to the public treasury under the operation of the laws of this session of assembly, for which quit-rents the inhabitants of the said Northern Neck shall be exonerated from the future claim of the proprietor. CHAP. IX. An act granting a conditional pardon to certain offenders. (Chap. Crv in original.] Pardon I. WHEREAS Albridgton Holland, Henry Norfleet, John Caton, and Levi Moore, now under sen- granted to tence of death for acts of treason against this state, Albrigton have made application to this assembly to be pardon- Henry Nor ed for their said offence: Holland, convicted of ¡reason, on diers during the war fleet, John 11. Be it therefore enacted, That the said Albridg. Caton, a d ton Holland, Henry Norfleet, John Caton, and Levi Levi Moore, Moore, shall be, and they are hereby pardoned, and treas execution of the sentence shall not be made. Provid- condition ed the said Albridgton Holland, Henry Norfleet, John that they Caton, and Levi Moore, do serve as soldiers in the serve as solcontinental army during the war. III. And be it further enacted, That James Lamb James Lan b and Joshua Hopkins, who severally stand convicted of treason, by judgment of the general court, at their session in June last, shall be, and each of them are bereby declared to be pardoned and exonerated from the penalties of the said judgment, upon condition that they, and each of them, do within two months depart this commonwealth, and not return into the same during the present war. and Joshua leave the state. [Chap. CV in original.] CHAP. X. Vestry of parish of Saint Anne, in Es sex county, dissolved. An act for dissolving the Vestry of the Parish of St. Anne, in the county of Essex. 1. WHEREAS it hath been represented to this present general assembly, that the present vestry of the parish of Saint Anne in the county of Essex, have not been elected by the freeholders and house-keepers of the said parish, but as vacancies have happened therein they have been supplied by the vestrymen themselves: For remedy whereof, II. Be it enacted, That the vestry of the said parish of Saint Anne be, and the same is hereby dissolved. Ill. And be it further enacted, That the freeholders and house-keepers of the said parish of Saint Anne, shall, before the first day of May next, meet at some convenient time and place, to be appointed and publicly advertised by the sheriff of the said county of Essex, at least one month before such meeting, and then and there elect twelve of the most able and discreet persons, being freeholders and residents in the said parish, for vestrymen, which vestrymen so elected, having in the court of the said county of Essex, taken the oaths prescribed by law, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be the vestry of the said parish of Saint Anne. IV. And be it further enacted, That the vestry of the said parish of Saint Anne, to be elected by virtue of this act, shall levy and assess upon the tithable persons of the said parish, all such sums of money and quantities of tobacco as ought to have been levied and assessed by the said vestry' Provided nevertheless, That notwithstanding any thing in this act contained, any suit or suits brought by or against the vestry or churchwardens of the said parish, and now depending, may be prosecuted in the same manner as if this act had never been made. CHAP. XI. An act to empower the justices of Greenbrier county to clear a wag gon road from the Warm Springs in Augusta. [Chap CVI in original] Court of thorised to Warm 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the justices of the county of Greenbrier, or a majority of Greenbrier them, shall have full power to appoint three or more county, an proper persons, who being first sworn, to view and clear a wagmark a way for a waggon road from the Warm gon road Springs in Augusta, to the Savanna; a report where- from the of being returned to, and approved of, by the said Springs, in court of Greenbrier, they, or a majority of them, are Augusta, to empowered to employ a person, or persons, to clear the Savanna. and open the same, agreeable to the said report, upon the best terms they can, and to levy the expense of clearing and opening the road upon the inhabitants of the said county at large, to be paid according to the value of their estates, agreeable to the assessment made in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, and be collected by the sheriff in the same manner as the public tax for the same year. Provided always, That the said inhabitants shall have the alternative of paying the said tax in money or clean merchantable hemp, to be delivered at the court-house of the said county, to such person as the sheriff or collector may appoint to receive it, according to the price of hemp at Richmond, allowing the deduction for carriage. And provided also, That no distress shall be made for the said tax before the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four. All acts of assembly contrary to the purview of this act are hereby repealed. [Ch. CVII in original.] CHAP. XII. [Chan. Rev. An act for the recovery of arms and accoutrements belonging to the state. p. 176.] the state, to Į. WHEREAS sundry arms and accoutrements belonging to the public are in the brands of individuals, who have neglected to return them to the proper officers; and it is necessary that such arms and accoutre, ments should be recovered as speedily as possible: Arms, &c. II. Be it enacted, That the governor do, on the belonging to passing of this act, issue his proclamation, enjoining be delivered all persons having in their possession, any arms or acup to com. coutrements whatsoever, belonging to the state, to demandants of liver them without delay to the lieutenant or commandregiments.ing officer of the county for the time being; and the sheriff of each county within his commonwealth, shall Proclama- cause copies of the said proclamation, which shall be tion for that transmitted to him by the executive, to be fixed up in purpose. the most public places in this county, and if after one month from such public notice having been given, any person possessing any such public arms or accoutrements, shall be convicted of having failed to deliver them up as aforesaid, such person shall, upon every such conviction, be liable to the penalty of twenty pounds, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of record within this commonwealth, one half of which penalty shall go to the informer, on conviction of the offender, and the other half shall be applied in aid of the county levy where such offender shall reside. And the lieutenant, or commanding officer of cach county, shall make returns from time to time, to the executive, of all arms and accoutrements so delivered to him, and also deliver them to the order of the executive, under the penalty, if he fail in all or any part of this duty, of fifty pounds, to be recovered as aforesaid, and applied in diminution of the county levy. Provided always, That where muskets and bayonets have been by order of government placed in any county on eastern or western frontier for defence against incursions of the enemy, it shall be lawful for the lieutenant or commanding officer to return such muskets and bayonets to the militia, taking a receipt from each person for what shall be so returned, CHAP. XIII. [Ch. CVIII in original.] Chan. Rev. An act to amend the act for calling in I. WHEREAS the time limited by an act for calling in and funding the paper money of this State hath been found too short, and many of the citizens have, from their remote situation, been precluded from an opportunity of sending their money to the public treas sury: for remedy whereof, See Nov. 1781, c. 13 time allow. il. Be it enacted, That the treasurer shall be, and Further he is hereby authorized and required to receive the pad, for reper money issued by this state, and grant certificates turning and for the same in manner prescribed by the said recited funding paact, until the first day of June next, and no longer; per money. any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. Ill. And be it further enacted, That any person State or conpossessed of, or holding any money emitted by con- tinental pa gress, or by this state, shall be at liberty to lay out per moey, the same in the purchase of warrants for unappropria- ed for land ted lands, at the price now established by law, at any warrants. time before the said first day of June. to be receiv. CHAP. XIV. An act to repeal the several acts of assembly respecting the commissioner of the war-office, and the commercial agent. [Chap. CIX in original. i 1. WHEREAS in these times of public distress it behoves the legislature to be as oeconomical as possi- . Duties of ble in the expenditure of public money: commission. II. Be it therefore enacted, That so much of the act er of war of general assembly, passed in the May session one office, to be thousand seven hundred and eighty, intituled "An act by executive performed |