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7. And on such causes and papers being delivered to the clerk A list of causes of the new district, as hereby directed, he shall proceed therein so removed to accordingly; and shall morcover, at least one month before the courthouse time appointed for the session of his court, post up a list of the doors. causes so transmitted to him, at the door of each courthouse in

his district.

be affixed at

8. This act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof. Commencement

Tuesday, November the 15th, 1796.

ESOLVED, That the executive do proceed to execute the act, entituled an act, authorising the executive to procure arms for the defence of the commonwealth," in the mode which they may think most consonant to the public interest. November the 19th, 1796-Agreed to by the senate.

CHAP XLIV.

An Act laying Taxes for the year, one thousand seven hundred and

ninety-seven,

[Passed January 22d, 1798.—Acts of 1797, ch. 1, pa. 1.]

in a

of this act.

to state tax due from individuals.

7. The commissioners of the tax shall hereafter, in their books Commissioners or lists of taxables, specify opposite to each person's name, column for that purpose, the amount of the tax owing by such person for the land, or other property therein charged to him.

8. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the Commencement passing thereof.

CHAP. XLV.

An Act to establish Arsenals* and a Manufactory of Arms.

1

BE

[Passed January 23d, 1798.-Acts of 1797, ch. 18, pa. 12.]

on and purchase E it enacted, That the executive be, and they are hereby Executive to fix situations for proper sites for, required to fix upon and purchase two proper

the erection of arsenals, in the counties of Prince Edward and & cause arsenals Orange, or Culpeper, in addition to that at the Point of Fork, and to be erected. to have such buildings erected for the preservation of arms, and such fortifications thrown up for the defence of the said arsenals,

as to them shall seem expedient.

ed and 20 men

2. And be it further enacted, That the executive do cause to be A lieutenant to enlisted, for a term not exceeding three years, as a guard for each be commissionarsenal as it is erected, twenty private men and two sergeants, and to be enlisted as commission one lieutenant, for the purposes of making each of the guards, &c. their said fortifications, guarding and keeping the arms in good order, pay and duty. which said men and officers shall receive the same pay and other allowances as continental troops are entitled to: Provided, That Proviso. the executive do only cause the said men to be enlisted, and commission the said officers, as they may become necessary from the supplies of arms by purchase or otherwise,

arms arsenals to

3. And be it further enacted, That each of the said three arsenals, What number of hereby established, shall be calculated to hold at least ten thousand be capable of complete stand of arms, with which quantity each is to be supplied holding; & how successively, at the discretion of the executive, one being finished supplied. and supplied, before the expense of erecting buildings and enlisting guards for another, shall be incurred.

*So much of this act as respects the erection of arsenals suspended-Sac post chap. 49, sect. 2, pa. 135.

Duty of lieute-
nants appointed
in pursuance of
this act.

Shall enter into
bond with secu-
rity, &c.
and

4. Each lieutenant shall, over and above the other duties of his office, inspect and direct the cleaning and well-keeping the arms, for which he shall receive the additional sum of one hundred dollars annually; shall give receipts for all arms delivered to him, and shall enter into bond with three sufficient securities, in a penalty equal to their value, payable to the governor for the time being, Make monthly for the use of the commonwealth, and conditioned as the executive returns of arms, shall devise, so as to secure the object of having the said arms at &c. all times forth-coming and in good order, and until the appointment of the commandant hereafter mentioned, it shall be the duty of each lieutenant to make monthly returns of all arms under hiş care, expressing their state, to the executive.

Executive to commission a major command

duty.

5. And be it further enacted, That so soon as fifteen thousand stand of arms shall be obtained, the executive are required and ant, his pay and empowered to appoint and commission one major commandant and superintendant of the said arsenals and guards, who shall receive the pay and other aliowances of a major in the infantry of the continental army, whose duty it shall be once in every month, and oftener if need be, to inspect the state of the said arsenals, and to make a return thereof monthly to the executive in such mode as they may direct.

Commissionshow holden.

A manufactory of arms near Richmond.

Executive to

procure accoutrements for cavalry.

To diposse of the public ord. nance herein mentioned.

Writ of ad quod

thereon.

6. The several officers hereby to be appointed, shall hold their commissions during pleasure.

7. And to insure a supply, Be it further enacted, That the executive be empowered to establish a manufactory of arms within the vicinity of Richmond, at such place, and upon such terms and conditions as to them shall seem expedient.

8. And be it further enacted, That the executive be, and they are hereby required, to procure six hundred pistols, holsters, swords, scabbards, and belts, to be distributed in the said several arsenals, as they are ready to receive them, for the equipment of cavalry.

9. And be it further enacted, That the executive shall be, and they are hereby authorised, to dispose of, or exchange, such of the ordnance of this commonwealth, as they may deem expedient, and in lieu thereof to procure brass field pieces of the size best suited to the military establishment of this commonwealth.

10. And be it further enacted, That in case the executive land cannot obtain a proper site for the said arsenals and manufactory, wanted for the upon such terms as they may deem reasonable, a writ of ad quod uses herein men- damnum shall, at their instance, be issued from the district court tioned may issue in certain cases. wherein the land so required for public use, shall lie, which shall Surveyor of the be executed thereupon by metes and bounds, which, and also the County to attend quantity shall be expressed in the inquest: the surveyor of the proceeding county shall attend the jury, to ascertain the bounds and quantity; of which said inquest the party interested shall have reasonable notice; and the said jury shall in their inquest, ascertain the daInquest to be re-mages which the proprietor of the said land shall sustain by the loss thereof, whereupon, and upon the payment of the said damages to the said party injured, the land so valued shall be forever thereafter vested in the commonwealth. The said inquest so to be made, shall be returned and recorded in the district court from which the writ of ad quod damnum shall issue. from whic

Duty of the ju

rors.

turned and re

corded.

No. IX.

11. And be it further enacted, That the executive shall, and Executive may they are hereby authorised and empowered, to issue such a pro- arms to officers issue public portion of the public arms and ammunition to the commanding of-o certain regificers of the regiments, within the limits of which the arsenals afore- ments, under said shall be erected, under such conditions and regulations, for such conditions as they approve. the security and preservation of the said arms, as they may deem

necessary.

12. This act shall commence and be in force from the passing Commencement thereof.

CHAP. XLVI.

An Act authorising the Governor of this Commonwealth to convey to the United States, certain Land on Old Point Comfort, for the purpose of Building a Light House.

1

[Passed January 2d, 1798.-Acts of 1797, ch. 19, pa. 13.]

on Old Point

light house.

E it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall and may Governor autho hereby fully authorised for and in behalf of this commonwealth, a piece of land by proper deeds and instruments in writing, under his hand and Comfort to the the seal of the commonwealth, to convey, transfer, assign and U. States for the make over to the United States, in congress assembled, for the purpose of builduse of the said United States, all interest in, and right and title to, ing thereon a as well as all the jurisdiction which this commonwealth posseses, over so much of the public lands, not exceeding two acres, situate, lying and being in the county of Elizabeth City, at a place commonly called Old Point Comfort, as shall be sufficient to erect a light house, subject to the terms and conditions following, that is to say: That a light house shall be erected upon the said land, and that all charges and expenses of building and rebuilding, when necessary, and keeping in good repair the said light house, together with the salaries, wages and hire of the person or persons appointed by the President of the United States for the superintendance and care of the same, and all the necessary supplies with which a light house ought to be furnished, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States,

in use.

2. If a light house shall not be erected within the space of seven Land to revert to the state in years, after the cession of the said two acres of land by this com, monwealth, to the United States, in congress assembled, or if at house is not ecase a light any time thereafter, the said light house shall be suffered to fall rected thereon, into decay, or be rendered useless as to the purposes for which it and continued. is to be erected, and so continue for the aforesaid period of seven years, then and in those cases, the property in the soil, and jurisdiction over the territory hereby directed to be vested in the United States, in congress assembled, shall revert to this commonwealth, and be considered as the property, and subject to the jurisdiction of the same, in like manner as if this act had never been made. Provided always, That nothing in this act contained, or in the Provise. deed of cession to be made in pursuance thereof, shall be costrued to deprive the citizens of this commonwealth of the privilege they now enjoy of hauling their seines on the shores of the land to be ceded in pursuance of this act.

Executive to cause a settlement of commissioner's ac

counts and offer

and cede the building &c to the U. States for

a marine hospi

tal,

Hospital to be sold if the Unit

CHAP. XLVII.

An Act making Provision for the Disposal of the Marine Hospital and the Exoneration of the Commssioners.

1

[Passed January 20th, 1798-Acts of 1797, ch. 22, pa. 16.]

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the governor and

council be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to cause the accounts of the commissioners appointed under the act, entituled, an act for establishing a marine hospital for the reception of sick and disabled seamen, to be adjusted; and so soon as the balance due by the commissioners to the contractor shall be ascertained, it shall be lawful for the governor to offer the marine hospital, together with its appurtenances, to the congress of the United States, to be applied to the benevolent purposes for which it was erected, at the sum which shall be found due from the commissioners to the contractor: And the governor is further authorised and empowered to cede to the United States, by deed, the lots and appurtenances aforesaid, on receiving from the commissioners of the marine hospital, or from any other source, satisfactory proof that the sum so ascertained to be due from the commissioners in consequence of their appointment, has been ac tually paid.

2. And be it further enacted, That in case the government of ed States refuse the United States shall refuse to receive the said hospital with its it on the terms appurtenances, on the terms beforementioned, then and in that herein tendered. case it shall be lawful for the governor to direct the commission

Commencement.

Commissioners of revenue allowed a copy. Commencement.

ers, or any three of them, to dispose of the said hospital, with the appurtenances, for the best price that can be obtained; and the money arising from such sale, to be applied in the first place to the payment of the sum which shall be found due from the commissi oners, and the balance shall be paid into the treasury, subject to the future direction of the general assembly.

3. This sct shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.

CHAP. XLVIII.

An Act, providing for the Printing of an Extra Number of the
Laws, and for other purposes.

[Passed January 25th, 1799.-Acts of 1798, ch. 5. pa. 7.]

2. Each of the commissioners of the revenue shall be hereafter furnished with a copy of the laws at the public expense.

3. This act shall commence and be in force from the passing thereof.

CHAP. XLXIX.

An Act, to amend the Act, authorising the Executive, to procure.
Arms for the defence of the Commonwealth.

[Passed January 18th, 1799.-Acts of 1798, ch. 12, pa. 10.]

Money appropri- 1 sisting contracts for arms, under the act, entituled "an

E it enacted by the General Assembly, That in case the sub

ated for the purchase of arms, may in case of

act, to authorise the executive to procure arms for the defence default in the of the commonwealth," are not complied with according to their contractor, be tenor, within the time allowed by the legislature, the executive applied by the be, and they are hereby required, to apply the money appropriated purchase of arms to the fulfilment of those contracts to the purchase of other arms, wherever the same can be had.

executive to the

elsewhere.

No. IX.

2. And whereas it may be thought necessary to distribute any Act authorising arms which may be procured, among the militia: Be it enacted, the erection of that so much of any law, as may require the executive to erect arsenals, susan arsenal or arsenals, shall be, and the same is hereby suspended until the next session of assembly.

CHAP. L.

An Act, to amend the Act, entituled an Act, to mend the several
Acts, for regulating Pilots, and ascertaining their Fees.
[Passed January 24th, 1799-Acts of 1798, ch. 21, pa. 14.]

1

pended.

E it enacted by the General Assembly, That the rate of pi- Rate of pilotage lotage from Cape Henry up the Potowmac river, as high from Cape Henof as the Eastern branch, shall be as follows: From the said Cape to ry to certain Smith's Point, on South Potowmac, coming from sea, twenty- Potomac riplaces up the five dollars, and for going out twenty dollars and eighty-three ver, and like cents; from Smith's Point to Coan or Yeocomico, sixty-two cents rates from the per foot; to Machadock, seventy-two cents per foot; to Upper said places to Machadock, one dollar per foot; to Nangomy, one dollar and the Capes. twenty-five cents per foot; to Boyd's Hole, one dollar and thirtyfive cents per foot; to Quantico, one dollar and forty-six cents per foot; to Occoquan, one dollar and sixty-one cents per foot; to Piscataway, one dollar and ninety-seven cents per foot; to Alexandria, two dollars and thirty-six cents per foot; and to Eastern branch, two dollars and fifty cents per foot; and the same fees by the foot back again from the places aforesaid to the Capes.

2. Every captain or commander of a vessel shall receive a branch pilot to conduct his vessel out to sea from the port of lading.

Masters of ves

sels shall receive a pilot to conduct vessel from

3. All and every act and acts, clauses and parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby ing! port repealed.

Repealing
clause

of lad

4. This act shall commence and be in force, from and after the Commencement first day of April next.

1

An Act to Increase the Reward for Killing Wolves.
[Passed January 28th, 1799.—Acts of 1798, ch. 34, pa. 17 ]

E it enacted by the General Assembly, That every person who Rewards allow shall kill or destroy any wolf above the age of six months, ed for killing in the counties of Rockbridge, Wythe, Montgomery, Monongalia, veral counties Randolph, Kanawha, and Augusta, shall receive a reward of two herein named. dollars and fifty cents; and for every wolf under the age of six months, to be adjudged by the justice before whom the scalp or scalps shall be brought, one dollar and twenty-five cents; that every person who shall kill or destroy any wolf above the age of six months, in the counties of Washington, Lee, Russell, Brooke and Pittsylvania, shall receive a reward of four dollars; and for every wolf under six months, two dollars; any person who shall kill or destroy any wolf above the age of six months, in the counfies of Bath, Hampshire, Franklin, and Pendleton, shall receive å reward of six dollars; and for every wolf under the age of six months, three dollars; and that every person who shall kill or destroy any wolf above the age of six months in the counties of Buckingham, Amherst, Hardy, Campbell, Frederick, Bedford,"