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THE

STATUTES AT LARGE

OF

VIRGINIA,

FROM OCTOBER SESSION 1792, TO DECEMBER SESSION 1806, INCLUSIVE,

IN THREE VOLUMES,

(NEW SERIES,)

BEING A CONTINUATION OF HENING.

VOL. III.

BY SAMUEL SHEPHERD.

RICHMOND:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL SHEPHERD.

1836.

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ACTS

PASSED AT A

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,

BEGUN AND Held at the capitol, in the CITY OF RICHMOND, ON
MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAy of decemBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND THREE.

CHAP. 1.-An ACT to amend and reduce into one the several acts of the gene-
ral assembly, for regulating the militia of this commonwealth.
(Passed January 28, 1804.)

Whereas a well regulated militia constitutes the great defence of Preamble.
a free people, and it is expedient to carry into effect the laws of the
congress of the United States, providing for the national defence,
by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States:

1. Be it therefore enacted, That the counties of Accomack, Brigades and divi-
Northampton, Princess Anne, Norfolk, and the Borough of Norfolk, sions formed.
shall compose one brigade; the counties of Nansemond, Isle of
Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex and Prince George, one bri-
gade; the counties of Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City,
Charles City, New Kent, Hanover, Henrico, and the cities of Rich-
mond and Williamsburg, one brigade; the counties of Gloucester,
Matthews, Middlesex, Essex, King William, King and Queen, Lan-
caster, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland, one brigade;
and the said brigades shall compose one division. That the coun-
ties of Loudoun and Fairfax shall compose one brigade; the coun-
ties of Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford and King George, one
brigade; the counties of Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Spotsylvania
and-Caroline, one brigade; the counties of Louisa, Goochland, Flu-
vanna, Albemarle and Amherst, one brigade; and the said brigades
shall compose one other division. The counties of Frederick,
Berkeley and Jefferson, shall compose one brigade; the counties of
Rockingham, Augusta and Shenandoah, one brigade; the counties
of Wythe, Montgomery and Monroe, one brigade; the counties of
Washington, Russell, Lee, Grayson and Tazewell, one brigade; the
counties of Rockbridge, Botetourt, Greenbrier, Bath, Kanawha and
Mason, one brigade; the counties of Hampshire, Hardy and Pen-
dleton, one brigade; the counties of Monongalia, Ohio, Brooke,
Harrison, Randolph and Wood, one brigade; and the said brigades

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