Repealing clause. this act; and such court, without any other notice be ing given of such motion than, is given by this act, is hereby authorized and required to give judgment accordingly, in which no attorney's fees shall be taxed, and thereupon to award execution, upon which the clerk shall endorse "that no security is to be taken;" and upon such motion, which the said court may, if they see cause, continue to any other day of the court, or until the next court, the sheriff's receipt given for the said fees shall be admitted as full and complete evidence of the amount thereof put into his hands to col lect. II. And be it further enacted, That so much of all and every act or acts of assembly as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby reg pealed. [Ch. CXXX in original.] Liberty Hall CHAP. XXXVII. An act for incorporating the rector and trustees of Liberty Hall Acαdemy. 1. WHEREAS it is represented to this present as Academy in sembly, that a seminary is formed in the county of the county of RockRockbridge, and that it will greatly promote the purbridge in poses of its institution to incorporate the same with corporated certain privileges; and the general assembly being ever disposed to give aid and encouragement to seminaries of learning, do enact, That the said academy shall be, and the same is hereby stiled Liberty Hall Academy, That the reverend William Grabam, rector, Arthur Campbell, William Christian, Andrew Moore, William Alexander, Joseph Walker, Alexander Campbell, John Wilson, John Trimble, John Hays, John Bowyer, Samuel M Dowell, George Moffett, William M.Kee, James M Cockle, Samuel Lyle, Archibald Stewart, the reverend Caleb Wallace, John Montgomery and powers. William Wilson, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of Style of cot the rector and trustees of Liberty Hall Academy; and poration. by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal. And that they and their successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors forever, any lands, tene ments, rents, goods or chattels of what kind soever, which shall be given to, or purchased by them, for the use of the said academy; and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien, or dispose of, in such manner as to them may appear most for the advantage of the said academy: And by the same name to sue and implead, be sued and impleaded, answer and be answered in all courts of Corporate law or equity, and from time to time, under their com→ mon seal, to make and establish such bye-laws, rules and ordinances, not contrary to the constitution or Jaws of this commonwealth, as by them shall be thought necessary for the good order and government of the professors, masters and students of the said academy: That the said rector and trustees, or any six of them, are hereby authorized and required to meet at the said academy, on some day to be appointed by the rector, before the first day of March next, and then and there Professors, elect and commission, under their common seal, such masters and number of professors, masters and tutors as they may think necessary for the instruction of the students, and the same to remove for good cause shewn; provided that no professor, master or tutor shall be admissible without first taking the oath of fidelity to the commonwealth; and annually to grant to such students, as in their opinion merit the same, testimonials under the common seal, and signed by the rector and three of the trustees at least, reciting their literary degrees. The rector and trustees, or a majority of them, shall elect by ballot, a treasurer for the said academy, who shall give bond and security for the faithful discharge of his office and the trust reposed in him; and shall, when required by the said corporation, render an account of all monies, goods and other chattels, received or expended on account of and for the use of the said academy; and on failure or refusal, shall be subject to the like proceedings as is prescribed by law tutors. Degrees conferred. Treasurer, Oath of officers, Professors and students in that, and The shall The in the case of sheriffs failing to account for and pay II. And be it further enacted, That the rector, professors, masters and tutors, duly elected for, and bona fide acting as such in the said academy, and in all oin all other ther seminaries and public schools, and also all students seminaries, thereof, under the age of twenty-one years, shall be, schools, ex- and are hereby exempted from military duty. empted from property, real and personal, now belonging to the said military du- academy, is hereby transferred to, and vested in the ty. said corporation for the benefit of the said academy, and public All CHAP. XXXVIII. [Chapter CXXXIII in original] [Chan Rev. An act for further continuing and amending the act to make provision p. 181.] for the support and maintenance of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound minds. 1. WHEREAS the act of general assembly passed in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, intituled, "An act to make provi- Should be sion for the support and maintenance of ideots, luna- 1769, see tics, and persons of unsound minds," which hath been vol. 8, p 378 continued and amended by several subsequent acts, will expire at the end of the present session of assembly, and it is expedient and necessary to continue and amend the same: Be it therefore enacted, That the said Act concern act shall continue and be in force from and after the ing ideots & present session of assembly, for and during the term of ther continten years, and from thence to the end of the next ses- ued. sion of assembly. lunatics fur Annual ap II. And whereas great inconveniencies have arisen from the want of proper funds to support the hospital propriation established for the purpose of providing for such un- to be paid fortunate persons; Be it enacted, That the treasurer out of the for the time being, upon the governor's warrant to the treasury. court of directors, is hereby empowered and required to pay annually, out of the treasury, such sum or sums of money as shall be by law appropriated for the repairing the said hospital, the payment of salaries to the keeper and matrous, and also to the nurses, guards, physicians, or surgeons, that may be employed by the said court of directors, and any additional sum not exceeding twenty-five pounds per annum, for the support and maintenance of each person that shall be confined in the said hospital. And the sheriff, or other officer, conveying such unfortunate persons to the said hospi- Allowance tal, agreeable to the directions of the said recited act, to sheriff for shall receive from the treasurer such compensation for conveying his trouble and expences, as to the court of directors lunatics to shall seem reasonable, to be certified by them to the the hospital. auditors of public accounts, whereupon a warrant shall ideots and issue to the treasurer for the payment of the same, who is hereby authorized to pay the amount of such warrant to such sheriff, or other officer, out of such money as shall be by law appropriated for that purpose. All and every act or acts, coming within the purview and meaning of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. [Chapter CXXXIV in original.] Chan. Rev. pa. 181. commission ed. To give bond. CHAP. XXXIX. An act concerning the appointment of sheriffs. I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Sheriffs, how court of every county within this commonwealth, shall, nominated & annually between the last day of March and the last day of May, nominate to the governor, or chief inagistrate for the time being, two persons named in the com mission of the peace for their county, one of which persons so nominated shall be commissioned by the governor to execute the office of sheriff of that county, and shall qualify to his commission at the court to be held for the county in November, or if no court shall be then held, or be shall be unable to attend, at the next succeeding court. Every person accepting the commission of sheriff, shall, before his being sworn into or executing his office, enter into bond before the justices of his county court, with good and sufficient security, in the sum of ten thousand pounds, for the true and faithful collecting, accounting for, and pay ing the taxes imposed by law in his county; which bond every county court is hereby empowered and required to demand, take, and cause to be acknowledged before them in open court, and recorded; and an attested copy Copy sent thereof shall be transmitted by the clerk, to the audito auditors, tors of public accounts, at the same time that he delivers to the said auditors a copy of the list of the taxable property in his said county, which shall be admitted as evidence in any suit or proceeding founded thereAny person recommended as aforesaid, or ap vidence. on. |