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| CHAP. LXI. An act to amend the act intitled "An act for clearing Roanoke river." (Passed the 16th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS extending the navigation of the river Roanoke from the Falls, upwards to the fork of Dan and Staunton rivers, and up the said rivers Staunton and Dan to the heads thereof, will be of great benefit and advantage, as well to the inhabitants of the interior parts of this state, as to the public in general, and it is represented to this present General Assembly, that many persons are willing and desirous to subscribe and contribute thereto; For the encouragement of such an useful and laudable undertaking, | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That Henry E. Coleman, Richard Kennon, Samuel Hopkins, Samuel Goode, George Carrington, Thomas Watkins, Clement Carrington, William Terry, William Morton, John Wilson, John Early, Matthew Clay, Meade Anderson, George Hairston, and Archibald Hughes, gentlemen, be and they are hereby nominated, constituted and appointed trustees for clearing so much of the said rivers as shall be within this state, and they are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to take and receive subscriptions for that purpose; and if any person or persons shall neglect, fail or refuse to pay the several sums of money respectively subscribed, for the purpose of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees respectively, or undertaker, to recover the same of the person or persons so neglecting, failing or refusing, of his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators by motion in any court of record within this Commonwealth, on giving reasonable notice thereof. | Trustees appointed for clearing Roanoke, Dan and Staunton rivers; |
| SECT. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said trustees respectively, or any five of them, shall have full power and authority to contract and agree with any person or persons for clearing so much of the said rivers as shall be within this state, proper, and to remove all hedges, rocks or stops, which the said trustees shall think may in any wise obstruct the said navigation. | Duty of the trustees. |
| SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees respectively, or any five of them, from time to time, as often as they shall see occasion, shall and may nominate and appoint one or more of their number, to be receiver or receivers of all monies that shall be subscribed for the purpose of this act; who shall in the court of the county where he or they shall reside, give bond with sufficient security in a reasonable penalty to this Commonwealth, with a condition that he or they, his or their heirs, executors or administrators, at all times when required, shall and will truly and faithfully account with the said trustees and undertaker, for all monies which shall come to the hands of such receiver or receivers for the purpose of this act, and pay the same to such person or persons, as the said trustees or any five of those who agree to act, shall order and direct. | Receivers to be appointed. | |
| SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, resignation or removal out of the country, or the legal disability of any one or more of the said trustees, it shall and may be lawful for the surviving or remaining trustees, or any five of them, from time to time, to elect and choose so many persons in the room of those dead, resigned, removed or disabled, as shall make up the number thirteen, which trustees so chosen, shall ve vested with the same power and authority as any others in this act particularly named. | Vacancies in the trustees, how to be supplied. | |
| SECT. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of every act or acts as comes within the purview of this act, shall be and is hereby repealed. | ||
 CHAP. LXII. | ||
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| (Passed the 21st of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of the counties of Accomack and Northampton have petitioned the present General Assembly, that Joseph Wilsey of North-Carolina, | Preamble. |
| James Rosekrans of New-York, and Robert Twiford of Accomack, may have the exclusive privilege of running a stage waggon from Northampton court-house to the line of Maryland near Swansey-gut bridge, and also the privilege of transporting passengers across Chesapeak Bay: | |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted, That the said Joseph Wilsey, James Rosekrans and Robert Twiford, shall have the sole and exclusive privilege of conveying for hire, persons in stage carriages between Northampton courthouse and the line of Maryland near Swansey-gut bridge for and during the term of seven years, from the passing of this act, and shall and may demand and take for each passenger three pence per mile, and three pence per mile for every one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage, exceeding fourteen pounds conveyed in any of their stage waggons. | Exclusive privilege of running a stage between certain places
granted to certain persons. Rates. |
| SECT. 3. If the said Wilsey, Rosekrans and Twiford by themselves or any other, shall demand or receive any greater rates than are hereby allowed, they shall forfeit and pay double the sum so demanded or received to be recovered with costs by summons and petition in either of the county courts of Accomack or Northampton, and if the sum be under twenty-five shillings, before any justice of the peace, in either of the said counties by warrant to the use of the party injured in both cases. | Penalty for demanding more than the legal rates. |
| SECT. 4. If any person or persons other than the said Wilsey, Rosekrans and Twiford their agents or servants, shall establish or run any stage carriages between either of the said places, or demand or take directly or indirectly any fee or reward whatsoever, for conveying any person or persons or their baggage in a stage carriage or carriages between either of the places aforesaid, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay for every stage established or run, the sum of five hundred pounds, and for every person or one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage by him or them so conveyed fifty pounds, to be recovered with costs by action of debt, bill, plaint or information in either of the courts aforesaid to the use of the said Wilsey, Rosekrans and Twiford. | Penalty on any other person running a stage between the said places. |
| SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid Joseph Wilsey, James Rosekrans and Robert Twiford shall have the right of establishing one or more packet boats for the purpose of conveying their stage passengers across the Chesapeak bay from Cheritons | Proprietors authorized to establish a packet boat for conveying their passengers |
| river or Hungars in the county of Northampton to the towns of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and from the said towns to the said ports of Cheritons or Hungars, and may demand and receive for each passenger fifteen shillings, and fifteen shillings for each horse. | across Chesapeak; |
| SECT. 6. Provided, that the said Joseph Wisley, James Rosekrans or Robert Twiford shall on or before the first day of July next enter into bond with sufficient security in the county court of Accomack or Northampton in the sum of one thousand pounds, payable to the governor and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth, with condition for the due and faithful keeping up the said line of stages for one year after their first running, and before the expiration of each year, enter into bond in the like sum and on the like condition for the due and faithful keeping up the said line of stages for one year more, and shall begin to run their said stage carriages on or before the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. | To enter into bond with security for keeping up the line of
stages. When they shall begin to run their stages. |
| SECT. 7. On the said Joseph Wilsey, James
Rosekrans and Robert Twiford, ceasing to keep up the said line of stages, their privilege to keep
a packet boat shall cease and determine. SECT. 8. Provided always, That if the proprietor of the ferry at Hungars, established by law, will undertake to transport stage passengers and horses, across Chesapeak to the towns of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and from thence to the said ferry at Hungars on the terms prescribed in this act, and subject to such regulations as to time, as will correspond with the regulations established by the proprietors of the line of stages, she or he, giving bond in the sum of five hundred pounds on or before the first day of July next, with security to be approved by the county court of Northampton, conditioned for the faithful execution of the duty of a ferry or packet boat attending the said line of stages, shall have and enjoy the exclusive privilege of transporting the same, other wise the said Joseph Wilsey, James Rosekrans and Robert Twiford, shall be permitted to establish a ferry at Cheritons, as directed by this act. |
Privilege of keeping a packet boat to continue only while they
keep up the line of stages. Proprietor of Hungar's ferry to have the exclusive privilege of conveying the said stage passengers across the Chesapeak on certain conditions. |
| SECT. 9. And be it further enacted, That Richard Towns and John Woolfolk, shall have a right to convey their passengers travelling from the southward to the northward, across the said bay from the town of Portsmouth | Towns and Woolfolk authorized to convey their stage passengers across |
| to Hungars, when the Hungars boat is not there to take them, and may receive the same
ferriage as is herein before established. CHAP. LXIII. |
the Chesapeak, when the Hungar's ferry boat is not ready to receive them. | |
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| (Passed the 28th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, that it shall and may be lawful for the freeholders, house-keepers and free male inhabitants of the town of Staunton in the county of Augusta aged twenty-one years, other than free negroes or mulattoes, who have resided therein for the space of six months and who possess in their own right within the said town, moveable property of the value of twenty pounds to elect and choose six trustees in addition to the number heretofore allowed by law, which election shall be conducted by the sheriff of the said county and held at the courthouse on the first tuesday in March or April next, of which previous notice shall be given by advertisement at the door of the courthouse ten days preceding such election: the trustees so elected shall be under the same regulations and liable to the same penalties as the trustees now in office. | Six additional trustees to be elected. | |
| SECT. 2. The sheriff shall make return of the persons elected to the clerk of the court to be by him recorded, and moreover return a fair copy of the poll by him taken to the persons having the greatest number of votes to be recorded with the other proceedings of the said trustees in books to be by them kept for that purpose. | The sheriff to make a return of the persons elected. | |
| SECT. 3. The said trustees so elected with those already in office, and their successors or a majority of them shall have power to erect and repair a market-house on the public ground in the said town; to appoint a clerk of the market; to regulate and repair the streets and highways of the same; to remove nuisances and obstructions therein; to keep in repair the canals already made by | Powers of the trustees. |
| legal authority, which convey the water to and through the said town, and open and keep in repair other canals, as they or a majority of them shall think necessary and useful for the inhabitants thereof, and to impose taxes not exceeding forty pounds annually, for and during the term of two years from the passage of this act, and from and after the expiration of the said term, the sum of twenty-five pounds annually, on the tithables and property real and personal within the said town, on all tithables who who have no taxable property, a tax not exceeding five shillings per tithable annually, and on the other inhabitants and freeholders in proportion to their taxable property respectively, for the purpose of carrying into execution all or any of the powers hereby given them; to make provision and regulations for the collecting and accounting for the taxes so raised by appointing a collector and directing distress to be made for delinquencies or by any other ways or means, and to make such ordinances and regulations not contrary to the laws and constitution of this Commonwealth as shall by them or a majority of them be thought necessary for carrying this act into effect. | |
| SECT. 4. Provided always, that before the trustees shall in future make or cause to be made any canal in the said town of Staunton, which may injure any individual or individuals through whose lots the same may be designed to pass, they shall, provided the individual affected by the said canal or his agent or attorney shall require the same, or provided the proprietor of such lot or lots shall be an infant, feme covert, or non compos mentis, sue out from the clerk's office for the county of Augusta, a writ in the nature of a writ in the nature of a writ of ad quod damnum to be directed to the sheriff of the said county, commanded him on a certain day therein to be named, of which day the party to be affected as aforesaid, his agent or attorney shall have five days previous notice at the least, to impannel twelve disinterested persons, six of whom shall be inhabitants of the said town of Staunton and the other six freeholders of the said county of Augusta and most convenient to the said town, who being first sworn to enquire whether any, and if any, what damages will be sustained by the individual or individuals through whose lot or lots such canal shall be proposed to be made, the said sheriff on the day appointed in the said writ shall with the jurors aforesaid | How they are to proceed when any canal is to be cut through the town. |
| proceed to make the said enquiry and shall report the same under the hands and seals, of the jurors to the next court to be held for the said county of Augusta where the same shall be received and recorded. And in like manner where any canal hath already been made the person or persons who are affected thereby, may sue out a writ in the nature of a writ of ad quod damnum, to be directed and executed as is before mentioned, and the jury summoned in consequence of such writ, shall enquire of what damage the continuance of such canal will be to the person or persons through whose lands the same may pass and the same shall be reported to the court for the county of Augusta and recorded as is before directed; and in either of the above cases it shall be discretional with the said trustees for the town of Staunton, to proceed to make the canal proposed to be made, or to continue any canal which may be already made, or not, as they shall find it expedient. | |
| SECT. 5. The trustees of the said town shall be displaced on the first Tuesday in March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and on the same day in every third year thereafter, and the vacancies supplied by new elections on the same or next succeeding day respectively under the like rules and regulations as herein before prescribed; intermediate vacancies by death or otherwise shall be supplied in like manner on a day to be appointed by the remaining trustees. | Present trustees when to be displaced; Their successors, when to be elected. |
| SECT. 6. No person shall be capable of being elected a trustee who is not a freeholder and an inhabitant of the said town at the time of election. | Qualification of the trustees. |
| SECT. 7. Whensoever a trustee shall cease to be a freeholder and an inhabitant as aforesaid, he shall thenceforth be considered as disqualified and another shall be elected in his stead. | When disqualified. |
| SECT. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall stop or alter the present canals or those that may hereafter be made for conveying the water to and through the said town, he shall, for every offence forfeit and pay the sum of two pounds, to be recovered on motion of the trustees in the county court of Augusta with costs, upon giving the party ten days previous notice of such motion, and the money so recovered shall be applied by the trustees to the like purposes as the taxes to be imposed in virtue of this act. | Penalty on persons for stopping or altering the canals. |
| SECT. 9. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or empower the said trustees by any regulations whatsoever, to injure or affect the mill of Michael Fackler, or any mill that may hereafter be built within the said town. | Certain mills not to be affected by any regulations of the trustees. | |
| CHAP. LXIV. | ||
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| (Passed the 20th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of Richmond, or any five of them, the mayor, recorder or eldest alderman being one, may hold a court for the trial of slaves in like manner and subject to the same laws, rules and regulations as the justices of the county courts may now do: Provided That their jurisdiction be limited to offences committed within the jurisdiction of the court of Hustings for the said city. | Court of Hustings of Richmond authorized to try slaves; | |
| SECT. 2. And it shall be lawful for the serjeant of the said city, and he is hereby required previous to the courts in March, May, August and November, to summon a grand jury of the freeholders within the said city, to meet at these several courts, which grand juries shall, respecting crimes and offences done, committed or suffered within the limits aforesaid, possess and exercise the same powers, and be subject to the same penalties as grand jurors in the county courts. | And to impannel grand juries. | |
| SECT. 3. The court of Hustings for the said city shall sit on the second Monday in every month: | Court day. | |
| SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of and residents in the said city, subject to militia duty, shall be formed into a distinct regiment, and shall not be obliged to attend company or regimental musters except in or near the said city; but shall remain under the lieutenant or commanding officer of the militia of the county of Henrico, and be subject to and governed by | Militia to be formed into a distinct regiment. |
| the several laws respecting the militia, in like manner as the militia of the county of Henrico. | |
| SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That the courts of hustings of the city of Williamsburg and borough of Norfolk, at their respective quarterly sessions, shall have the same power and authority to impannel grand juries as is by this act given to the court of hustings of the city of Richmond. | Courts of hustings of Williams burg and Norfolk to impannel grand juries. |
| SECT. 6. And be it further enacted,
That the inhabitants of the borough of Norfolk, shall not be grand jurymen for the county of
Norfolk. SECT. 7. So much of every act as comes within the purview of this act shall be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Inhabitants of Norfolk borough not to act as grand jurymen in Norfolk county. |
| CHAP. LXV. An act directing the purchase of a Bell for the Capitol, and for other purposes. (Passed the 16th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the directors of the public buildings shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase at the public expence, a fit and suffient bell for the use of the capitol. | Directors of the public buildings to procure a bell, |
| SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said directors shall likewise provide as many stoves of cast iron as may be necessary for the use of the house of delegates, the senate room, and the court room, and cause the same to be set up, at the public expence, kn such part of the house of delegates, the senate room, and court room in the capitol, as to them may appear most convenient. And that the directors of the public buildings shall also cause the following alteration to be made in the senate room, to wit: Open a door of entrance from the room adjoining the senate room, opposite to the fire place, and to lay off a gallery on each side of the said door to be separate from the room by a decent balustrade. | and stoves for the capitol. Alterations to be made in senate room. |
| SECT. 3. The auditor of public accounts shall issue his warrant to the said directors for the amount of such purchase money, which shall be paid by the treasurer out of any public money in his hands. | The auditor to grant warrants for the amount of the expences. | |
| CHAP. LXVI. | ||
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| (Passed the 27th of November, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS the intercourse between this country and Kentuckey is much interrupted by the depredations and murders committed by the hostile tribes of Indians who live contiguous to the road leading through the wilderness. | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted, That the commanding officers of the counties of Mercer, Lincoln, and Madison, shall be and they are hereby authorized and directed to order out of their respective counties alternately in every year, thirty effective men, in the months of October and November, to rendezvous on the road leading through the wilderness, at the east foot of Cumberland mountain, on the fifteenth day of October, and on the tenth day of November: That the said guard shall be commanded by such person as the commanding officer of the county from which they are taken shall think fit to appoint, whose duty it shall be to guard and protect such company through the wilderness, as may be in readiness at the place and on the days abovementioned. The guards shall be called out and perform the duty herein required, alternately in the order in which the counties are herein beforenamed in this act. | Guards to be furnished by certain counties to protect travellers through the wilderness. | |
| SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said officer appointed as aforesaid, and the guard under him ordered out, shall furnish themselves with the necessary arms, ammunition and provision for the purposes aforesaid. The said officer shall receive for his services six shillings per day, and each of the guard four shillings per | To provide themselves with arms, provisions, &c. Their pay; |
| day: Their several accounts shall be liquidated and adjusted by the commanding officer of the county from which they were ordered, who shall transmit on oath to the receiver of the taxes for the said district, a pay roll specifying particularly the names of those belonging to each company, and the time of their entering into and leaving the service: he shall also grant to each person a certificate expressing the number of days he served, the time when the service was performed, and the allowance for such service, which said certificate granted as aforesaid, shall be receivable by the sheriff of the said county in discharge of the public taxes due from the said county, and the same shall be received from him in the settlement of his accounts with the receiver, who shall be allowed the same in the settlement of his accounts in like manner as he is by law allowed for other certificates receivable for the taxes of the said district. | Certificates therefor receivable in discharge of taxes. | |
| CHAP. LXVII. | ||
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| (Passed the 16th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS it is represented that the opening the navigation of Blackwater river, from Little Town on the said river, as high as Broadwater bridge will be of great utility. | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the courts of the counties of Southampton and Isle of Wight, shall and they are hereby respectively empowered and required to appoint so many surveyors as they may think necessary, and allot to each his respective precinct, whose duty it shall be to superintend and see that all obstructions which in any manner injure the navigation of the said river, within his precinct, be removed from time to time as such obstructions shall happen. | Surveyors of the river to be appointed; Their duty; |
| SECT. 3. The courts of the said counties shall respectively appoint so many male labouring persons, as they may judge most convenient, to work in clearing the said river: every person so appointed, who, when required by the surveyor, placed over him, shall without legal cause or disability, fail to attend, with proper tools for clearing the said river, or shall refuse to work when there, or find some other person equally able to work in his room, shall pay the sum of seven shillings and sixpence for every days offence, if he be a freeman of full age, if an infant, then to be paid by his parent, guardian or master, and if a slave or servant, then by his overseer if he be under one, or otherwise by his master or mistress. | Persons to be appointed to labour in clearing the river;
Penalty on those refusing to labour; |
| SECT. 4. Every surveyor failing to do his duty as required by this act, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds. | On a surveyor for neglect of duty; |
| SECT. 5. If any landholder on the said river, being resident thereon, if not, the tenant or overseer shall suffer any tree to be felled from his land, or the land of which he is a tenant, or resides on as an overseer into the said river, and therein to remain the space of twenty-four hours, every such landholder, tenant or overseer shall forfeit and pay the sum of eighteen shillings. | On persons felling trees into the river. |
| SECT. 6. The persons appointed to clear the
said river shall be exempted from working on roads. SECT. 7. All the penalties in this act shall be one moiety to the informer, and the other to the use of that county in which the penalty is incurred, recoverable with costs on warrant, or petition and summons as the case may be. |
Persons working on the river exempted from working on
roads. Penalties, how to be recovered. |
| CHAP. LXVIII. An act for continuing the allowance of Pensions to certain persons. (Passed the 11th of December, 1790.) | |
| BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That William Barret, Francis Whiting, John Green, Samuel Selden, William M'Guire, George Hite, Willis Wilson and Thomas Fenn shall continue to receive their respective | Certain officers to receive the pensions heretofore granted to |
| pensions heretofore allowed them under the laws of this Commonwealth, in the same manner as if the law referring them to the Congress of the United States had never been made. | them by the state. |
| CHAP. LXIX. An act concerning Jospeh Hodges. (Passed the 11th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That Joseph Hodges, who in a skirmish which happened during the late war, between a party of British and American troops, received a wound from a musket ball in his leg, which has disabled him from supporting himself by labour, shall henceforth be placed on the list of pensioners, and be allowed the sum of twelve pounds per annum. | Joseph Hodges allowed a pension during life; |
| SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the auditor of public accounts shall, and he is hereby required, to issue to the said Joseph Hodges on application in person, or by an attorney, a warrant on the treasury for the sum of twelve pounds, payable out of the contingent fund for his present relief. | And a certain sum of money for his present relief. |
| CHAP. LXX. An act making provision for Thomas Price, a wounded soldier. (Passed the 16th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS it has been represented to this present General Assembly, That a certain Thomas Price of the county of Randolph served as a soldier in an expedition against the Indians undertaken during the administration of governor Dunmore, and by reason of a wound he received at the battle of the Point, is rendered unable to support himself by labour. | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the auditor of public accounts, on application by the said Thomas Price or his attorney legally authorized, shall issue a warrant on the treasury for the sum of fifteen pounds, which warrant shall refer to this act, and express the consideration whereon it was granted, and be made payable by the treasurer out of the contingent fund. | Thomas Price allowed a sum of money for his present relief; | |
| SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Thomas Price shall be entitled on application to the auditor in manner and form aforesaid, to receive half yearly, that is to say, on the first day of March and on the first day of September in each succeeding year, while he lives, a like warrant for the sum of seven pounds ten shillings, payable as is herein before directed. | And a pension during life. | |
| CHAP. LXXI. | ||
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| (Passed the 29th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted, That Thomas Nicolson shall be and he is hereby allowed thirty-five pounds for printing the journals of the Senate this session, for which sum the auditor shall issue his warrant which shall be paid by the treasurer out of any public money in the treasury. | A sum of money to be paid to Thomas Nicolson. | |
| SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the salary allowed the keeper of the public gaol shall in future be twenty-five pounds per annum. | Salary of the public gaoler. | |
| SECT. 3. This act shall commence and be in force on the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. | Commencement of the act. |
| CHAP. LXXII. An act for placing Mary Boush on the pension list. (Passed the 24th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS it is represented to the General Assembly, that Goodrich Boush entered into the service of his country at the first establishment of a naval armament; that he was appointed captain of an armed vessel belonging to this state, and continued in the service of the same, until his death, leaving Mary Boush his widow and four young children in distressed circumstances; that no relief whatever has been given to the said Mary Boush in conformity to an act of Assembly in that case made and provided. | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted, that the auditor of public accounts shall be, and he is hereby directed to issue a warrant or warrants on the treasury for three years half-pay of a captain in the navy of this state, as established by law, to the said Mary Boush for her immediate relief, and that the executive be authorized and directed to place her on the pension list, with an allowance of half-pay annually, for the term of seven years. | Mary Boush allowed a certain sum for her present relief;
And a pension for seven years. |
| CHAP. LXXIII. An act respecting Jacob Price and Abraham Nettles. (Passed the 20th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS Jacob Price and Abraham Nettles now residing in the county of Greenbrier, served as soldiers in the Virginia line on continental establishment during the late war, and by reason of disabilities received in the service, were placed on the list of pensions; and whereas under a law of this Commonwealth, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, the several county courts were required to appoint | Preamble. |
| surgeons to inspect the disabilities of pensioners within their counties, and report the same to the executive, but no steps being taken by the court of the county aforesaid, those of the said Price and Nettles were not reported according to the directions of the said law, and by reason thereof they were discontinued and stricken from off the said list by the executive; and it now appearing to the General Assembly, that the disabilities of the said Price and Nettles are such as to warrant the propriety of reinstating them as pensioners, and of restoring the several and respective pensions, whereof in manner aforesaid they have been deprived. | ||
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the auditor of public accounts shall and he is hereby directed to issue on application by the said Price and Nettles in person, or by attorney, a warrant or warrants, for the amount of the pensions formerly allowed them, from the date of the discontinuance aforesaid, to the fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. And the executive are hereby requested and required to represent the cases of the said Jacob Price and Abraham Nettles to the officer of the general government, having cognizance in such cases, in order that they may be paid their pensions from the said fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. | Warrants to be granted to Jacob Price and Abraham Nettles for
arrears of their pensions. The executive to represent their situation to the proper officer of the United States. | |
| CHAP. LXXIV. | ||
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| (Passed the 21st of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS by the report of the commissioners appointed to ascertain the losses sustained by the inhabitants of the borough of Norfolk, in consequence of the destruction of the said town in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the property of Joseph Calvert was postponed for further proof: And it has been represented to the present General Assembly, that the property of the said Joseph Calvert was destroyed by the troops of this state. | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted, That the auditor of public accounts shall, and he is hereby directed to issue to the said Joseph Calvert, his executors or administrators, a loan-office certificate for the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds, with warrants for interest on the same, in like manner as has been heretofore issued for property destroyed in the borough of Norfolk. | Auditor to issue a loan-office certificate to Joseph Calvert. | |
| CHAP. LXXV. | ||
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| (Passed the 16th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS from a sentence of condemnation passed in the court of admiralty of this commonwealth against the sloop the Philadelphia Packet, the said sloop with her cargo were sold, and one moiety thereof amounting to the sum of three hundred and forty pounds five shillings and eleven pence paid into the public treasury; from which sentence an appeal was granted to the court of appeals, and by a decree of that court, the same was reversed and annulled and the amount of such sales ordered to be restored: | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this Commonwealth and he is hereby authorized and required upon receipt of this act, to restore to such person or persons entitled to receive the same under the decree of the high court of appeals, the moiety to the said sloop the Philadelphia Packet and her cargo, so paid into the treasury, together with interest thereupon to be computed after the rate of five per centum per annum from the time the same was paid into the treasury. | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this Commonwealth and he is hereby authorized and required upon receipt of this act, to restore to such person or persons entitled to receive the same under the decree of the high court of appeals, the moiety of the said sloop the Philadelphia Packet and her cargo, so paid into the treasury, together with interest thereupon to be computed after the rate of five per centum per annum from the time the same was paid into the treasury. | The treasurer to pay a sum of money to the owners of the Philadelphia Packet. |
| CHAP. LXXVI. | ||
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| (Passed the 24th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That Richard Marshall of the county of Albemarle, who served as a soldier in the sixth Virginia regiment, and by reason of wound he received in the action at Campden, and Robert Ferguson of the county of Richmond, late a dragoon inlisted for the war in the Partizan legion, wounded in the campaign of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, have been rendered unable to support themselves by labour, shall be allowed the sum of twelve pounds each, in advance, for compensation of their claims since the conclusion of the war: The auditor of public accounts on application to him made by the said Richard Marshall and Robert Ferguson in person or by attorney, shall issue warrants for the same, payable out of the aggregate fund. | Richard Marshall and Robert Ferguson allowed certain sums of money for their present relief; | |
| SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Richard Marshall and Robert Ferguson shall be placed on the list of pensioners, and shall each of them have and receive during life the annual sum of twelve pounds. | And to be placed on the list of pensioners. | |
| CHAP. LXXVII. An act concerning William Courtney. (Passed the 14th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS William Courtney served as a soldier in the Virginia lien during the late war, and received at the action at James Town a wound, which has rendered him unable to support himself by labour. | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the auditor of public accounts, shall and he is hereby directed, on application to him made by the said William | William Courtney allowed a certain |
| Courtney in person or by attorney, to issue a warrant on the treasury for the sum of twelve pounds payable out of the contingent fund, for his present relief. | sum for his present relief; |
| SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said William Courtney shall be allowed the sum of twelve pounds per annum, for and during the remainder of his natural life. | And a pension during life. |
| CHAP. LXXVIII. An act granting a sum of money to William Shannon and others. (Passed the 28th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the auditor of public accounts shall issue certificates upon application to him made by the payees or their legal representatives, of those bills which have been drawn in the favour by William Shannon late quarter master general to the Illinois regiment on general George Rogers Clarke and on the treasurer of this Commonwealth which have been admitted in the said Shannon's account as settled by the executive, on receiving from the executive their directions so to do; and to the said William Shannon the sum of two thousand and twenty-six pounds six shillings and one penny farthing which appears to be due him by the account aforesaid. | Certificates to be issued to the payees of certain bills drawn
by William Shannon. And to said Shannon for the balance due to him. |
| SECT. 2. There shall be issued by the auditor in favour of James Maxwell, warrants for the sum of four hundred and thirty-four pounds sixteen shillings and four pence half-penny, for the balance due the estate of Daniel Maxwell deceased on a judgment obtained against Andrew Sprowl, whose estate was, during the late war, confiscated and sold, and the money arising therefrom paid into the public treasury. | Warrants to be issued to James Maxwell for a debt due from Andrew Sprowle; |
| SECT. 3. And be it further enacted, That the auditor of public accounts shall issue warrants in favour of Thomas Newton the executor of Robert Tucker deceased, for the amount of a bond given by Robert Carter Nicholas, treasurer to this Commonwealth, to the said Thomas Newton executor as aforesaid. | And to Thomas Newton for a sum of money due from the state, |
| SECT. 4. The warrants to be issued by virtue
of this act shall be charged on the aggregate fund. This act shall commence and be in force from
and after the passing thereof. |
Payable out of the aggregate fund. When this act commences. |
| CHAP. LXXIX. An act for restoring a sum of money to certain persons. (Passed the 29th of November, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS from a sentence of condemnation passed in the court of admiralty of this Commonwealth against the ship George, whereof Robert Scott was master, the said ship with her cargo were sold, and one moiety thereof amounting to the sum of six hundred and seventy-six pounds ten shillings and eleven pence paid into the public treasury; from which sentence an appeal was granted to the court of appeals, and by a decree of that court, the same was reversed and annulled, and the amount of such sales ordered to be restored. | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the treasurer of this Commonwealth and he is hereby authorized and required upon receipt of this act, to restore to such person or persons intitled to receive the same under the decree of the high court of appeals the moiety of the sales of the said ship George and her cargo so paid into the treasury, with interest thereon to be computed after the rate of five per centum per annum, from the time of such payment, retaining thereout the duty of three pounds six shillings and nine pence, as directed by the said decree. | A sum of money to be paid by the treasurer to the owners of the ship George. |
| CHAP. LXXX. An act for paying a sum of money to John Woodson Ellis. (Passed the 22d of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS on the eighteenth day of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four a lot of land in the city of Richmond, the property of John Woodson Ellis, was appropriated to the use of the public, for the purpose of thereon erecting the public buildings, and the same valued by a jury summoned and charged for that purpose, to the sum of one hundred and fifty-four pounds. | Preamble. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that the auditor of public accounts, on application to him made by the said John Woodson Ellis in person or by his attorney, shall issue a warrant or warrants, as well for the said principal sum of one hundred and fifty-four pounds, as for the interest thereon accruing after the rate of five per centum per annum from the said eighteenth day of August in the year aforesaid, payable out of the aggregate fund. | A sum of money to be paid to John Woodson Ellis. | |
| CHAP. LXXXI. | ||
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| (Passed the 10th of December, 1790.) | ||
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS from a sentence of condemnation passed in the court of admiralty of this Commonwealth against the brigantine Molly, whereof Robert Fairclaugh deceased was master, the said brigantine with her cargo were sold and one moiety thereof amounting to the sum of five hundred and fifty-seven pounds eight shillings and five pence farthing, paid into the public treasury, from which sentence an appeal was granted to the court of appeals, and by a decree of that court the | Preamble. |
| same was reversed and annulled and the amount of such sales ordered to be restored. | |
| SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this Commonwealth and he is hereby authorized and required upon receipt of this act, to restore to such person or persons intitled to receive the same under the decree of the high court of appeals, the moiety of the sales of the said brigantine Molly and her cargo so paid into the treasury, with interest thereon to be computed after the rate of five per centum per annum from the time of such payment, retaining thereout the duties of twenty four pounds eighteen shillings, and of three pounds twelve shillings and six pence as directed by the said decree. | A sum of money to be paid by the Treasurer to the owners of the brigantine Molly. |
| CHAP. LXXXII. An act for paying a sum of money to Reuben Compton. (Passed the 13th of December, 1790.) | |
| SECT. 1. WHEREAS Reuben Compton of the county of Halifax, by the burning of the Rocky Ridge warehouse, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, lost a hogshead of tobacco, which the commissioners appointed by law to ascertain the losses sustained by the said burning, when convened for that purpose, refused to allow for want of proof; And whereas full and sufficient proof of the loss of the said hogshead of tobacco by the said Reuben Compton hath been since adduced. | Preamble. |
| SECT. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the said Reuben Compton shall and he is hereby authorized to demand and receive from the public treasury, payment for the said hogshead of tobacco, calculating the weight thereof at one thousand pounds nett, and the price at the rate of thirty shillings per hundred. | A sum of money to be paid to Reuben Compton. |
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