to pay no

pounds, for the due and faithful execution of his office, and that it shall not be lawful for such commissioner, or any of them, to enter upon the duties of his office before he gives bond and security as aforesaid.

If vessel to tally lost, III. And be it further eaacted, That where any vesgoods saved sel shall be stranded and totally lost, goods saved from the wreck shall not be liable to entry and duties; but if duty. Hvessel cast any vessel be drove or cast on shore, and the damage on shore, & sustained on the goods does not appear to exceed ten the damage on the goods per centum in the judgment of the commissioners, such goods shall be duly entered with the naval officer nearthan ten per est the place where the case happened, according to ent goods law.

not more

to be enter.

ed and pay duty.

[Ch. LXVII in criginal]

Estate of Samuel Gist, a British subject, vested in

Mary Ander

son, his

daughter, & only child.

Retribution to be made to Parke Goodall,

CHAP. XXVII.

An act to vest the estate of Samuel
Gist, in Mary the wife of William
Anderson, and her heirs and assigns,
and for other purposes.

J. WHEREAS application hath been made to this present general assembly, by William Anderson and Mary his wife, for an act to pass, vesting the estate in this commonwealth belonging to Samuel Gist, a British subject, in the said Mary his daughter and only child, who is a native of and resident in this state; and it being judged expedient so to do;

II. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That all the estate both real and personal in this commonwealth belonging to the said Samuel Gist, shall be, and the same is hereby vested in the said Mary Anderson, her heirs and assigns for ever.

III. And be it enacted, That retribution shall be made to Parke Goodall, gentleman, a citizen of this state and presumptive heir to Richard Goodall, a Bripresumptive tish subject, in manner directed by the act of assembly ard Goodall, concerning escheats and forfeitures from British suba British sub- jects, for the amount of the sales of a tract of land ly

heir to Rich.

mount of

ing in the county of Caroline, which was escheated and ject, for asold as the property of the said Richard Goodall. sales of a IV. And whereas a tract of land lying in the said tract of land county of Caroline, containing by estination two hun- in Caroline. dred acres belonging to the said Richard Goodall, is liable to escheat, and it is more just that the same should be vested in the said Parke Goodall than converted to the use of the commonwealth;

to escheat

V. Be it therefore enacted, That the said tract of Lands in Ca land lying in the said county of Caroline, containing roline, liable two hundred acres, be the same more or less, belong as the proing to the said Richard Goodall, shall be, and the same perty of is hereby vested in the said Parke Goodall, his heirs Richard and assigns for ever. Saving to all persons other than vested in those claiming under the said Samuel Gist and Rich- Parke Good. ard Goodall, all just right, title, and interest which they all. could or might claim to the said estates or any part thereof, had this act never been made.

Goodall,

CHAP. XXVIII.

An act to revest certain lands in
Charles Carter and his heirs.

{Ch. LXVIK in original

of certain

I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present ge- Charles Carneral assembly, that in virtue of an act passed In the ter revested year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six, inti- entailed tuled, "An act to empower trustees to sell and con- lands, revey certain lands, whereof Charles Carter the elder is maining unseized as tenant in fee tail, and for other purposes, ,, sold, under a former law: the trustees named in the said act have fulfilled the purposes thereof without selling all the lands they were empowered to do: It is therefore just and proper that the lands so remaining unsold should be revested in the said Charles Carter;

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the said lands so remaining unsold by the trustees in the said recited act mentioned, shall be, and the same are hereby revested in the safd Charles Carter, his heirs and assigns for

ever.

[Ch. LXIX in original.]

Court of Bo

ty authoris

ed to levy a sufficient

sum to pay

་

CHAP. XXIX.

An act to enable the court of Botetourt to levy certain arrears due the incumbent of the parish.

1. WHEREAS it is represented to this general astetourt coun- sembly, that the parish of Botetourt is considerably in arrear to the reverend Adam Smyth, incumbent thereof: And whereas the commissioners of the tax for Botetourt county (there being no vestry in the parish) were by an act of the assembly of the state authorized due the rev; to liquidate, levy and pay all claims against the paAdam Smyth incumbent rish, but the said commissioners, though they liquidaof Botetourt ted the claim of the incumbent, failed to make proviparish. sion for paying the same:

the arrears

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the four first acting magistrates for the county of Botetourt, or any three of them, shall, on any day at their discretion, within twelve months after the passing of this act, assess on the tithable persons of the said parish, a sum sufficient to pay off all arrears that appear due to the said incumbent by the liquidation of the commissioners aforesaid, with lawful interest on the same till paid, as also six per centum to the sheriff of the county for collecting, who is hereby authorized and required to collect and pay the same to the said Smyth, his heirs or assigns, in six months after the receipt of the assessment, or on failure be liable to judgment on motion in the court of the said county, or the general court, having ten days previous notice of such motion.

CHAP. XXX.

An act to appoint trustees for the towns of Woodstock, Cobham, Manchester, and Blandford.

[Ch. LXX in original.]

1. WHEREAS the trustees of the town of Wood- Trustees ap. stock, in the county of Shanandoah, (formerly Freder- pointed for the towns of ick) either by death or removal are become extinct; Woodstock, and the trustees of the town of Cobham, in the county Cobham, of Surry, are so reduced in number as to be incapaci- Manchester, & Blandford. tated to act as the law directs; and some of the trustees of the towns of Manchester, and of Blandford in the county of, Prince George, being dead, some resigned, and others at a great distance from the said towns; And whereas those in the town and its vicinity are not sufficient to transact the business of their appointments for want of a sufficient number to proceed to business, by which the improvements and regulations of the said towns are much obstructed: For remedy whereof,

II. Be it enacted, That Abraham Bird, Jacob Holdman, Abraham Kellar, John Tipton, Philip Hoffman, Jacob Rinkar, George Kellar, Thomas Allen, Henry Fravell, Alexander Hite, John Snapp, and Benjamin Strickler, gentlemen, be, and are hereby appointed trustees to the town of Woodstock aforesaid; and William Brown, Nicholas Faulcon, junior, Jacob Faulcon, William Edwards, John Hartwell Cocke, William Brown, junior, John Watkins, Arthur Sinclair, Richard Cocke, James Kee, and John Hutchings, gentlemen, are hereby in like manner appointed trustees for the said town of Cobham; and Francis Goode, Jacob Rubsamen, Bernard Markham, and John Murchie, gentlemen, be, and are hereby appointed trustees for the said town of Manchester; and that Nathaniel Harrison, Peter Poythress, Robert Gilliam, Thomas Gordon, William Murray, Isaac Hall, John Baird, and Edmund Ruffin, gentlemen, are hereby in like manner appointed trustees for the said town of Blandford: Which said trustees for the said towns respectively to which they are so appointed shall have all the powers and be invested with the same authority, and also in VOL. XI. H

all things they shall be amenable as the original trustees were, or as if the abovesaid trustees had been originally nominated and appointed in the respective laws for establishing the said towns.

[Ch. LXXI. in original]

CHAP. XXXI.

Chan. Rev. An act to amend the act for erecting a Light House on Cape Henry.

p. 162.]

New direct

ors, for light house, at

I. WHEREAS an act of assembly passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, for Cape Henry erecting a light-house on cape Henry and appointing appointed. directors for building and finishing the said light-house as soon as the assembly of Maryland should pass an act for the same purposes: And whereas several of the said directors are since dead, and the surviving ones cannot conveniently meet to make a settlement of the accounts and adjust the balances due to the several creFormer du- ditors; Be it therefore enacted, That John Hutchings, Paul Loyall, Thomas Newton, junior, George Kelly, William White, and Lemuel Corneck, gentlemen, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed directors, and empowered to adjust the several claims and ascertain the balances, which they shall certify to his excellency the governor, and upon a warrant thereupon obtained from the auditors, the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the said sum or sums out of the money which shall arise from duties and tonnage on shipping imposed by the above recited act.

ties appropriated.

Directors to

II. Be it further enacted, That the said directors be, be trustees and they are hereby appointed trustees for the land heretofore and now deemed and held as common.

of the com.

mon.