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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
defendant was indebted to him, or had received, &c.
Or the incumbent might recover on the sheriff's
bond the tobacco or money, with legal interest.
For the safety of the sheriff, however, if he, or any
other credible person, would make oath, at any
time between the last of February and 10th of August, that he had been
informed of any inhabitant of his
county being about to abscond, or to remove his effects from his last place
of residence, any justice might
issue his warrant for the sheriff to execute the body or goods of such
inhabitant, either for the money or
the tobacco, as the case might require. And such warrant was to be
executed without fee, provided the
party did not give sufficient security to the sheriff.
But this act was not to influence the determination
of the question respecting the validity of the 40 per
poll law. |
1773.
CHAP.
XXVIII. |
CHAP. XXIX.
An ACT for raising and applying money towards erecting and
maintaining
a light-house on Cape Henry. |
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WHEREAS his majesty's colony of Virginia, by act
of the general assembly
thereof, have granted a sum not exceeding six thousand pounds
current money of the said colony, for the erecting and finishing a good
and substantial light-house, at a convenient place on the head land of
Cape Henry,
and for purchasing and placing and constantly keeping a light in the
said house, and furnishing the same without proper necessaries, until the
duty of four-pence
per ton of the burthen of each ship or vessel, granted by the said act,
shall
amount to a sum sufficient to reimburse what of the said six thousand pounds
shall
be expended; and thereafter have granted a duty of one penny halfpenny
per ton,
for and towards the support of the said light-house. And as such
light-house and
buoys would be equally beneficial to the trade and navigation of this province,
as
to the trade and navigation of Virginia, it is reasonable that this province
should
join with Virginia in the expence thereof. |
Preamble. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his governor, and the upper and lower
houses of assembly,
and the authority of the same, That the directors and managers
for erecting and
finishing the said light-house, or causing the same to be erected and finished,
already
appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, by act or acts of the general
assembly
of the said colony of Virginia, or such of them as are or shall be
empowered
by such act or acts of the general assembly of Virginia, to lay out and
expend
the said six thousand pounds, or any part thereof, shall be, and are hereby
empowered,
for this province, to lay out and expend any sum or sums of money as shall
be by them thought necessary, not exceeding three thousand six hundred
pounds
current money of Maryland in the whole, in and towards the expences of
building
and finishing the said light-house, purchasing and placing such buoys as
aforesaid,
and also placing and constantly keeping a light in the said house, and
furnishing
the same with proper necessaries, jointly with the money so granted by
the colony
of Virginia, and in proportion thereto as three bears to five; and at such
time or
times as they shall make any certificate or certificates to the governor
or commander
in chief of Virginia, whereon to obtain his warrant or warrants for the
payment of any part of the money granted as aforesaid in Virginia, it shall
and
may be lawful for them to draw their order or orders, to such person or
persons
as they shall think proper, on the commissioners for emitting bills of
credit, for
the due proportion aforesaid of this province, all which orders the said
commissioners
are required to pay out of the monies herein after for that purpose appointed. |
Managers appointed
by
Virginia empowered
to
act for this
province, &c. |
III. And be
it further enacted, That the treasurers of the respective shores,
on
or before the tenth day of February next, shall respectively pay to the
said commissioners
all monies now in their hands belonging to the public of this province,
over and above the sum of three hundred pounds current money, and shall
from
time to time, within two months after their receipt of any other such monies,
which, with the money, pay such excess to the said commissioners, until
the said
sum of three thousand six hundred pounds current money shall be by them
fully
paid into their hands; out of which monies to be paid by the treasurers
to the
commissioners aforesaid, the said commissioners shall pay the orders to
be drawn |
Treasurers to
pay all monies
to the commissioners,
&c. |
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