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construed to authorize the trustees of the town at the Sweet Springs to sell the lots whereon the court-house of the said county and the tavern of the said William Lewis are built.

CHAP. XLVI.

An act authorizing several lotteries, and the sale of certain lots in the town of Portsmouth.

(Passed the 20th of December, 1790.)

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That Lotteries au it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the Tran- thorised for the Transyl sylvania seminary, or a majority of them, to raise by one vania semior more lotteries, a sum not exceeding five hundred pounds, nary; for the purpose of erecting an academy.

SECT. 2. That it shall and may be lawful for the trus- For building a tees of the town of Warminster, or a majority of them, church in to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards building

to the said

a church in the vicinity of the said town; and that it and cutting shall and may be lawful for the said trustees, or a ma- certain roads jority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum town. not exceeding two hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards paying the expence of, as well as the damages incurred by, cutting a road from Irish creek gap, and one other from Moore's iron works, to the aforesaid town of Warminster.

Halifax;

SECT 3. That it shall and may be lawful for John For building a Coleman, Isaac Coles, Robert Wooding, George Car- church in rington, Michael Roberts, William Hamlet and Henry E. Coleman, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards building a church in the parish of Antrim and county of Halifax.

SECT. 4. That it shall and may be lawful for John S. for erecting an Wills, Benjamin Blunt, James Wilkinson, William Ur- academy in quhart, John Taylor, Francis Boykin, George Purdie, Southampton; James Wills and Samuel Kello, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding three hundred pounds, to

for erecting a paper-mill

near Staun

ton;

for building a church in

be by them applied towards erecting an academy in the county of Southampton, which shall be called by the name of Millfield Academy.

SECT. 5. That it shall be lawful for Alexander St. Clair, William Chambers, Robert Douthat, John Boys, James Lyle, junior, Robert Gratton, Anthony Mustoe, Robert Gamble and William Bowyer, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding three hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards defraying the expence of erecting a paper mill near the town of Staunton, for the use of Gideon Morgan and Peter Burkhart.

SECT. 6. That it shall be lawful for William Lowry, Robert McCrea, John Murray, Andrew Jameison, JonaAlexandria; than Swift, James Irwin, Jesse Taylor, John Dundas, William Hunter, junior, Josiah Watson, Robert Mease and Thomas Williams, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding five hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards completing the building of a church in the town of Alexandria, for the use of the members of the Presbyterian society.

for the benefit

of Nathaniel Twining;

tersburg;

SECT. 7. That it shall be lawful for John Marshall, John Hoomes, John Harvie, John Pendleton, junior, Alexander Montgomery, John Groves and John Brown, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding two thousand pounds, to be by them paid to Nathaniel Twining.

for building a SECT. 8. That it shall be lawful for Peterson Goodchurch in Pe- wyn, Robert Bolling, junior, James Campbell, John Grammer, Thomas Griffin Peachy, John Shore and Samuel Davis, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries a sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty pounds, to be by them applied towards paying the expence of building a church in the town of Petersburg, for the use of the members of the Protestant Episcopal church.

town;

for completSECT. 9. That it shall and may be lawful for John ing a church Kearsley, John Mark, John Morrow, William Buckles and in Shephard's Lawrence Vandevier, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds, to be by them applied towards completing the building of a church in Shephard's town in the county of Berkley, for the use of the members of the Presbyterian society.

SECT. 10. That it shall be lawful for William Brown, for paving the Richard Conway, John Potts, junior, Josiah Watson, streets of Alexandria ; Olney Winsor, Jonathan Swift and William Hodgson, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding five thousand pounds, to be by them applied towards paying the expences of paving the streets in the town of Alexandria.

SECT. 11. That it shall be lawful for Francis Walker, for cutting a William Clark, Nicholas Lewis, John Breckenridge, road from Rockfish Gap, George Divers, William Douglas Meriwether, Charles to Scott's and Irving and Isaac Davis, gentlemen trustees, or a majority Nicholas's of them, to raise by lottery, a sum not exceeding four landings; hundred pounds, to be by them applied towards paying the expence of, as well as the damages incurred by, cutting a road from Rockfish Gap to Nicholas's and Scott's landing on Fluvanna river, in the county of Albemarle.

overthe marsh

be sold for the

SECT. 12. And that it shall be lawful for John Kearnes, and for erectWills Cowper, Willis Wilson, Samuel Davis, John Ne- ing a bridge vison, Richard Blow, Josiah Butts, James Young, James between GosB. Nickolls and John Cowper, junior, gentlemen trus- port and tees, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more lot- Portsmouth ; teries, a sum not exceeding four hundred pounds, and that they or a majority of them shall sell the lots lying on the Certain lots in back part of the town of Portsmouth, formerly called Gos- Portsmouth to port, the property of this Commonwealth, for the best same purpose. price that can be had, having previously advertised the time and place of such sale for four weeks in the Virginia Gazette, and convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers in fee; the money arising from the sales of the said lots, as well as the said lottery, after defraying the expences thereof, shall be applied by the said trustees towards erecting a bridge over the creek, and raising a solid causey over the marsh dividing that part of the town known by the name of Gosport from the other part, and for cutting a road from the said bridge to Deep creek.

ney to be rais

SECT. 13. And be it further enacted, That it shall be A sum of molawful for Anthony Singleton, Alexander Montgomery, ed by a lottery Charles Hopkins, Alexander Buchanan, John Groves, for the AmicaGeorge Weir and Joseph Higbee, gentlemen trustees, or ble Society. a majority of them, to raise by one or more lotteries, a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds, to be by them placed in the funds of the Amicable Society of Richmond, subject to the purposes of that institution.

Preamble.

Trustees appointed;

Lots when and

CHAP. XLVII.

An act to amend the act which establishes the town of Hopewell in the county of Bourbon, and for altering the name of the said town.

(Passed the 1st of December, 1790.)

SECT. 1. WHEREAS by an act of Assembly passed at the last session, intitled "An act to establish a town in each of the counties of Madison, Albemarle and Bourbon," two hundred and fifty acres of land at the courthouse of the said county of Bourbon, as laid off into lots and streets by a certain Lawrence Sprotsman, the then supposed proprietor thereof, was established a town by the name of Hopewell, of which Notley Conn, Charles Smith, jun. John Edwards, James Garrard, Edward Waller, Thomas West, James Lanier, James Little and James Duncan, gentlemen, were constituted trustees; And whereas, since the passing the said act many doubts have arisen who is the real proprietor of the said two hundred and fifty acres of land, and in consequence thereof the present holders of many of the said lots are disquieted, and the sale of the remainder thereof thereby prevented.

SECT. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the passing of this act the said two hundred and fifty acres of land as laid off into lots and streets, shall be and are hereby vested in the said Notley Conn, Charles Smith, jan. John Edwards, James Garrard, Edward Waller, Thomas West, James Lanier, James Little and James Duncan, gentlemen trustees, or a majority of them.

SECT. 3. The said trustees or a majority of them shall how to be sold; proceed to sell such of the said lots which now remain unsold at public auction for the best price that can be had, the time and place of which sale to be previously advertised two months in the Kentuckey Gazette, and convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers their heirs and assigns; subject however to the same rules, orders and conditions as the said lots are subjected to by the said recited act.

Account of

SECT. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority the sales to be aforesaid, That the said trustees shall as soon as the said

therefrom

sale shall be completed, return an account thereof to the returned to court of the said county of Bourbon, to be there record- Bourbon ed, and the money arising from such sale shall be re- county court. tained by them for the use and benefit of the person or persons in whom the title to the said two hundred and Money arising fifty acres of land shall hereafter be established, to be how to be appaid to such person or persons or their legal representatives plied; accordingly. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That in case the title of the said two hundred and fifty acres of land shall hereafter be established in any other person or persons than in the said Lawrence Sprotsman, the said trustees, shall in such case convey such of the lots as were sold by him to the purchasers thereof in fee simple, and the purchasers or holders of such lots shall be subject only to account with the real proprietor thereof, for the value of the same when originally purchased as unimproved lots.

tered to Paris,

SECT. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and Name of after the passing of this act the name of the said town Hopewell alshall be altered, and from thenceforth the same shall be established by the name of Paris; any law to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

CHAP. XLVIII.

An act for appropriating a farther sum of money for the Capitol.

(Passed the 28th of December, 1790.)

ated for

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That A sum of moout of any money in the treasury the sum of fifteen hun- ney appropridred and sixty-two pounds, shall be appropriated and completing applied by the directors of public buildings to the pay- certain parts ment of any balances due on account of work done to of the Capitol; the Capitol, and also for the completion of the several unfinished parts thereof.

SECT. 2. The auditor of public accounts shall, upon orders from the executive, issue his warrants to the said directors of the public buildings for the said sum of money, as the same shall become necessary.

VOL. XIII.-Z

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