aforesaid devised by the last will and testament of the said Robert Carter to his said son Charles in taille-male, be, and the same is hereby vested in the said Charles Carter, his heirs and assigns, for ever; and that the said eleven hundred acres of land, lying and being in the said parish of Brunswick and county of King George, so as aforesaid granted to the said Charles Carter by the lord proprietor of the Northern Neck, be, and the same are hereby vested in the said Charles Carter, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and on failure of such heirs the same shall remain and descend to such person and persons, in the same manner, and under the same limitations and remainders, successively, as the said three hundred and ten acres of land called Norman's |
| Ford would have remained and descended, by virtue of the last will and testament of the said Robert Carter, if this act had never been made. | ||
| V. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successors, and to all and every other person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and successors, other than the person and persons claiming under the last will and testament of the said Robert Carter, all such right, title, interest, claim, and demand, as they, every, or any of them could or might claim, if this act had never been made. | ||
| VI. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained. | ||
| CHAP. XII. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS major-general Alexander Spotswood was at the time of his death seized and possessed of a large tract of land, lying in the county of Spotsylvania, wherein he had erected works for casting pig-iron, and employed therein the greatest part of his slaves, and was also seized of a large tract of land, in the counties of Orange and Culpeper, on which he had placed some tenants at an annual rent, and of a tract of about three thousand acres, in the said county of Spotsylvania, called Massaponax, which was situate a considerable distance from the said mine tract, and being so seized made his last will and testament in writing, bearing date the nineteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and forty, and therein did give and devise to his eldest son John Spotswood, esquire, all his said lands, and his working slaves, in taille, with several remainders over in case is said son should die without issue, but | Sale of certain entailed lands whereof John Spotswood, esq. is seized in Spotsylvania Orange and Culpeper, directed, for payment of debts due from him, and the estate of major-general Alexander Spotswood. |
| empowered his executors to lease out any of his said lands (his said Mine tract excepted) for years, or for life or lives, on such condition, with such covenants, and reservations of rents, for the benefit of his said son, as he the said testator had theretofore leased any of his said lands; and the said testator did further give and devise unto his said son Robert Spotswood the sum of three thousand pounds sterling, payable at his attaining the age of twenty-one years, and to his two daughters Anna Catharina and Dorothea the sum of two thousand pounds sterling each, payable at their respective ages of twenty-one years, or marriage, which said sum of seven thousand pounds was to be raised by mortgage or sale of any of his the testator's lands devised to his said son John (his mine tract excepted) and that so much as should seem proper to his wife for the maintenance and education of his said three younger children, until their fortunes should become payable respectively, should be annually paid out of the growing rents and profits of his said lands; and the said testator did further direct that all the tradesmen and servants, stocks of cattle, horses and hogs, all waggons, carts and carriages, implements of husbandry and handicraft, and all household furniture, which should be employed, or any way used, in and on the said mine tract, at the time of his death, should continue thereon, and be employed therein, until his said son John attained to the age of twenty-one years, when he gave the same to his said son John, requesting his said son, in case he should attain to that age, and die without issue male, that he would give the said servants, stocks, and goods, to his aforesaid son Robert, so that the said iron works might be carried on and improved according to his the testator's intention; and, after some other small legacies, did give the rest of his estate, which was inconsiderable, to be equally divided between his said wife and children, and appointed his said wife, and Elliot Benger, Gentleman, and Robert Rose, clerk, executors of his said will, during the minority of his said son John, as by the said will remaining of record in the said county court of Orange, may more fully appear. | |
| II. And whereas in the acquisition of the lands aforesaid, and the setting up the said iron works, the said major-general Spotswood became, and was at the time of his death, very largely indebted to sundry persons in Great Britain, and this colony, and had moreover, |
| on his marriage with his said wife, settled on her an annuity of five hundred pounds sterling for life for her jointure, in case she should survive him, so that the profits of the estate devised to the son John Spotswood were so far from paying his father's debts, and raising the younger childrens fortunes during his minority, that when he arrived to the age of twenty-one years, and the accounts of the executors were settled, by order of the general court, such profits fell about three thousand pounds short of paying the said annuity, the maintenance of the children, and the necessary expenses of the estate, which sum the said John Spotswood was by decree of the said court obliged to pay, besides being liable for the said debts and fortunes, which were greatly increased by the growing interest thereof. | |
| III. And whereas the said daughters Anna Catharina and Dorothea, having respectively married, became entitled to their fortunes, and the said John Spotswood, not being able to borrow money on the security of his lands to discharge the same, used his utmost endeavours to sell as much of the said Orange and Culpeper lands as would raise the said fortunes and the interest thereof, and frequently advertised publick sales thereof, at which he sold nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine acres to different persons, for about four thousand pounds in the whole, which sum being greatly short of the amount of the said daughters fortunes, and several decrees and judgments having passed against the said John Spotswood, as well for the balance thereof as for his father's debts, which he had no present means of discharging, he was therefore obliged to draw several bills of exchange on merchants in Great Britain, no way indebted to him, thereby to gain time, and devise some means of raising the money so recovered of him, which bills were returned protested, and now remain unsatisfied, besides which several creditors of the said major-general Spotswood having obtained judgments for their debts, to ascertain the same, forbore to sue out executions thereupon, and are yet unpaid such debts. | |
| IV. And whereas the said Robert Spotswood the son, having attained his age of twenty-one years, became entitled to his fortune, and by deed made and executed between the said John Spotswood and Robert Spotswood, it was agreed that the said Robert should hold all the said Orange and Culpeper lands until the rents |
| and profits thereof should fully satisfy and pay the said fortune of three thousand pounds, and the interest thereof. | |
| V. And whereas it appears to have been the will and intention of major-general Spotswood that his debts and younger childrens fortunes should be chargeable on his other estate, and not on his mine tract of land or iron works, the profits of which he intended for his eldest son, to enable him to maintain his family, and make provision for any younger sons he might have, out of such profits; and the rather as the said general Spotswood does not in his said will take any notice of such younger sons, although he empowers the said John to charge the entailed estate with a fortune of one thousand pounds for each daughter he should have, notwithstanding which all the profits of the said iron works, from the time of the death of the said John Spotswood, were applied towards the payment of the said debts and fortunes, and the maintenance of the children, except what was necessary for the support of the said John Spotswood's family, and what he laid out in the purchase of about nine thousand acres of the land so sold by him, and which cost one thousand pounds current money, and about fifty slaves, in order to make provision for his younger son. | |
| IV. And whereas the said John Spotswood died some time in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight, leaving Mary his widow, and four children, Alexander his eldest son and heir, John, Anne, and Mary, his younger children, having first made his last will and testament in writing, and therein, according to the power given him by his father's will charged the entailed estate with the sum of one thousand pounds sterling for each of his said daughters, and gave to his said daughter Anne a mulatto girl slave called Betty, and to his daughter Mary a negro girl slave named Phillis, and all the rest of his estate he gave to his said younger son John Spotswood in fee-simple, and of his said will appointed John Robinson, esquire, Bernard Moore, John Champe, Edmund Pendleton, and Roger Dixon, gentlemen, and Nicholas Seward, executors, as by the said will, remaining of record in the said county court of Spotsylvania, may more fully appear; and after the death of the said John Spotswood, the said Bernard Moore alone undertook the execution of the said will |
| the other executors having hitherto declined to act therein, and the said Bernard Moore was moreover by the general court appointed guardian to the said sons Alexander and John Spotswood, who are under the age of fourteen years. | |
| VII. And whereas the said John Spotswood deceased, by having drawn the said bills of exchange, had so far made the said debts his own that actions at law might be commenced against his executors, and by that means the whole estate devised by him to his said younger son would in the first instance be swept away, and though the said younger son might in a court of equity be relieved out of the entailed estate (except the mine tract and iron works) as to so much of the said debts as were properly chargeable thereon, yet such relief would be tedious and expensive, and involve the family in dissentions and lawsuits, and at the same time be prejudicial to the heir in taille, it being very probable that the reversion of the said Orange and Culpeper lands, after satisfying the arrears of fortune due to the said Robert Spotswood, could not be sold for the full value thereof, and it being deemed for the benefit of the said heir and younger son, as well as the creditors, that the said Bernard Moore should be allowed to apply the profits of the iron works (which were very considerable) with the rents and profits of the other estate, for and towards discharging the said debts, whereby the said tenanted lands might be exonerated, and saved for the heir, and the smaller estate devised to his younger son, preserved for him, which was the more just and reasonable as there were not sufficient of the entailed slaves to carry on the said iron works, bu tit was necessary that some of the slaves of the younger son should be employed therein, wherefore in and by an act of Assembly made in the first year of your majesty's reign, entitled, An Act to enable the executors of the will of John Spotswood, esquire, deceased, to pay the debts and legacies due from the estate of major-general Alexander Spotswood, and for other purposes therein mentioned, the said Bernard Moore, or the acting executor or executors of the will to the said John Spotswood, deceased, or the guardian for the time being of the said sons Alexander and John, were empowered and required to apply the profits of the whole estate, as well the iron works, and the tenanted entailed estate, after the said Robert Spotswood's demand was |
| satisfied, as the other fee-simple estate of the said John Spotswood, in the first place for and towards the necessary maintenance and education of the children of the said John Spotswood, and the residue in discharge and satisfaction of the debts due from him and the estate of his said father, and as soon as such debts should be satisfied and paid then the profits of the whole entailed estate should be applied to the benefit to the heir in the same manner as if the said act had never been made, and from thenceforth the said younger son John Spotswood should be applied to the benefit of the heir in the same manner as if the said act had never been made, and from thenceforth the said younger son John Spotswood should be seized of the said nine thousand and forty-eight acres of land so devised to him by the will of his said father, to him and his heirs for ever, and should also be entitled to the other lands and slaves, and personal estate, devised to him by the said will, in manner, and on the terms therein mentioned, as by the said act may among other things more fully appear. | |
| VIII. And whereas, pursuant to the directions of the said act of assembly, the said Bernard More hath applied the profits of the whole estate, after maintaining and educating the children, towards the payment of the debts, whereby considerable sums have been discharged, but there still remains due of the said debts about nine thousand pounds, which with the growing interest thereof cannot be discharged by such profits in many years, and most of the creditors refusing to wait for such slow payment have threatened to levy executions for their debts, whereby all the slaves devised to the said younger son will be taken away, the carrying on the iron works impeded, and the salutary purposes of the said act wholly defeated, and it hat been represented to this assembly that it will be for the benefit of the heir and younger son, as well as the creditors, to sell part of the entailed lands, and satisfy some of the most pressing creditors, and thereby reduce the debts to a sum which might be paid by the said Bernard Moore in a reasonable time, in the method directed by the said recited act. | |
| IX. And whereas notice hath been published three Sundays successively in the several churches of the parishes of St. Mark, St. Thomas, and St. George, in the said counties of Culpeper, Orange, and Spotsylvania, that application would be made to this present General Assembly for an act to empower the said Bernard Moore to sell some of the said entailed lands for the purposes aforesaid, pursuant to your majesty's instructions. |
| X. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said Bernard Moore, that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Bernard Moore, or the acting executor or executors of the will of the said John Spotswood, or the guardian of the said son Alexander Spotswood for the time being, shall be, and he or they is and are hereby empowered, with the consent and approbation of John Robinson, esquire, Edmund Pendleton, Roger Dixon, and John Campbell, gentlemen, or any two of them, to sell and dispose of such and so much of the said entailed lands (the mine tract excepted) as he or they shall judge most convenient and necessary (so as that the whole sum of money to be raised by such sale does not amount to more then six thousand pounds) for the best price that may be got for the same, and convey such lands so sold to the purchaser or purchasers, who shall from thenceforth hold the same respectively, to them, and their heirs, for ever; and the said Bernard Moore, or such executor or executors, or guardians, shall apply the money arising from such sales towards the payment of the debts due from the said John Spotswood, or the said major-general Spotswood, rendering due accounts of such sales and payments; and the said Bernard Moore, or such executor or executors, or guardian, shall apply the profits of the remaining estate, of which the said John Spotswood died possessed, to the payment of the residue of the said debts, and the maintenance of the children, and such other uses as in and by the said recited act is directed. | |
| XI. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successours, and to all and every other person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and successours, other than the persons claiming under the will of the said major-general Alexander Spotswood, all such estate, right, title, interest, claim, or demand, as they, every, or any of them should or might claim, if this act had never been made. | |
| XII. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained. |
| CHAP. XIII. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS William Cary, formerly of the county of Warwick, was in his lifetime, and at the time of his death, seized in fee-simple of and in a tract of high land and marsh lying at the mouth of Skiff creek, in the said county, containing about three hundred and sixty acres, and being so seized made his will and testament in writing, bearing date the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and therein, amongst other things, did give and devise the said tract of land, after the decease of his wife Martha, unto his son Harwood Cary, and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, with several remainders over in case of failure of issue of the said Harwood Cary, as in and by the said will make more fully appear; and after the death of the said testator, and his said wife Martha, the said Harwood the son entered in to the said tract of land, and died seized thereof, leaving issue William Cary his eldest son and heir, who entered in to the said land, and is now seized thereof as tenant in fee-taille, but the said William Cary having no slaves to work the said land the same is of little profit to him, and it hath been represented to this assembly that it will be for the benefit of the said William Cary, and his issue, to sell the said entailed lands, and lay out the money in the purchase of other lands and slaves, to be settled to the same uses, the said William Cary having contracted for the sale of the said entailed lands to one Allen Jones for seven hundred and twenty pounds current money, the full value of the same. | Certain entailed lands whereof William Cary is seized, vested in Allen Jones. | |
| II. And forasmuch as notice hath been published three Sundays successively in the several churches of the parish of Warwick, in the said county of Warwick, that application would be made to this present General Assembly for an act to dock the entail of the said lands, and for settling other lands and slaves, to be purchased with the money aforesaid, to the same uses, pursuant to your majesty's instructions. |
| III. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said William Cary, that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said tract of three hundred and sixty acres of high land and marsh, be the same more or less, whereof the said William Cary is seized in the county of Warwick, be, and the same is hereby vested in the said Allen Jones, his heirs and assigns, for ever, to his and their own use. | |
| IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the said Allen Jones shall pay the said sum of seven hundred and twenty pounds to Archibald Cary, John Fleming, Robert Bolling, junior, and Joseph Cabball, gentlemen, In trust; that they, or the greater part of them, or their survivers, shall fairly lay out the said money in the purchase of other lands and slave, to be conveyed by deed or deeds duly proved and recorded, and from thenceforth the said lands and slaves so purchased shall descend, pass, and go together, to the said William Cary and the heirs of his body, and to such other person or persons as the said lands in the county of Warwick would have remained, gone, and descended, by virtue of the limitations in the will of the said William Cary the elder, if this act had never been made. | |
| V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the estate taille in the said lands and slaves so to be purchased shall not be docked or defeated by writ in the nature of an ad quod damnum, or otherwise than by act of assembly. | |
| VI. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successours, and to all and every other person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and successours, other than the persons claiming under the will of the said William Cary the elder, all such estate, right, title, and interest, as they, every, or any of them should or might have or claim if this act had never been made. | |
| VII. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained. | |
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