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| ANNO REGNI GEORGII III. Regis Magnæ, Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, Septimo. 
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Francis Fauquier, esq. governor. | |||
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| I. WHEREAS the act of Assembly made in the thirtieth year of the reign of his late majesty king George the second, intituled, An Act for reducing the several acts of Assembly for making provision against invasions and insurrections into one act, and which was continued by another act made in the third year of his present majesty's reign, will expire on the eighth day of June next; and it is necessary and expedient that the said act should be further 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 making provision against invasions and insurrections further continued. |
| act of Assembly made in the thirtieth year of his said late majesty's reign, shall continue and be in force, from and after the said eighth day of June next, for and during the term of three years, and no longer. | ||
| CHAP. II. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS the act of Assembly made in the thirty-second year of the reign of his late majesty, An Act for reducing the several acts for laying a duty upon liquors, into one act, which was continued by two other acts of Assembly made in the first and fifth years of the reign of his present majesty, will expire on the twentieth day of June next; and it is necessary that the same should be further 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 first mentioned act of Assembly shall continue and be in force, from and after the said twentieth day of June, for and during the term of three years from thence next following, and no longer. | Act laying duties on liquors further continued. | |
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| I. WHEREAS by an act of Assembly, made the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his late majesty, king George | Act reviving duties upon |
| the second, intituled, An Act for reviving the duty upon slaves, to be paid by the buyers, for the term therein mentioned, which was continued by two other acts of Assembly made in the twenty-seventh, and thirty-second years of the reign of his said majesty, will expire on the twentieth day of April next, and it being found expedient that the said first recited act should be further continued for the purposes therein mentioned: 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 first mentioned act of Assembly, and every clause and article thereof, shall be and continue in force from and after the twentieth day of April next, for and during the term of three years, from thence next following, and no longer. | slaves further continued. | |
| II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said duties shall be collected and paid, according to the directions of the said first mentioned act, to Robert Carter Nicholas, esquire, treasurer, or the treasurer of this colony for the time being, appointed by or pursuant to an act of Assembly; any thing in the said recited acts to the contrary notwithstanding. | ||
| CHAP. IV. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS an act of Assembly, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his late majesty, king George the second, intituled, An Act to oblige persons bringing slaves into this colony from Maryland, Carolina, and the West-Indies, for their own use, to pay a duty for the term therein mentioned; will expire the twentieth day of April next; and it being found expedient, | Act imposing duties on slaves brought from Maryland, Carolina, and the West-Indies, by persons, for |
| that the said act should be continued for the purposes therein mentioned: 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, and every clause and article thereof, shall be and continue in force, from and after the twentieth day of April next, for and during the term of three years, from thence next following, and no longer. | their own use, further continued. | |
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| I. WHEREAS the act of assembly made in the third year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the more effectual keeping the public roads and bridges in repair, will expire at the end of this present session of assembly; and it being necessary that the same should be amended and further 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 if any overseer shall fail to send the hands under his care when thereto required, according to the directions of the said act, such overseer shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings for every such failure, to be recovered in the same manner as in the said act is directed. | Act for the more effectual keeping the public roads and bridges
in repair, further continued. Penalty on overseer failing to send hands. | |
| II. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said recited act, and every clause and article thereof, shall continue and be in force from the end of this present session of assembly, for and during the term of five years, and no longer. |
| CHAP. VI. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present General Assembly, that public ferries at the places hereafter mentioned, will be of great service to travellers and others: 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 public ferries be constantly kept at the following places, and that the rates for passing the same shall be as follow, to wit: From the land of John Dix, on the north side of Dan river, in Halifax county, across the said river to the land of Lewis Green, opposite thereto, the price for a man three-pence, and for a horse the same; from the land of Joseph Cabell, on the south side of Fluvannah river, in Buckingham county, across the said river to the land of William Cabell, opposite thereto, the price for a man three-pence, and for a horse the same; from the land of Elizabeth Cook, in Stafford county, below the mouth of Chapawamsick creek, across the river Potowmack, to the land of Clement Kennedy, in Maryland, the price for a man two shillings, and for a horse the same; and for the transportation of wheel-carriages, tobacco, cattle, and other beasts, at any of the places aforesaid, the ferry-keepers may demand and take the following rates, to wit, for every coach, chariot, or waggon, and the driver thereof, the same as for six horses; for every cart or four wheeled chaise, and the driver thereof, the same as for four horses; for every two wheeled chaise, or chair, the same as for two horses; for every hogshead of tobacco, as for one horse; for every head of neat cattle, as for one horse; for every sheep, goat, hog, or lamb, one fourth part of the ferriage of one horse, according to the prices herein before settled at such ferries respectively, and no more. And if an of the said ferry-keepers shall presume to demand or receive from any person or persons whatsoever any greater rate than is hereby allowed for the carriage or ferriage of any thing whatsoever, he, she, or they, for every such offence, shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved, the ferriage | New ferries established. |
| demanded or received, and ten shillings; to be recovered with costs before any justice of the peace where the offence shall be committed. And where a ferry is by this act appointed on one side of a river, and none on the other side answerable thereto, it shall be lawful for the respective county courts to appoint an opposite ferry, and to allow the respective rates herein before directed; and the courts of the counties wherein the said ferries are established, shall and may, and are hereby required to order and direct what boat or boats, and what number of hands shall be kept at such ferry respectively; and every such ferry-keeper shall enter into bond in the manner directed by one act of assembly, made in the twenty-second year of his late majesty's reign, intituled An act for the settlement and regulation of ferries, and for dispatch of public expresses, and shall be liable to the penalties thereby inflicted for any neglect or omission of their duty. And whereas by an act of assembly passed in the third year of his present majesty's reign, intituled An act for establishing several new ferries, and for other purposes therein mentioned: It was enacted that a ferry should be constantly kept and established from the land of Archibald Ritchie, adjoining the town of Tappahannock, across the river to a causey erected and raised through the marsh and low grounds, on and adjoining to the lands of Moore Fantleyroy, in the county of Richmond; and the property thereof should be, and the same was thereby vested in the said Archibald Ritchie, his heirs or assigns, may demand and take for ferriage across the said river, one shilling and three-pence for a man, and for a horse the same rate, and so in proportion of such ferriage for the transportation of carriages, cattle, and other things. but, forasmuch, as doubts have arisen in construction of the conditions, whereon by the aforerecited act, the said ferry was vested in the said Archibald Ritchie, his heirs or assigns, and it hath moreover been represented to this general assembly, that the rates of ferriage by the said recited act appointed, are too great: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the said Archibald Ritchie, his heirs or assigns, shall at all times hereafter, at his or their own proper charge and expence, |
| keep up and maintain in repair a good and sufficient road and causeys from the public road to the said county of Richmond, which leads to the said ferry, to be carried through the low grounds to the marsh adjoining the said ferry, and also keep up and maintain in repair a good and sufficient causey through the said marsh to the river side; and the said Archibald Ritchie, his heirs or assigns, may demand and take the following rates for ferriage, that is to say, for a man one shilling, and for a horse the same; and in that proportion for transporting of carriages, cattle, and other things, and no more. | ||
| II. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if any other person whatsoever shall for reward set any person or persons over any river whereon public ferries are hereby established, he or she so offending, shall forfeit and pay five pounds, current money, for every such offence; one moiety to the ferry-keeper nearest the place where such offence shall be committed, and the other moiety to the informer. And if such ferry-keeper inform, he shall have the whole penalty, to be recovered with costs, by action of debt or information, in any county court of this dominion. | Penalty for setting persons over the for reward, where public ferries are established. | |
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| WHEREAS so much of an act of assembly, passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late majesty George the second, intituled, An act for the better regulating and training the militia, as relates to the appointment of patrollers, their duty, and reward, has been found inconvenient; for remedy whereof, 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 it shall | Duty of officers of militia in relation to patrollers. |
| and may be lawful for the chief officer of the militia in every county, and he is hereby required something before the tenth day of June, yearly, to appoint an officer, and so many men of the militia, as to him shall appear to be necessary, not exceeding four, once in every month, or oftener if thereunto required by such chief officer, to patrol and visit all negro quarters and other places suspected of entertaining unlawful assemblies of slaves, servants, or other disorderly persons, as aforesaid unlawfully assembled, or any other strolling about from one plantation to another, without a pass from is or her master, mistress or overseer, and to carry them before the next justice of peace; who, if he shall see cause, is to order every such slave, servant, stroller, or other disorderly person as aforesaid, to receive any number of lashes, not exceeding twenty, on his or her bare back, well laid on; and in case one company of patrollers shall not be sufficient, to order more companies of patrollers for the same service, and once in six months at the least, the officer of each party shall return to the commanding officer of his county, a report in writing, upon oath (which oath such officer is hereby empowered to administer) of the names of those of his party, who were upon duty, and of the proceedings in such patrol, by whom they shall be certified and delivered to the court of the said county some time before laying the county levy; and if the said court shall adjudge the patrollers to have performed their duty according to law, they are hereby impowered and required at the laying of their county levy, to allow to and levy for every one of the patrollers twenty pounds of tobacco, for every twelve hours they shall so patrol. | |
| II. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if the chief officer of the militia, in any county, shall fail to appoint patrollers according to the directions of this act, such officer shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds; and every person appointed to patrol in pursuance of this act, failing to do his duty therein, shall pay the sum of twenty shillings for every failure; which fines shall be laid by the court martial of the said county, and shall be collected, levied, accounted for, and appropriated as in the said recited act is directed. And whereas it may be necessary at some times to employ a greater number of patrollers than have been appointed at the time before prescribed by this act: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the | Penalties. |
| chief officer of the militia in every county may appoint as many more patrollers as he shall think proper, who shall be under the like regulations, and subject to the same penalties, and shall also receive the same pay for their services as those before appointed; but the said additional patrollers shall not be confirmed in office longer than the pressing cause of their appointment shall remain. | ||
| III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every clause and article of the said recited act, within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed and made void. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS an act of assembly, made in the third year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for establishing Pilots, and regulating their fees, will expire at the end of this present session of assembly: and it being found expedient that the said act should be continued for the purposes therein mentioned: 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, and every clause and article thereof, shall be and continue in force from the end of this present session of assembly, for and during the term of three years, from thence next following, and no longer. | Act establishing pilots continued. |
| CHAP. IX. An act for lessening the allowance for the inspection of flour. | ||
| I. WHEREAS by an act of General Assembly, made in the fifth year of his present majesty's reign, to amend an act for inspecting pork, beef, flour, tar, pitch, and turpentine, an allowance is made of three-pence for every barrel of flour containing two hundred and twenty weight, or less; and of six-pence for every barrel of flour of greater weight, to the inspector thereof; which allowance is found too great for such service: 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 for the future the inspector of flour shall have and receive one penny half-penny for every cask or barrel of flour by him inspected and marked, according to the directions of the said act, and no more; any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. | Fees of inspectors of flour reduced. | |
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| I. WHEREAS the act of assembly made in the first year of his majesty's reign, intituled, An act for regulating the practice of attornies, will expire at the end of this present session of assembly, and it being necessary that the said act should be 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 recited act of assembly shall continue and be in force from and after the expiration aforesaid, for and during the term of three years, and from thence to the end of the next session of assembly. | Act for regulating the practice of attornies continued. |
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| I. WHEREAS the several courts of this colony were either omitted to be held, or when held, refused to admit the acknowledgment or proof of deeds for conveying lands, slaves, or other estate, which by law are required to be recorded within eight months from the date thereof, during all the time from the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, until the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six by reason whereof, the titles claimed under such deeds as could not by this means be recorded, within the time by law directed, may be drawn into dispute, and although such purchasers might have relieved themselves by taking new deeds, yet many persons through ignorance or mistake, may have omitted to use such precaution: For remedy herein; 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 all deeds and other conveyance of lands, slaves, or other estate, made according to the directions of the several acts of assembly relating thereto, which bear date at any time within eight months next before the said first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, who also all deeds and other conveyances of lands, slaves, or other estate so made, which bear date at any time between the first of November, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, and the first of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, and which shall be acknowledged by the parties, or proved as the said acts require, and recorded within eight months from the first day of March next, shall be as effectual for passing the | Limitation for proving deeds extended, in consequence of the confusion produced by the stamp act. |
| estate thereby conveyed, as if such deed had been recorded within eight months from the date thereof; any thing in the said laws to the contrary notwithstanding. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS the act passed in the fifth year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An act for increasing the rewards for killing wolves within certain counties, to be paid by the respective counties wherein the services shall be performed, will expire on the first day of June, in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, and it is necessary that the said act (except so much thereof as relates to the counties of Buckingham, Fauquier, and Loudon) should be further 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 (except as to the said counties of Buckingham, Fauquier, and Loudon) shall continue and be in force from and after the said first day of June, for and during the term of two years and no longer. | Act increasing rewards for killing wolves in certain counties further continued. | |
| II. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said recited act as relates to the said counties of Buckingham, Fauquier, and Loudon, be, and the same is hereby repealed and made void. |
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| I. WHEREAS no person was qualified to execute the office of sheriff, for the counties of King George or Buckingham, for the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six; and the sheriff of the county of Fauquier was not able to give security for the collection of the tobacco levied in the public proportion in that county, to have been collected in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, whereby the said public levy, in the county of Fauquier, and the land and poll tax, and the tax on wheel carriages, in the said counties of King George and Buckingham, for this present year, remain uncollected: 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 sheriff of the said county of Fauquier, shall, with his other collections to be made in the succeeding year, receive of the tithable persons in the said county, according to the lists taken and returned in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, the tobacco so levied in the public proportion in the said county, according to the directions of two acts of assembly passed in the fifth of his present majesty's reign, the one, intitled, An act for raising a public levy, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and the other one, intituled, An act to amend an act for raising a public levy, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and shall have the like power of making distress, and shall account for and pay the levy so to be collected, to the treasurer of this colony, and to the respective creditors, named in the said proportion, at the same times in the year one thousand seven hundred and | Provision for collecting the taxes in King George and Buckingham, and the public levy in Fauquier. |
| sixty-seven, as by the said acts is directed to be done in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five; and that the sheriffs of the said counties of King George and Buckingham, respectively, shall, with the taxes to be collected the succeeding year, collect and receive the land and poll tax, and the duty on wheel carriages, in the said counties, payable the tenth day of April last past, according to the lists taken and returned in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, and shall have the same power of making distress, and shall account for and pay the same to the treasurer in like manner, under the same regulations, and subject to the like penalty and proceedings, as is provided for and in respect of the like taxes, payable in April next, by the several laws now in force. | ||
| II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the sheriffs of the said counties respectively, shall, on or before the first day of March next, enter into bond, with good and sufficient security, before their respective county courts for their due collection and payment of the said levy and taxes, according to the directions of this act. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present general assembly, that it is just and necessary that the vestry of the parish of Truro, in the county of Fairfax, should be impowered to dispose of the glebe and church plate of the said parish: 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 glebe land, with the appurtenances, and also the said church plate, be, and the same are hereby vested in the present vestry of the said parish of Truro, and in the vestry of the | Vestry of parish of Truro, in Fairfax county authorised to sell their glebe and church plate. |
| said parish for the time being: In Trust, nevertheless, that the said vestry, or the greater part of them, shall sell the said church plate for the most that can be got for the same, and shall also, 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; to hold to such purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs, and assigns for ever. | |
| II And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the vestry of the said parish of Truro, after they have received the money arising from the sale of the said church plate, shall pay to the vestry of the parish of Cameron, in the county of Loudon, for the use of their said parish, such part of the sales of the said church plate, as their proportion thereof would have amounted to, according to the number of their respective tithables, at the time the said parish of Cameron, was divided from the said parish of Truro; and the residue of the money arising from the sales of the said church plate, together with the money arising from the sales of the said glebe lands, shall be divided between the vestries of the parishes of Truro and Fairfax, as their respective proportions thereof would have amounted to, according to the number of their respective tithables, at the time the said parishes were divided. | Proceeds apportioned between parishes of Truro, Cameron, and Fairfax. |
| III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the proportion of the sales, as aforesaid, to be allotted to the vestry of the said parish of Truro, shall be laid out and applied towards purchasing a convenient glebe, in the said parish, for the use and benefit of the minister thereof, for the time being, for ever. | Proportion of Truro, how applied. |
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| I. WHEREAS the vestry of Lunenburg parish, in the county of Richmond, for the better accommodating their present glebe with a sufficient supply of fire-wood, rail, and other timber, as well as a convenient glebe house, and other necessary houses, have lately purchased of captain John Beale, a tract of land, containing by estimation four hundred acres, adjoining to the glebe aforesaid, with a mansion-house, and other necessaries, for the sum of six hundred and fifty pounds, current money; and the said parish being desirous to annex the said purchase (except a small part to be laid off for a poor house) to the present glebe, in the nature of a donation: 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 said four hundred acres of land, purchased as aforesaid (except a small part thereof, to be laid off for erecting a poor house thereon, which the vestry of the said parish are hereby impowered to do) shall be annexed to, and made part of the glebe of the said parish, and his successor, in all times hereafter, and shall be subject to, and under the same regulations as the present glebes in this colony are, by an act of assembly made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late majesty, intituled, An act for the support of the clergy and for the regular collecting and paying the parish levies. And for the better preservation of the timber and wood, growing on the said purchased and, it is hereby declared and enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful for any minister of the said parish at any time hereafter to cut down or destroy the timber or wood growing on the said purchased and, more than sufficient for the necessary firing, fencing, and repairing the houses of the said glebe; and every minister committing such waste, shall be liable to an action at the suit of the church wardens, and the damages recovered in such action, shall be to the use to the said parish. | Certain lands annexed to glebe of Lunenburg parish, in Richmond county. |
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| I. WHEREAS many inconveniences attend the inhabitants of the county of Halifax, by reason of the extent thereof; and the said inhabitants have petitioned this general assembly that the aid county may be divided: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of June next ensuing, the said county of Halifax be divided into two counties, by a line to be run from the mouth of Strait Stone creek, on Staunton river, to the country line, near the mouth of the country line creek, on Dan river; and that all that part of the said county, which lies on the upper side of the said line, shall be one distinct county, and called and known by the name of Pittsylvania; and that all the other part thereof, which is below the said line, shall be one other distinct county, and retain the name of Halifax. And for the due administration of Justice in the said county of Pittsylvania: Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That after the said first day of June, a court for the said county of Pittsylvania be constantly held by the justices thereof, upon the fourth Friday in every month, in such manner as by the laws of this colony is provided, and shall be by their commissions directed. | Halifax county, divided, and Pittsylvania
formed. Boundaries. Court days. | |
| II. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder the sheriff or collector of the said county of Halifax, as the same now stands entire and undivided, from collecting and making distress for any public dues or officers fees, which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants of Pittsylvania at the time of its taking place; but such sheriff or collector shall have the same power to collect or distrain for the said dues and fees, and shall be answerable for them in the same manner as if this act had never been made; any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding. |
| III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the court of the said county of Halifax shall have jurisdiction of all actions and suits, both in law and equity, which shall be depending before them at the time the said division shall take place, and shall and may try and determine all such actions and suits, and issue process, and award execution against the body or estate of the defendant or defendants, in any such action or suit, in the same manner as if this act had never been made; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in any wise, not withstanding. And whereas by reason of the great extent of the parish of Antrim, in the said county of Halifax, the inhabitants of that parish do lie under divers inconveniences: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of June, the said parish of Antrim shall be divided by the line herein before established, as the dividing line of the said county of Halifax, into two distinct parishes; and all that part of the said parish, which lies on the upper side of the said line, shall be one distinct parish, and thereafter called and known by the name of Cambden; and that all the other part thereof, which is below the said line, s hall be one other distinct parish, and retain the name of Antrim. | Antrim parish divided and Cambden formed. |
| IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the freeholders and housekeepers of the said parishes of Antrim and Cambden, respectively, shall meet at some convenient time and place, to be appointed and publicly advertised by the sheriffs of the said counties of Halifax and Pittslyvania, respectively, at least one month before the first day of June next ensuing, and then and there elect twelve of the most able and discreet person of their respective parishes for vestry-men, in each of the said parishes, which vestry-men so elected, having in the courts of Halifax and Pittsylvania, respectively, taken and subscribed the oaths appointed to be taken by one act of parliament made in the sixth year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An act for altering the oath of abjuration and the assurance and for amending so much of an act of the seventh year of her late majesty queen Anne, intituled, An act for the improvement of the union of the two kingdoms, as after the time therein limited, requires the delivery of certain lists and copies therein mentioned, to persons indited of high treason, or misprision of treason, and taken and subscribed the oath of abjuration, and repeated and |
| subscribed the test, and also subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, shall to all intents and purposes be deemed and taken to be the vestries of the said parishes, respectively. | |
| V. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder the collector of the said parish of Antrim, as the same is now entire and undivided, from collecting or making distress for any parish levies, which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants of the said parish of Cambden, at the time of its taking place; but such collector shall have the same power to collect and distrain for the said levies, and shall be answerable for them in the same manner as if this act had never been made; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in anywise, notwithstanding. And whereas the glebe of the said parish of Antrim, after the division aforesaid shall take place, will be very inconvenient to the inhabitants thereof: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said glebe land, be, and the same is hereby vested in the vestry of the said parish, and in the vestry of the said parish for the time being: In Trust, 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 such person or persons as shall be willing to purchase; to hold to such purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs, and assigns, for ever. And the said vestry, after they have received the purchased money for which the said glebe shall be sold, shall pay to the vestry of the said parish of Cambden, for the use of their said parish, such part of the said money as their proportion there shall amount to, according to the number of their respective tithables at the time the division of the said parish shall take place. | Glebe of Antrim parish to be sold, and proceeds divided between parishes of Antrim and Cambden. |
| VI. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the residue of the said money, arising by the sale of the said glebe, shall, by the vestry of the said parish of Antrim be laid out and applied towards purchasing a good and convenient glebe for the use and benefit of the minister of the said parish for the time being, for ever. And for the more easy payment of all levies, secretaries, clerks, and other officers fees, by the inhabitants of the said county of Pittsylvania, who make little or no tobacco: Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said levies and fees may be paid in |
| money for tobacco, at twelve shillings and six-pence per hundred on the nett tobacco. And whereas the said county of Halifax, and the parish of Antrim, as they now stand entire and undivided, are indebted to sundry persons in divers sums of money, and quantities of tobacco; and also there are due and owing to the said county and parish, divers sums of money, and quantities of tobacco, which have been heretofore levied upon the tithable persons of the said county and parish, for paying the debts and defraying the contingent charges of them respectively: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That Hugh Enness, Thomas Dillard, junior, Thomas Tunstal, and John Lewis, gentlemen, of the county of Halifax, be, and they are hereby authorized and impowered to demand and receive of all and every person and persons indebted to the said county of Halifax, and parish of Antrim, as they now stand entire and undivided, all debts due and owing therefrom, and the overplus, if any, shall pay and satisfy to the justices of the said counties of Halifax and Pittsylvania, in proportion to the tithable persons in each of the said counties, to be by them applied towards lessening the levy of the said counties, respectively. | Levies and fees, due in tobacco payable in money, at 12s. 6d. per hundred. | |
| CHAP. XVII. | ||
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| I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present general assembly, by sundry inhabitants of the upper end of James City, and lower end of New Kent counties, that in their present situation they are subject to great inconveniences, by reason of their remoteness from their respective court-houses; and they having petitioned this general assembly, that the upper end of the said county of James City, may be added to the said county of | Part of James City county added to New Kent, and part of New Kent to James City. |
| New Kent, and the lower end of the said county of New Kent, may be added to James City: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of May next ensuing, all that part of New Kent county, which lies on the lower side of the bounds hereafter described, that is to say, beginning at the mouth of Diascun creek, on the Chickahominy river, thence up the said creek, on Chickahominy river, thence up the said creek to the mouth of John Blair, esquire, his mill swamp, thence up the said swamp to the mill, thence up the mill pond to the head thereof, thence up that watercourse to a marked red oak, at Isaac Goddin's spring near the said Goddin's house, thence eastwardly to a marked persimmen at the head of a branch near the main road, on the lower side of Goddin's house, thence to an oak near James Hockaday's spring, thence down the said spring branch to Russell's mill, thence down the mill swamp to Ware creek, and then down the said creek to York river, shall be, and the same is hereby added to, and made part of James City county; and that all that part of the said county of James City, which lies on the upper side of the bounds herein before described, shall be and the same is hereby added to, and made part of New Kent county. | Boundaries. |
| II. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder the sheriffs or collectors of the said counties of James City and New Kent, respectively, as the same now stand, from collecting and making distress for any public dues or officers fees, which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants of either of the said counties of James City and new Kent, at the time this act shall take place; but such sheriff or collector shall have the same power to collect or distrain for the said dues and fees, and shall be answerable for them in the same manner as if this act had never been made; any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary thereof in anywise, notwithstanding. | |
| III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the courts of the said counties of James City and New Kent, shall have jurisdiction of all actions and suits which shall be respectively depending before them at the time this act shall take place; and shall and may try and determine all such actions and suits, and issue process, and award execution thereon, against the |
| body or estate of the defendant or defendants, in any such action or suit in the same manner as if this act had never been made; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in anywise, notwithstanding. | |
| IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of May, the receipts or notes of the inspectors, at Littlepage's warehouse, in the said county of New Kent, shall not pass in payment of any quitrents, levies or officers fees, in the said county of James City; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. | |
| CHAP. XVIII. An act for giving a salary to the speaker of the house of Burgesses. | |
| I. WHEREAS it has been thought expedient that the offices of speaker of the house of burgesses, and treasurer of this colony should be separated; by which means the speaker is deprived of that provision which was formerly allowed by the emoluments arising from the treasury, whilst the said offices remain united. And whereas it is necessary, in order to support the dignity of the said office, and to enable the speaker to employ his time in the service of his country, that a proper allowance should be made him: 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 treasurer of this colony, out of the public money in his hands, do pay to Peyton Randolph, esquire, speaker of the house of burgesses, or the speaker for the time being, the sum of five hundred pounds sterling, to be paid at four equal payments, that is to say, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling on the sixth day of February next, and the like sum on the sixth day of May, August, and November, respectively, and so annually during the continuance of this present general assembly, and in case of a dissolution thereof, until the meeting of the succeeding assembly. | Offices of speaker of the house of
burgesses & treasurer separated. Salary allowed the speaker, in lieu of emoluments as treasurer. |
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