Taxes payable by the clerks in Ken

SECT. 5. The taxes payable by the clerks of the said district and hereafter to become due, shall be only distuckey, how chargeable by those articles which are receivable for the dischargeable; like taxes from the clerks of the other part of this Commonwealth.

Taxes upon property, how dischargeable.

Certificates

paid to the re

ceiver, how to be disposed of;

List of them to be admitted by the au

ditor when

settling with the receiver.

Certain commissioners to

settle the accounts between the Commonwealth and

Walker Daniel's representatives.

Duty of receiver respecting the salaries of of ficers of civil government.

SECT. 6. The taxes arising upon property in the said district, shall be discharged by the payment of such ar ticles as are or shall be admissible by the revenue law of this state, and also by the payment of any certificates, which have issued for the expences attending any Indian expeditions since the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.

SECT. 7. And whereas there would be a considerable risk unnecessarily incurred by transmitting to the auditors of public accounts, the certificates which have been or may be paid to the said receiver, Be it further enacted, that the judges of the supreme court of the said district or any two of them, shall at each session, examine the accounts of the said receiver, and burn the certificates he shall have received, and certify under their hands, a list of the certificates so burned, specifying the sum for which each certificate was given, its date and to whom it was issued, which list so certified shall be admitted by the auditor of public accounts, in settling the accounts of the said receiver in lieu of the certificates themselves.

SECT. 8. And whereas it has been represented to the General Assembly, that considerable arrears are due to the estate of Walker Daniel, late attorney general fort he district of Kentuckey, for his salary, and that no person is authorised to settle his accounts in behalf of the Commonwealth concerning the same, Be it enacted, that the judges of the supreme court of the district, shall appoint commissioners to settle the said accounts, and certify to the receiver the balance due to the estate of the said Walker Daniel, on account of his salary as aforesaid, who is directed to pay the same in like manner as other officers of the said court.

SECT. 9. The receiver shall only certify the arrears of salaries due to the officers of civil government within the said district, when he shall be required by such officer so to do; and where any such certificate has been or shall be given, the same may be discharged by the receiver if it shall be presented to him unsatisfied,

sions of;

SECT. 10. The supreme court for the district of Ken- Supreme tuckey shall henceforth hold annually three sessions only, court, sesto commence on the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, and the first Monday in October in each year, and each term to continue twenty-four juridical days, unless the business depending before them, be sooner determined.

tain counties,

held.

SECT. 11. And that the terms for holding the court of Quarterly quarter sessions in the counties of Fayette, Bourbon, and courts of cerMadison, which are now held in the month of October, when to be shall in future be held in the month of November. SECT. 12. And it shall be lawful for the supreme Power of the court of the said district, or the court of any county withsupreme and in the same in which any person died, whose will has county courts been or shall be hereafter recorded in the general or any district court in this Commonwealth, or in the court of any county not within the said district, to qualify the ministrations executors, or to grant certificates for obtaining letters of in certain administration, upon an attested copy being produced to them of any such will, and a certificate that the same has been duly proven and recorded in any such court.

in qualifying executors and granting ad

cases.

SECT. 13. And be it further enacted, That the trea- Treasurer to surer shall immediately transmit an attested copy of the send copy of books of the commissioners who were appointed to settle the accounts the expence of two expeditions carried on from the Ken- Indian expeof expences of tückey district in the year one thousand seven hundred ditions, to the and eighty-six to the receiver for the district of Ken- receiver, tuckey.

CHAP. LI.

An act for altering the court days and Quarter
Sessions of certain counties.

(Passed the 17th of December, 1789.)

tered in the

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That from Days of holdand after the first day of April next, the court for the ing courts alcounty of Norfolk shall be held on the third Monday in county of Norevery month, instead of the third Thursday. The court folk, for the town of Petersburg shall be held on the first the town of Monday in every month, instead of the first Wednesday. the borough Petersburg, The court for the borough of Norfolk on the fourth Mon- of Norfolk,

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the counties

of Isle of Wight,

day in every month, instead of the day heretofore appointed by law. The court of the county of Isle of Wight, shall be held on the first Monday in every month, instead of the first Thursday; and that the court for the county and Princessof Princess-Anne shall be held on the first Monday in Anne, every month, instead of the second Thursday. That a Courts of quarter ses- court of quarter sessions for the said borough of Norfolk, sions when to and for each of the counties of Norfolk, Princess-Anne, Northampton, Nansemond, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Fairrough of Nor- fax and Loudoun, shall be held in the month of June anfolk, the coun- nually, instead of the month of May; any law to the confolk, Princess- trary hereof notwithstanding.

be held.

for the bo

ties of Nor

Anne, North

ampton, Nan

semond, Staf

ford, Spotsyl

vania, Fairfax

and Loudoun.

Half an acre

purchased and annexed to Rocket's warehouse;

CHAP. LII.

An act for annexing half an acre of land to the land already appropriated for erecting Rockett's warehouse.

(Passed the 4th of December, 1789.)

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall of land to be be lawful for the justices of the county court of Henrico, and they are hereby required on or before the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, to value half an acre of land, the property of Samuel Couch, adjoining the acre whereon Rockett's warehouse is erected, and to pay or tender to the said Samuel Couch the value thereof, which shall be repaid to the said justices by the public: and from thenceforth the justices of the county for the time being shall be seized in fee of the said land, in trust, and for the use of the public, during the time the said place shall be made use of for a public

Value to be paid to the proprietor by Henrico

county, and

repaid by the public.

warehouse.

CHAP. LIII.

An act to remove the court of the county of Norfolk, without the borough of Norfolk.

(Passed the 19th of November, 1789.)

held in the

same,

SECT. 1. WHEREAS it hath been represented to the Preamble. present General Assembly, That it will be greatly for the ease and relief of the inhabitants of the county of Norfolk, to remove the court of the said county without the borough of Norfolk, Be it therefore enacted, that from Court of Norand after the first day of December next, courts for the folk county no said county of Norfolk shall not be holden within the li- longer to be mits of the borough of Norfolk; and that the justices of borough of the said county shall meet at the house of Mrs. Shafer's Norfolk; at Powder point, in the parish of St. Brides, on the first Justices to fix court day, after the time aforesaid, and then and there on a place for holding the fix upon such place for holding courts in the said county without the borough of Norfolk, as they may judge most proper and convenient, and thenceforth proceed to erect the necessary public buildings at such place, and until such buildings be completed, to appoint any place for holding courts as they shall think fit. Provided always, When a majothat the appointment of a place for holding courts and rity is present. erecting the necessary public buildings thereon, shall not be made unless a majority of the justices of the said county be present: where such majority shall have been prevented from attending by bad weather, or their being at the time out of the county, in such cases the appointment shall be postponed until some court day, when a majority shall be present.

to be sold;

SECT. 2. The said, court shall at their first session to The present be held at the house of Mrs. Shafer's, appoint commis- court-house sioners, who, or a majority of them, after being sworn, faithfully and impartially to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to sell the lot of ground within the borough of Norfolk, on which the court-house is now erected, on such terms as the court of the said county shall direct and prescribe, and convey the same

to the purchaser or purchasers in fee. That the com- Purchase momissioners shall apportion the money arising from the ney, how to be sales of the said lot, between the inhabitants of the coun- applied. ty and those of the borough, according to the number of

No tax to be laid by the court of Nor

the inhabi

tithables they respectively had at the time of levying the expence of building the said court-house, and pay the proportion due to the said borough, to the chamberlain of the corporation, and that which may be due to the county, the said commissioners shall apply towards defraying the expence of erecting the court-house and other public buildings, as well as for the purchase of a lot of ground for fixing the same thereon, and the surplus, if any, shall be applied under the direction of the said court, to the establishment of free schools.

SECT. 3. And whereas it is doubted whether the justices of the said county of Norfolk, can of right assess the folk county on tithable persons within the said borough, for removing such doubts in future, Be it further enacted, that it shall tants of the not be lawful for the court of the said county of Norfolk borough; Justices of the to impose any tax whatsoever on the inhabitants of the county resid. said borough of Norfolk; nor shall any justice of the ing in the bo- county, residing within the said borough, vote in any mearough not to sure tending to assess the inhabitants of the said county vote when the inhabitants of without the said borough.

Poor-house

and lands to be sold;

Purchase mo

ney, how to be applied.

CHAP. LIV.

An act for selling certain lands in the county of
Princess-Anne.

(Passed the 12th of November, 1789.)

SECT. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the overseers of the poor in the county of Princess-Anne, or a majority of them shall, and they are hereby empowered to sell, upon such terms as they may think best, the land and houses formerly set apart for the reception and accommodation of the poor in the said county, and convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers in fee.

SECT. 2. The money arising from the sale of the said land, shall be applied by the overseers of the poor towards lessening the poor-rates of the said county.