ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA, AT ITS THIRD SESSION COMMENCING JANUARY 17, 1865. WHEELING. 1865. STANFORD LIBRARY ACTS. CHAP. 1.-An ACT to extend the Time allowed the Civil Officers of of the counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan and Wayne, in which to Qualify and give Bond. Passed January 17, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: All the county officers who were elected on the twenty-seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, in and for the counties of Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan and Wayne, shall be allowed until Allowed till the twenty-fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to qualify and execute their official bonds. March 25, 1865. CHAP. 2.-An ACT to change the County Seat of Jefferson county from Charlestown to Shepherdstown. Passed January 26, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : Time removal 1. The county seat of Jefferson county shall cease to be at Charlestown, in said county, on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and takes place. sixty-five. 2. The county seat of Jefferson county shall be located at the town of Shepherdstown, in said county, until removed therefrom by a vote of the people of said county. CHAP. 3.—An An ACT to provide for the Payment of the Annual Passed January 26, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : $1,500 appro The sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the annual salary of the state superintendent of free priated. schools, to be paid according io the thirty-fourth section of an "act How paid. providing for the establishment of a system of free schools," passed December tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. 4 What prisoners. Prisoners-Appropriations-Eighth Circuit. [1865. CHAP. 4.-An ACT authorizing the Governor to surrender certain Passed January 26, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: The governor of this state is authorized to deliver to the authorities of the United States government such state prisoners as they may wish to exchange for officers or privates of West Virginia regiments, who are prisoners in the hands of the rebels, if, in his opinion, such state prisoners have been in any way connected with the rebel army. $86,000 appro. CHAP. 5.-An ACT to pay State Scouts. Passed January 27, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury eighty-six thousand dollars, to be placed at the disposal of the governor, for the payment of state scouts. $29,264 08 appropriated. Banks from which drawn. For what purpose. CHAP. 6.—An ACT making an appropriation for the Payment of Passed January 30, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: Twenty-nine thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and eight cents are hereby appropriated for the payment of that amount drawn by the executive of this state from the North Western Bank of Virginia and the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling, and expended by him for the payment of the military companies organized for the protection of the border counties of the state, for the hospital for the insane at Weston, and for other purposes. Raleigh. Wyoming. Logan. CHAP. 7.-An ACT to change the times of holding the Courts in the Passed January 30, 1865. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: 1. The commencement of the terms of the circuit courts in the several counties of the eighth judicial circuit shall hereafter be as follows: For the county of Raleigh on the first day of March, May, September and November. For the county of Wyoming on the seventh day of March, May, September and November. For the county of Logan on the eleventh day of March, May, September and November. For the county of Boone on the eighteenth day of March, May, Sep- Boone. tember and November. For the county of Cabell on the twenty-fourth day of March, May, Cabell. September and November. And for the county of Wayne on the fifteenth day of April, June, Wayne. October and December. 2. Sub-division VIII, of section three, of the act passed July ninth, Law repealed. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "an act to fix the terms of the several courts," is hereby repealed. 5 CHAP. 8.-An ACT to legalize the acts of John B. Baumgardner, Collector of the Revenue of Cabell county, and his Deputies, in the collection of said revenue, and to authorize the same to be pleaded in bar of certain suits therein named. Passed January 31, 1865. Whereas, John B. Baumgardner, of the county of Cabell, was ap- Preamble. pointed by the auditor collector of the revenue of the said county for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-one and eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and, whereas, the said Baumgardner executed a bond, with security, as such collector, which bond was approved by said auditor; and, whereas, after the approval of the said bond the said Baumgardner and his deputies collected a large portion of the revenue of the said county for the years aforesaid, which said Baumgardner has paid into the treasury; and, whereas, there is an error in said bond, by reason of which the same has been adjudged insufficient by the circuit court for Cabell county; therefore, Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : The collection of the revenue of the said county of Cabell, for the Official acts legalized. years eighteen hundred and sixty-one and eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, by the said John B. Baumgardner, collector as aforesaid, and his deputies in said office, and any and all acts done by them, or either of them, in or about the collection of said revenue, or any part thereof, are hereby legalized and made as valid and binding, to all intents and purposes, as if the said John B. Baumgardner had given his bond and security as such collector, in the manner and form required by law. And the said John B. Baumgardner and his said deputies, and any person or persons claiming title to property sold by them, or either of them, for the payment of any part of said revenue, may plead this act in bar of any suit now pending, or which may be hereafter brought against them, or either of them, for any cause whatever, growing out of the collection of said revenue. Authority to plead this act in bar of suits. |