mile for travelling to and from the place appointed for that purpose, befides ferriages, to be paid in the fame manner as the electors who are to vote for a : prefident of the United States are paid.

Preamble.

Rates increased.

Ra'es on American bottoms.

From Hampton road to fear

Allowance for expofures to contagion.

For detention.

Maryland pilots.

When the fees fhall be paid.

Fines increased.

Repealing clause.

Who fhall pay the pilot

age.

CHAP. CCLXXVII.

An Act to increase the rates of pilotage at certain places.

[Paffed the 21st of January, 1801.]

Wtain cafes, been found

WHEREAS the rates of pilotage heretofore allowed by law, have in cer tain cafes, been found inadequate to the fervices performed: for reme

dy whereof,

I. BE it enacted by the General Affembly, That the rate of pilotage, at prefent allowed by law on all foreign bottoms coming from fea to any of the harbours or ports of delivery within this Commonwealth, fhall be increased in the proportion of one-fourth.

II. AND be it further enacted, That the pilots fhall be entitled to receive hereafter nine pence per foot, in addition to the pilotage at prefent allowed by law, on all American bottoms, and two dollars in addition to the rates now allowed on all American vessels coming in, from fea to the first port.

III. AND be it further enacted, That the rate of pilotage from Hampton road to fea, shall hereafter be feven dollars and an half, and no more.

IV. AND be it further enacted, That in every cafe hereafter, when a pilot fhall be decoyed on board a veffel, having on board any contagious disease, and thereby be compelled to remain on board and perform quarantine, fuch pilot fhall be allowed and paid two dollars per day for every day of fuch detention: and moreover, in every cafe where a pilot boat fhall be employed in performing the orders, whereby the pilot is enjoined to give notice of contagion of board any veffel to the health officer, the compenfation of five dollars which is allowed in and by the third fection of the act paffed in the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five, upon the said subject, shall be, and is hereby increased one-fourth.

V. AND be it further enacted, That in all cafes hereafter, when a vessel outward bound shall be laden and anchored in Hampton road, and the captain shall detain the veffel and pilot after a fair wind offers for going out to fea, fuch pilot shall then be allowed and paid ten shillings per day, during fuch detention of veffel and pilot: Provided always, that the fame shall not extend to veffels falling down into Hampton Road, and not intending to proceed immediately to fea; but in every fuch cafe, the captain may difcharge the pilot.

VI. AND be it further enacted, That the pilots refiding in the state of Maryland may hereafter apply to the examiners appointed under the authority of this commonwealth, and on obtaining a branch, may exercise such branch in like manner as the pilots of Virginia, and shall receive fimilar fees: Provided always, that this privilege shall not be enjoyed until the state of Maryland shall have paffed a fimilar law in favor of the pilots of Virginia. No negro or mulatto shall after the paffing of this law, obtain a branch as a pilot: Provided however, that this prohibition shall not extend to, or affect any fuch perfons now having a branch.

VII. THE fees allowed by law for piloting a veffel into this commonwealth, shall only be paid when a pilot has boarded the veffel without the capes of Virginia, or oppofite to them. If the veffel shall be boarded by the pilot within the capes, then the pilot shall demand and receive only one half of the fees before specified into Hampton road; the fees for pilotage up the rivers, as heretofore, with the additional rates allowed by this act.

VIII. THE fines and penalties impofed upon pilots by the act, intituled, "An act to reduce into one the feveral acts for regulating pilots, and af certaining their fees," fhall be, and are hereby increafed one-half refpectively.

IX. SO much of the last recited act as permits pilots to depofit their accounts with the collector, and authorifes him to refufe a clearance to the veffel fo piloted, until the payment of the account, shall be, and hereby is repealed.

X. THE confignee or fupercargo of every veff:l not owned by a citizen

refiding in this ftate, fhall be liable for the pilotage, if it be not paid by the master.

XI. ALL boats on the fea fhore fhall hereafter have their names marked Ebats, how markeds four feet below the head of the forefail..

XII. ALL and every act and parts of acts, coming within the purview of Repealing clause. this act, fhall be, and are hereby repealed.

XIII. THIS act fhall commence and be in force, from the first day of Enacting claufe March next.

I.

B

CHAP. CCLXXVIII.

An Act concerning the Manufacture of Tobacco.

[Paffed the 20th of January, 1801.]

time Penalty for Aemming of

E it enacted by the General Affembly, That no person shall at any after the laft day of February next, ftem or manufacture any tobacco, without first having obtained a licence for that purpose, in the manner prefcribed by this act and every person who fhall prefume to ftem or manufacture tobacco, without fuch licence, fhall forfeit and pay fifteen dollars for every fifty pounds of tobacco fo by him or her stemmed or manufactured, to be recovered by an action on the cafe, in the name of the deputy attorney, of the county or corporation where the offence fhall be committed; one-half of which fine fhall go to the informer, and the other half shall be applied towards leffening the county or corporation levy.

manufacturing tobacco without license,

II. EVERY perfon intending to ftem or manufacture tobacco, may apply Manner in which a lifor a licence to the court of the county or corporation where he refides, and cenfe is to be obtained, where such stemmery or manufactory is intended to be carried on and the faid courts are hereby authorised to grant fuch licence, upon fatisfactory evidence being produced to them that the perfon applying is a man of honesty, probity and good demeanor; but no licence fhall be granted for a longer term than one year.

III. NO stemmer or manufacturer shall stem or manufacture, or fuffer to be ftemmed or manufactured, any tobacco but such as fhall have been infpected and passed at some public infpection in this Commonwealth; and every ftemmer or manufacturer who shall stem or manufacture, or fuffer to be ftemmed or manufactured, any tobacco which fhall not have been infpected and paffed in manner aforefaid, fhall forfeit and pay fifteen dollars for every fifty pounds of tobacco by him ftemmed or manufactured, or fuffered to be ftemmed or manufactured.

IV. EVERY ftemmer or manufacturer who fhall buy or receive any tobacco from any negro, mulatto or Indian, (bond or free) fhall forfeit and pay five times the value of the tobacco fo bought or received, and fhall moreover be liable to be prosecuted as a receiver of stolen goods, provided the same be stolen tobacco.

V. CORPORATION courts fhall have the exclufive right of granting Hcences to ftem or manufacture tobacco within the limits of their respective corporations.

VI. EVERY perfon to whom a licence fhall be granted to ftem or manufacture tobacco, fhall in open court, and at the fame at which licence

Tobacco first to be in

fpected and passed,

Penalty for buying tobacco from any negro.

is granted, enter into bond with two fufficient fureties, in the penalty of two Bond and fecurity to be thousand dollars, payable to the governor and his fucceffors, for the ufe of the given. Commonwealth, with a condition that he will not export, or fuffer to be exported, either by land or water, any tobacco received by him for the purpose of stemming or manufacturing, until the fame has been ftemmed or manufactured, that he will not ftem or manufacture, or fuffer to be stemmed or manufactured, any tobacco, but fuch as fhall have been infpected and paffed, at fome public inspection in this commonwealth: and that he will not buy or receive any tobacco from any negro, mulatto or Indian, bond or free.

VII. AND upon every breach of the condition of such bond, an action of debt may be inftituted against all the obligors in the faid bond, or againft the furvivor or furvivors of them, or against the legal reprefentatives of the deceafed obligor or obligors, and judgment fhall be rendered thereon: And the faid bond fhall not become void on the first recovery, but may be put in fuit and profecuted from time to time, until the whole penaky be recovered.

Ece

How fuits may be

brought in cafe of breach of this ac, and judg ment recovered.

Duty of infpe&tors in certain cafes.

Exception

Ena&ing claufe.

And if in any fuch action brought against the principal obligor, or against him and one or both of his fureties, judgment fhall be recovered, fuch judgment fhall be a complete revocation of his licence, and he fhall, at no time thereafter, be capable of obtaining another licence to ftem or manufacture to bacco.

VIII. THE infpectors of the feveral warehouses within this commonwealth fhall deliver any infpected tobacco to any perfon who fhall duly demand the fame, by delivery of the notes, or otherwife, for the purpcfe of manufacturing it, and grant him a manifeft therefor, upon his paying the ufual duties, and lodging with the inspector a certificate from the clerk of fome county or corporation court of his having obtained a licence to stem or manufacture tobacco in the manner prefcribed by this act.

IX. NOTHING herein contained shall be fo conftrued as to prevent planters or farmers in country places from ftemming or manufacturing tobacco the produce of their own farms or plantations; nor fhall this act extend to any county weftward of the blue ridge, nor to any county in which there is no infpection of tobacco.

X. THIS act fhall commence and be in force, from and after the laft day of February next.

Manner of conveying criminals to the Peni

tentiary prefcribed, and sheriffs authorised to imprefs.

Sheriffs and guards exempted from arrest.

Travelling expenfes.

Prov...

CHAP. CCLXXIX.

An Act, for Paying the Expenfes of removing Criminals from the Diftri& Jails to the Penitentiary Houfe, and for other Purposes.

I.

[Paffed the 21st of January, 1801.]

E it enated by the General Affembly, That whenfoever any perfon, cr

B perfons, diftrict court undergo

ment in the jail and Penitentiary Houfe, it fhall be lawful for a judge of such court, or any two juftices of the peace, of the county wherein the faid court was held, by warrant under his or their hands and feals, to empower the theriff charged with the conveyance of fuch prifoner, or prifoners, in all counties and places through which he fhall pafs with him or them, to imprefs, upon the best terms that the nature of the cafe will admit of, fuch and fo many men, horses, and boats, as fhall be neceffary for the fafe conveyance of the faid prifoner, or prifoners, to the faid jail and Penitentiary Houfe; which warrant the theriff is hereby required to execute, and to his commands in virtue thereof, all perfons are to pay due obedience.

II. THE heriff and guard attending any prifoner, or prifoners, by virtue of a warrant, as aforesaid, thall be privileged from arrests in all cafes, except treafon, felony, and breaches of the peace, during the time that they are employed in conveying fuch prifoner, or prifoners, to the faid jail and Penitentiary House, and in returning therefrom, allowing one day for every twenty miles from their places of abode; and fhall be authorised to have and receive each one dollar and four cents for every day they fhall be fo employed, and four cents per mile for travelling to the faid jail and Penitentiary, and the fame for returning, besides ferriages; and fuch theriff fhall alfo be allowed all neceflary expenfes incurred by him, as well for horfes and boats impreffed for the purposes aforefaid, as for the fupport of the prifoner, or prifoners, during the time of

their removal.

III. IN cafe any horfe, or horfes, fhould be impreffed by a fheriff, either for himself, or any of the guard, all charges, on account thereof, fhall be deducted out of the pay of the perfon ufing fuch horfe, or horfes, and the auditor of public accounts is required to iffue his warrants on the treafurer for any mo ney allowed by this act.

IV. PROVIDED however, That before the sheriff, attending any prifoner, fhall be entitled to a warrant or warrants, under this act, he thall produce to the faid auditor a receipt from the keeper of the faid jail and Penitentiary, for the prifoner, or prifoners, which he was required to convey, and make oath, that the number of men, boats, and horfes, impreffed by him, in removing fuch prifoner, or prifcners, and other expenfes thereby incurred, were in his opinion abfolutely neceffary. And any perfon impreffed as a guard, by virtue of this act, before he hall receive a warrant for the fum to which he is entitled, fhall make oath as to the number of days he was em ployed, the diftance he travelled, and the ferriages paid, or to be paid by him.