deer-skins, receivable in the payment of taxes imposed by the said act was repealed. And whereas it is represented to this present general assembly, that many citizens of this commonwealth, in conformity to the first recited act, delivered to the receivers of hemp and flour, before the passing of the last recited act, the whole or a part of their taxes, in the said specifics, and obtained receipts for the same, which it is doubted cannot legally be received or paid in discharge of the taxes now due, notwithstanding the greater part of such hemp and flour has been applied to the use of the public: For removing such doubts, ered accord 8. for taxes, 11. Be it enacted, That all receipts which have not Receipts for been returned to the officer granting the same, or trans- hemp or ferred for hemp and flour delivered pursuant to the di- flour deliv rections of the said first recited act, shall be received ing to act by the sheriffs or collectors in discharge of one half of Oct.1782,ch. the taxes of the persons delivering such hemp or flour, to be now at the rate or price affixed thereto by the said act; and received. such receipts shall be allowed the sheriffs and collectors in the settlement of their accounts for the collection of the public taxes; any law to the contrary, or seeming to the contrary, notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That the auditors Auditors to of public accounts shall be, and they are hereby em- issue warpowered and authorized, to issue warrants to each she- rants to sheriffs, venireriff, witness, and venire-man, that shall hereafter at- remen & wittend the general court on any criminal prosecution, in nesses, such which their allowance is to be paid by the common- warrants, rewealth, and such warrants, when issued, shall be receivable in taxes now due, or that hereafter may be come due. ceivable in takes. [Chapter CC in origin. al.] p. 212.] CHAP. XII. [Chan. Rev. An act to amend an act, for estab lishing pilots and regulating their fees. See May 1783, ch. I. Preamble. Rates of pilotage increased for large vessels.as I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present general assembly, that the prices allowed for pilotage of vessels, by the act, intituled, "An act,for establishing pilots and regulating their fees," are inadequate to their services, Be it therefore enacted, That every pilot may demand and take for each vessel, drawing upwards of ten feet water, one fifth more in addition to the sums respectively allowed by the foot in the said That instead of two pilots only being in recited act. partnership. partnership, as by the said act is directed it shall and may be lawful for any number of pilots, not exceeding four, to be in partnership. Four pilots may be in CHAP. XIV. [Ohapter inal.] CCI in orig- An act to empower the county court of Stafford to levy the Tobacco due to Henry Tyler, deceased, late clerk of the said court. Court of Stafford county au of St. Paul, I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present assembly, that five thousand six hundred and ninety six pounds of tobacco was due to Henry Tyler deceased, thorized to from the county of Stafford, for public services by him levy, upon in his life-time performed as clerk of the court of the the parishes said county, whilst the same was composed of the enand Over- tire parishes of St. Paul and Overwharton, and that wharton, to before the same could be levied by the said court, an Henry Tyler act of the general assembly passed for altering and eslate clerk. tablishing the boundaries of the counties of Stafford and King George, by which the said parish of St. Paul, and part of the said parish of Overwharton, was bacco due to added to the said county of King George, so that the said tobacco cannot be levied without the interposition and direction of the legislature: II. Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the court of the said county of Stafford, and they are hereby required at the laying their next county levy, to levy the said tobacco on the tithables of the said parishes of St. Paul and Overwharton, in the same manner as they could or might have done before the passing of the said recited act. The sheriff or collector of the said county of Stafford shall colleet and account for the said tobacco in like manner as is prescribed in the case of county and parish levies. CHAP. XV. An act for repealing in part the act for establishing the town of Louisville. [Chap. CCI in original.) 1. WHEREAS John Campbell and John Connolly Preamble, being seized as tenants in common, of and in four thousand acres of land, lying at the falls of the Ohio river, did, on the sixth of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, execute each to the other a deed of partition of the said land, whereby the said John Connolly was to take one thousand acres at the upper end, and one other thousand acres at the lower end of the said tract, as his purpart. And whereas the said John Connolly being considerably indebted to the said John Campbell and Joseph Simon, and as a security for the payment thereof, did by deed bearing date the seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, mortgage to them the said two thousand acres of land. And whereas in May session, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, an act passed for laying off one thousand acres of land, then supposed to be the forfeited property of the said John Connolly, VOL. XI. Q 2 into lots and streets, and which was established a town by the name of Louisville. And whereas it is represented to this present general assembly, by the said John Campbell, that partition lines have not been run for ascertaining the bounds between his and the said Connolly's land; and that the sum for which the said Connolly mortgaged his moiety of the said land, together with interest thereon, is still due to the said John Campbell and Joseph Simon, and it being unjust to take from them that security of the land so mortgaged by the said Connolly for the payment of his debt and So much of interest. an act for establishing as affects the 11. Be it therefore enacted, That the act of assembly town of Lou. for establishing the town of Louisville at the falls of isville, in Ohio, so far as it affects the property of the said John Kentucky Campbell and Joseph Simon, shall be, and the same is lands of John hereby repealed; and that no act, matter, or thing, had Campbell, & or done in virtue of the said act, shall be construed, Joseph Sideemed, or taken to affect or prejudice the title of the man repeal said John Campbell and Joseph Simon to the land aSurveyor of foresaid, ed. Jefferson run partition III. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor of the county of Jefferson shall run the partition lines between the said John Campbell and John Connolly, tween John according to the division lines described in the said deed Campbell & of partition. John Con. [Chan Rev. this law See vol. 10, CHAP. XVI. An act for the admission of emigrants and declaring their right to citizenship. 1. WHEREAS it is the policy of all infant states to encourage population, among other means, by an easy mode for the admission of foreigners to the rights of citizenship; yet wisdom and safety suggest propriety of guarding against the introduction of secret enemies, and of keeping the offices of government in the hands of citizens intimately acquainted with the spi the Who shall how acquir ed. rit of the constitution and the genius of the people, as well as permanently attached to the common interest: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That all free persons, born within the territory of this com- be deemed monwealth; all persons not being natives, who have citizens of obtained a right to citizenship under the act intituled this com "An act declaring who shall be deemed citizens of this monwealth. commonwealth;" and also all children wheresoever born, whose fathers or mothers are or were citizens at the time of the birth of such children, shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth, until they relinquish that character in manner herein after mentioned; and that all persons, other than alien enemies, who shall Citizenship,. migrate into this state, and shall before some court of record give satisfactory proof by oath (or being quakers or menonists, by affirmation) that they intend to reside therein, and also take the legal oath, or affirmation, for giving assurance of fidelity to the coinmonwealth (which oaths, or affirmations, the clerk of the court shall enter on record, and give a certificate thereof to the person taking the same, for which he shall receive the fee of one dollar) shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and advantages of citizens, except that they shall not be capable of election or appointment to any office, legislative, executive, or judiciary, When they until an actual residence in the state of two years from may hold the time of taking such oaths, or affirmations, as aforesaid, nor until they shall have evinced a permanent attachment to the state, by having intermarried with a citizen of this commonwealth, or a citizen of any other of the United States, or purchased lands to the value of one hundred pounds therein. offices. Exception place or pension un prince or II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That as to those no person whatsoever, having or holding any place or holding pension from any foreign state or potentate, shall be eligible to any office, legislative, executive, or judici- der foreign ary, within this commonwealth. III. And in order to preserve to the citizens of this potentate, commonwealth, that natural right which all men have of relinquishing the society in which birth ar accident may have thrown them, and of seeking subsistence and happiness elsewhere, and to declare explicitly what shall be deemed evidence of an intention in any citizen to exercise that right; Be it further enacted, That whensoever any, citizen of this commonwealth, shall, by How a citi zen may ex. patriate him self. |