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shall be required by the justices of the peace for each respective
county, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, for and in
consideration of the said allowance.
The duties imposed by this section on the clerks are transferred to the
levy court or other local authorities, charged with the county police. |
How fines,
&c. are to
be discharg-
ed, &c. |
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That all fines, forfeitures and
penalties, imposed or inflicted, and set in tobacco, by any act of
assembly made before the fourth day of July, seventeen hun-
dred and seventy-six, and now subsisting and in force, and all
fees and allowances to officers or others, given by any such
laws, and all fines, forfeitures and penalties, fees and allowances,
to be imposed, created, inflicted, given or made, in tobacco, by
this or any act of assembly hereafter to be made or be in force
during the continuance of this act, shall be paid and discharged
in tobacco, at the rate of twelve shillings and six-pence per
hundred, or in specie, valuing Spanish dollars at seven shillings
and six-pence, and gold and other silver in proportion, or in new
bills at the passing value, at the election of the person charged
therewith; which said value shall be ascertained and fixed at
each term by the court by whom such fines, penalties and for-
feitures, shall be imposed, and where such fees and allowances
shall accrue and become due, and so on until paid and dis-
charged.
This section is reprinted for the rule which it contains, of converting to-
bacco into money, as there are yet remaining many penalties and fines which
are directed to be assessed in tobacco.
See the principal act for the continuances, which are to 30th October,
1805, &c, and thence continued by the annual continuing acts.
CHAPTER 45.
AN ACT to seize, confiscate and appropriate all British property within
this state.
This is not reprinted, as the titles acquired under the law are not so
numerous as to justify the law to be classed as a general Jaw. A reference
to it is sufficient to point out where the evidence of titles acquired under it
may be found.
CHAPTER 49.
AN ACT to appoint commissioners to preserve confiscated British property.
See note to October, 1780, ch. 45.
CHAPTER 51.
AM ACT to procure a loan, and for the sale of escheat lands, and the con-
fiscated British properly therein mentioned.
Although the remarks appended to 1780, ch. 45, apply generally to this
law, yet so much as limits the succession to real estate and deciares when
lands shall in future be liable to escheat, partakes of 'Public General Law'
So much thereof as relates to this subject, will be found in the 5th sec. |
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