the faid matter, shall have fuit, as well for the Commonwealth as for himself, and the third part of the amercement. I. ANY perfon hereafter to be elected to ferve in the General Affembly, Members of General who fhall directly or indirectly give or agree to give to any Elector or pre- Affembly bribing electended Elector, money, meat, drink, or other reward, in order to be elected, tors to be expelled, and or for having been elected for any County, City, or Borough, or for any Dif- ineligible for three years. trict, fhall be expelled, and be difabled from being elected a Member to either Houfe of the General Affembly, during the term of three years. (a) III. ANY candidate or other perfon in his behalf, who fhall directly or indirectly give or agree to give any Elector or pretended Elector, money, meat, drink, or other reward, in order to be elected, or for having been elected a Representative of this Commonwealth in Congrefs, fhall forfeit and pay fifteen hundred dollars, for each offence, to be recovered with cofts, by action of debt, to the ufe of any perfon who will fue for the fame. (b) Penalty for bribing electors of Reprefenta. tives in Congrefs. IV. ALL and every Act and Acts, claufes and part of Acts, containing Repealing clause, any thing within the purview of this Act, fhall be, and the fame are hereby Provifo. repealed. Provided, That any act of bribery or extortion committed or done before the commencement of this Act, may be prosecuted in the fame manner as if this Act had never been made. V. THIS A&t fhall commence and be in force, from and after the paffing Commencement of this thereof. act, CHAP. LX. An Act against buying and felling of Offices. [Paffed the 19th of October, 1792.1] DE it declared and enacted by the General Affembly, That if any perfon or perfons shall bargain or fell any office or offices, or deputation of any office or offices, or any part or parcel of any of them, or receive or take any money, fee or reward, or any other profit directly or indirectly, or take any promife, agreement, covenant, bond, or any affurance to receive or have any money, fee or reward, or other profit directly or indirectly, for any office or offices, or for the deputation of any office or offices, or any part of any of them, or for a vote in appointing to any office or offices, or the deputation of any office or offices, to the intent that any perfon fhould have, exercife, or enjoy any office or offices, or deputation of any office or offices, or any part or parcel of them, which fhall in any wife touch or concern the adminiftration of the Executive Government, or the administration or execution of juftice, or the receipt or payment of the public Revenue, or which fhall concern or touch any clerkship in a Court of Record, all and every person or perfons fo offending, thall be incapable of appointing or voting for the appointment to any fuch office, and shall be adjudged a difabled perfon in Law, to all intents and purposes, to have, occupy, or enjoy the office in virtue of which he holds, or fhall hold the right of appointing or voting for the appointment to fuch office, and fhall moreover be amerced and imprisoned at the discretion of a Jury; and if a Member of either House of Affembly, he fhall moreover be expelled from the fame, and forever after disabled from being elected a Member of the General Affenbly. Penalty for felling any public office, or for taking any thing for a vote in the appointing to any fuch office. II. EVERY perion who shall directly or indirectly give or pay any money, For giving or agreeing to give any thing for afee or reward, or hall make any promife, agreement, bond or affurance, to ny fuch office. give any money, fee or reward whatfoever, for any vote or appointment to any office, which concerns the adminiftration of the Executive Government, or the adminiftration or execution of justice, or the receipt or payment of the Public Revenue, or for the clerkship in any Court of Record, or for the deputation or deputations to any of the faid offices, fhall be utterly incapable of ferving in any fach office. EVERY fuch bargain, fale, promife, bond, covenant, agreement Contracts for those purand affurance, as before fpecified, fhall be utterly void and of no effect. poses void. IV. PROVIDED always, That nothing in this A&t contained, shall be Not to extend to apfo conftrued as to prohibit the appointment, qualification, and acting of any De- pointments of deputy puty Clerk, or Deputy Sh riff, who fhall be employed to affift their principals clerks or theriffs. in the execution of their respective offices. (a) 1785, cb. 55, fec 10. (b) 1788, ch. 2. fec. 4. Stat. 5 & 6, Edw. 6, ch. 16. I Official acts of perfons convicted under this, val from office, valid. performed before r mo Repealing claufe. Provifo. Commencement of this act. V. PROVIDED always, That if any perfon or perfons shall be convicted of having offended against this Act, yet all judgments given, and all other Acts executed or done by any fuch perfon or perfons fo offending, by authority or colour of the office or deputation which ought to be forfeited, or not occupied, or not enjoyed, by the perfon fo convicted, after the offence fo by fuch perfon committed or done, and before fuch perfon fo offending for the fame offence be removed from the exercise, administration, and occupation of the faid office or deputation, shall be good and fufficient in Law to all intents, conftructions, and purposes, in fuch like manner and form as the fame fhould or ought to have remained and been, if this A&t had never been made. VI. ALL and every Statute and Statutes, Act and Acts, Claufe or Claufes thereof, within the purview of this Act, (except as herein after provided) shall be, and are hereby repealed. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained fhall be conftrued to repeal the faid Statutes or Acts, for fo much of them as relates to any offence within the purview thereof, committed or done before the commencement of this A&t. VII. THIS Act shall commence and be in force, from and after the paffing thereof. Arrangement of the counties into fenatorial districts. Repealing claufe. Commencement of this act. I. CHAP. LXI. An Alt for arranging the Counties in Diftris for electing Senators. FOR OR the regular election of Senators to the General Aflembly, Be it enacted, That the Counties of Accomack and Northampton, shall be one Diftrict; the Counties of Norfolk, Princess-Anne, and Nanjemond, one other Dif trict; the Counties of Surry, Isle of Wight, and Prince-George, one other District; the Counties of Suffex, Dinwiddie, and Southampton, one other District; the Counties of Brunfwick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Greenfville, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Charlotte, Halifax, and Prince-Edward, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Amelia, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Nottoway, and Powbatan, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Buckingham, Amberft, Albemarle, and Fluvanna, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Franklin, Pittfylvania, Campbell, Bedford, Henry, and Patrick, one other District; the Counties of Wythe, Botetourt, Washington, Montgomery, Ruffell, Greenbrier, and Kanawha, one other District; the Counties of Elizabeth City, Warwick, and York, one other District; the Counties of Charles City, James City, and New-Kent, one other District; the Counties of Goochland, Henrico, and Louifa, one other Dif trict; the Counties of Hanover and Caroline, one other District; the Counties of Augufta Rockingham, Rockbridge, Shenandoah, Pendleton, and Bath, one other District; the Counties of Effex, King-William, and King Queen, one other District; the Counties of Gloucester, Middlesex, and Mathews, one other District; the Counties of Lancafter, Richmond, and Northumberland, one other Diftrict; the Counties of King-George, Weftmoreland, and Stafford, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Spotlvania, Orange, and Culpeper, one other Diftrict; the Counties of Fairfax and Prince-William, one other District; the Counties of Loudoun and Fauquier, one other District; the Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Hampshire, and Hardy, one other District; the Counties of Monongalia, Harrifon, Ohio, and Randolph, one other Diftrict.. II. ALL Ordinances of Convention, or Acts of Affembly, within the pur view of this Act, fhall be, and the fame are hereby repealed. III. THIS Act fhall commence in force, from and after the paffing thereof. CHAP. LXII. Powers vefted in the An Act for reducing into one, the feveral Acts and parts of Acts respecting t [Paffed the 16th of November, 1792.] I. DE it enacted, That if any combination for difmembering this State, establishing in any part of it a feparate Government, fhould become fing combinations for powerful as to cbftruct the due execution of the Laws of this Commonwea difmembering the fate, in the ordinary courfe of proceeding within any County or Counties thereo + May 1776, ch. 6, fec. 12. IN THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH. 59 hall be lawful for the Governor, with advice of Council, to call out the Militia of the State to fupprefs fuch Combination, and to employ them in the fame manner as he may do by Law, in cafes of Invafion or Infurrection. 1792. 11. IT fhall and may be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the For apprehending_fufCouncil of State, to apprehend and fecure, or caufe to be apprehended, and picious fubjects of a fofecured, or compelled to depart this Commonwealth, all fufpicious perfons, reign ftate, in cafe of being the fubjects of any foreign Power or State, who fhall have made a decla- war with fuch state. ration of war, or actually commenced hoftilities against the said States, or from whom the Prefident of the United States fhall apprehend hoftile designs against the faid States; provided information thereof fhall have been previously re ceived by the Executive from him. And in all fuch cafes, the Governor, with Their perfons and pathe advice of the Council of State, fhall, and he is hereby empowered, to fend pers may be fent for and for the perfon and papers of any Foreigner within this State, in order to obtain fecured. fuch information as he may judge neceflary. (a) III. ALL Sheriffs and Jailors fhall receive fuch fufpicious perfons, whom Sheriffs and Jailors to by Warrant from the Governor they fhall be commanded to receive, and them obey the warrants of the in their prifons or cuftody to detain, or tranfport out of the Commonwealth, Governor refpecting as by fuch Warrant they may be commanded. And all others, the good Citi- them. zens of this Commonwealth, fhall be aiding and affifting in apprehending, fecuring, or tranfporting any fuch fufpicious perfon, when commanded by Warrant or Proclamation of the Governor, or required by the Sheriff or jailor to whose custody such fufpicious perfons may have been committed. Every perfon acting under the authority aforefaid, fhall be indemnified from all fuits to be commenced or profecuted for any action or thing done by virtue thereof, and may plead the general iffue and give this Act in evidence. Saying always Saving to foreign merto the Merchants of any Foreign State, betwixt whom and the United States of chants their legal priviAmerica, war fhall have arifen, and to their Families, Agents, and Servants, leges, found in this Commonwealth at the beginning of the war, the privileges al lowed by Law. (a) IV. IF the Governor and Prefident of the Privy Council fhall die, or other who fall officiate as wife become unable to perform his duty, in the recefs of the General Affembly, Lieutenant Governor in the Privy Councillor, whofe name ftands next in the lift of their appointments, cafe of the inability of fhall officiate as Lieutenant-Governor, until the vacancy be supplied, or the dif- the Governor and Preability cease. (6) fident of the Council. V. AND in the abfence of the Governor, fuch intended abfence having When the Council may been previously notified to them by him, and entered on their Journals, or in act without the Goverthe like abfence of the Prefident, and upon the like notification, if any business nor or Prefident. to be transacted at the Council Board neceffarily require difpatch before he can attend it, the Council may proceed without him; and in either cafe the Act fhall be as valid as if he had been prefent. (6) The Governor and Council fhall have Clerks of the Council, power to appoint from time to time, as they shall be wanting, a drawing Clerk, how to be appointed, a copying Clerk, and a Clerk of foreign correfpondence, who fhall each of them take an oath, to be administered by any Member of the Board, to keep fecret all fuch matters as they fhall direct them to keep fecret; which Clerks fhall be qualified, and removed. removed at their will. (c) VI. IT fhall and may be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of Guards for public ferCouncil, to caufe as many men (not exceeding twenty-five) with proper Officers vice how to be procured. to be enlisted as guards for public fervice, as he the faid Governor, with advice of Council, may deem neceffary, and may retain the fame in fervice fo long as the public exigencies may require. (d) VII. IF it fhall happen that there is not a fufficient number of Juftices for When the Exccutive holding a Court in any County, either by deaths, refufal to act, or removal out may appoint juftices of of the County, the Governor for the time being, with advice of Council, fhall the peace without a res have full power to iffue a Commiflion or Commiffions of the Peace for the pointment of any number of Magiftrates in fuch County, fo circumftanced, as thall be judged neceffary for carrying on the business of the fame. (e) ap commendation. VIII. IT fhall be the duty of the Executive to fend copies of the Laws of The Executive to fen this Commonwealth by exprefs, or otherwise, as they fhall think beft, to the the laws to the clerks Clerk of every County and Corporation Court within the fame, for the ufe of of the County Courts. each Magiftrate, Clerk, States Attorney, and Sheriff, in the County or Corporation, as foon as the laid Laws are printed; the expense whereof shall be defrayed out of the Contingent Fund. (4) 1785, ch. 15. (6) 1785, ch. 56. (c) 1785, cb. 58. (d) May 1733, ch. 30. (c) Oct. 1778, ch. 5, fec. 3. |