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Mr. Solomon Iloge,
AS you are not an inhabitant of this
state, please to TAKE NOTICE, that
I shall proceed, by virtue of a commis
sion issued from the county court of
Frederick, io a suit depending in the
said court, in which you are plaintiff
and I am defendant, in my character
of administrator of James D. ‘Vance
decM. and also by virtue of a eommh.
sion issued from said court in another
suit therein depending, in which
I am plaintiff, in my character of ad
ministrator aforesaid, and vou are de
fendant. to take the depositions of J< bn
Glass Vance at the nif.-e of master
'•')infw)h«*oner in the town of
Winchester, on Mon Jay the lO.h day
of April next, which depositions when
so taken, I shall offer as evidence in
rhe said suits.
ROBERT VANCE,
Administrator of Janie<
1). V artce deceased.
March 1 i
Public Sale.
IN pursuance of two deeds of trust
executed to the subscribers one of
them by Samuel Powell and the other
by Stephen Powell, to secure a debt
due to Lane and lirome of Winches
ter, which they have since assigned
to Mr. Benjamin Welsh of Hump,
shire, l shall on the 1st day of M>*.v
next, before the court house door of
Frederick couoty, offer for sale
FIVE LOTS OF LAN l?,
aituiite, lying and being in the town
ofKingwood, Preston county—also
TWO TRACKS OK LAND,
lying in Ilarrisun Count;/, containing
by estimation together about
300 ACRES,
Tim land lies sixteen miles from
Clarksburg on the road called the state
road leading from Clatk-burg to
Moorefield. The sale will be made at
public auction to the highest bidder
for ready money.
■\ suit has been commenced in
Iresfon county to subject the lots in
Kingwortd, to a claim of a certain Wm.
^nee, the complainant in the said suit,
A'"’ it is confident)} believed that
*haf claim must yield to the lien nf
1<3r,e>nd Broome's deed of trust, yet
n!> v'Rfianty will be given against it;
»n t the pirehaser must take the ri-k
«rthat ela,„ ai))! a|, other ri.k>l on
jSCh,? *• «• ™CKEU, Trust.
their Vh Sub.*er,b*r* l*ave on hand, at
their Shop in Alexandria. D. C. „n
xing street, 3 doors below Washing
S,,' "'1'-™»*.-« r CKKTS,
PfcCK MfcASCHKS, mmle ,r
til :r:rble, ...
will sell at reduced prices f„r (’a„|,
or short credit to punctual customers.
L. CAMPBELL A-CO.
Alexannrin, March 23th_Jtpd.
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Neatly Executed
JtT Tills OFFICE
SKETCH OF THE LAWS,
Passed by the General Jlssembly of
Virginia, at the session which
commenced on Monday, December
6th, 1819.
[CoN'CttJDED.]
130. An act ‘authorising Henry
Hill to assume the surname of New
man.’
t.>7. An act, ‘concerning the Lynch
burg ami N<ilemn turnpik.• company.*
119. An act to nmeml an »<*t, en
titled on act, ‘concerning William
Campbell.*
13U. An net ‘concerning .Tumcs
Paxton.*
110. An act ‘fir paying the offi
cers of the general assembly for tin ir
service* during the present session.*
11 1. An act ‘concerning the clerks
of the several eoitnty courts with,
in this commonwealth,* rushes j»
their dttty to furnish tin* executive, oil
nr before the .list of D-crtuber, in
each year, v. ith a register of the act- "
irig magistrates in their respective
counties, under a penalty of 2 too.
113. An act ‘farther to amend an •
act, entitled *au net for vesting iu <
trustees certain lots and streets in the
(own of Palerfi« hi, and lor other pur
posoH.*
1 !•/ A.. __1__* < !
«an net to provide for tin? col - I
lection of taxes on licenses to mtr- I
chants; to hawkers am! pedlars; to j
keepers of ordinaries and houses of j
private entertainment; on law process I
and certain other subjects,* provides,
that, hereafter, when any Imvvker or
pedlar shall obtain a !i<?en«e to sell
goods of any description, from any
court of record, the clerk shall uliix
tho seal of the court to such license,
for which lie shall receive a fee of
one dollar in addition to the tex on
the seal; that every suc.li license shall
he recorded in the court of each coun
ty or corporation in which the haw
ker or pedlar oilers goods fir sale, for
which he shall pay on« dollar to the
clerk; arid in case of failure, each
hawker or pedlar shall he subject to
the same penalty as if he had r.o
such license.—Any person who shall
oiler for sale or barter, aa a hawker
or pedlar, any goods contiarv to llu*
act, or to the act to which it. is amen
datory, shall forfeit one hundred dol
lars, recoverable as in thet act is pro
vided, Hereafter it shall not he law
ful to grant any such licpn.se. on pay
ment of the tax thereou to the. ser
jeant of uf v •rpoj-Ktjc*;; hat before.
Mich license shall he granted, a receipt
for such tnx shall he produced from
the sheriff’ or deputy sheriff or collc c- j
for of iUe revenue for the county.— |
Rvriy master, owner or commander >
of a vessel, navigating water within i
the jm »sdietion of this commonwealth, j
and every person on board such ves* '
sel, who shall sell or offer for sale, I
anv 2’jods. wares n- niPri-lmmliio l,« I
retail, on hoard the said vessel, tdiall
he considered as a hawker and ped
lar, within the meaning of this net,
and oi the art to which this is amenda
tory, and every such master, <yc. who
shall nell. or oiler jor sale, any goods
&.C. hy retail, as aforesaid, within the
jurisdiction of this Commonwealth,
without having obtained a license, or
without having recorded the same,
may be prosecuted and punished hy
the justices of the court of ary county
or corporation, opposite the shore
whereof such nRenee shall have been
committed; provided that nothing in
this act contained shall extend to^ the
sale of any goods, ^'c. the growth,
produce or manufacture of (his State,
or to the aale of aoy provisions or
agricultural produce, the growth of
any ol the United States. Takes pf.
feet the first of June, eighteen hundred
and twenty.
lib An art, ffn amend the net en
titled, 'an net to reduce into one net
the several acts concerning executions,
and for the relief of insolvent debtors'’
—I Ibis act was published in the Ga
zette of the tetli Feb.]
An act ‘concerning suits of
error, cnrani voids, au.1 for other pur
poses. — Hy this act, writs of error,
coram vobis, and all other writs of
error in civil cases^ may bo awarded,
m vacation, by any judge of the court
of appeal*, or general court, or any
superior ooiirt of law, or by any two
justices of a County or corporation
court, in the some manner, and upon
the same conditions as such Writs may
he awarded by the said court respec
tively in term time. Every such writ
issued in pursuance of this act shall
operate as a supersedeas. Every bond
given upon taking an appeal, or upon
the issuing of any writ of error or su
parsed?as, and all hands and obliga*
lions, given far a good and valuable
consideration, shall be as good and
available in law, though (he obligee
or obligees, or part of the obligees
therein mention, he dead at the timo
of (ho execution thereof, as if such
obligee or obligees had then been in
full and every such bond or obli
got'^n riiay be proeecdetj on by the j
surviving oongee or obligee*, or by the
representatives of the decedent or de
cedents, in the same manner as if such
decedent or decedents had befcn ahvo
at the time of the execution thereof,
and had immediately thereafter died.
nr». An act *to amend an act, en
titled, ‘an act against embezzling of
records, and fur other purposes*—pro
vides that, if any record, or parcel of)
the same, or any writ, return, panne!,
process or warrant of attorney in any
court oi record be stolen, or be willing
ly and fraudulently taken awuy, with
drawn nr avoided, by anv clerk, or hy
I UI7.V other person, such "stealer, tuker
away, withdrawer or avoider, his
procurers. Counsellors and abettors,
•dial! be adjudged guilty of felony, uni!,’
if a slave, shall sailer death; but if
such felon be free, he or s5le shall he
sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentiary house for not lessthan five,
nor more than fifteen years. If any
officer ni public truci in this common,
wealth, or any officer or directory of
nov cluirter* d hy '.his cnrnrnon
weanil. shall eipliezzle, or fraudulent- I
!y eor,v*'rf to his use, or shall know- ,
wipfy r'liter any nflier person to em- {
b:r>.!r or fraudiilentl> convert to his |
or their usi , any sum of money. Sunk j
r.ute, l>;t|, cheek, bund or other seeuri- ]
• y in i.u iiiiy juaeeu Hiiiier “ s eare or |
manngctntMti by virtue of bis office nr |
[iliu-e aforesaid, the person ?o offend- i
'"5* aiders, abettors and counsel* j
lor*, *»?mll he adjudged guilty of felony, !
:vmi »e sentenced to imprisonment in
the penitentiary, for a term not less
tnin three, nor more than teri years.
117. Ah act ‘authorising the Go
vernor with the advice of council, to
commission liawley Evans as sheriff
o! .Monongalia county, and for other
purposes.*
t is. An act ‘to change the quar
terly terms of Lewis County; to the
second Mondays in Apiil and Septem
ber in each year.
M'J. An act ‘authorising the visi
tors oi tfie University of Virginia to
borrow money for finishing the build
ings thereof.* Sum authorised to be
borrowed is not tn exceed g(i0,000;
rati; of interest not to exceed 6 per
ceoinm per annum. For payment of
iho interest and redemption of the
principal, any part of the annual ap
propriation of Sl->.0(,Os heretofore
intuit* bv law to the said university, is
to !»e pledged.
1i10. An ae.t ‘concerning the presi
dent and trustees of the Charles City
Charily School.’
1>t. An act ‘to nmpnd ru act, en
lilif'd, *.ii. act to <>rnerd the.act re
dueing into one the several acts con.
eerning the inspection of lumber,’di
rects that all lumber brought iuln this
from anv other state or territory, shall
be subject to the rules and regulations
ot inspection: save such lamber as may
he specially exempted from inspection
by h nv law, now in force.
t.'i2. An act ‘giving farther tine
fir the redemption of lauds vested in
;he president and directors of the
Literary Fund, and for other purpose*,’
allow* two years from the 23d of Feb.
t820, for that purpose: such redemp
tion is not to he by payment to any
cleik, but into the trea«urv ontv. The
list and 42d sections of the aet of
February ?», 1814, shall continue in
loi! force in relation to all such lands,
in lire same manner, as if they had
m-ver been offered for sale under the
said act.
iimenw hc', en«
tit.♦-»«, fa»i hi*t. to reduce into one act
the several nets, and parts of acts, for
establishing a penitentiary house, arnl
fur the punishment of crimes,* repeals
the 4fiih section of that act,
1‘’4. An aet ‘requiring the gover
nor of this Commonwealth to transmit
to die Secretary of State of the United
States, copies »ff certain laws therein
mentioned.v Under this aet four co
pies of (he Revisal of 1702, and of
each subsequent Revisal, four copies
of the Session Acts of 16I« and
and annunlly thereafter of each
session of Assembly; one copy to bo
fur the me of the two houses of Con
gress, one for the Use of each of the
two houses of Congress, one for the
president of the United States, and
one for the horary of Congress
1 An act ‘for the relief of
Rachel Home*, widow and adminis
tratrix ofSa mu el Haines deceased,* I
lofi. An act ‘concerning Charles
Vision.’
i57. An act ‘making provision for
publishing reports of the decisions of
the. court of appeals,’ authorizes and
requires the Court to appoint a proper
person to report the decisions of the
said court, whose duty it sh&II he to
publish on or before the 1st day of
January, tHJtt and annually (hereaf
ter, a volume of reports, well printed
on good paper, large octavo, and bound
in calf, with a full and complete index;
which volume shall contain the deci- i
sinus of at least one year; that is to I
say, all cases decided in such year, as,
in the opinion of any one judge of the
j said court shall be worth reporting;,
I and to deliver to the clerk ef tbs eoun.!
cil 600 copies of tho said volume for
tho use of the commonwealth; printing
on his own account, not more than 400
copies additional, of ihe first edition of
the work: whereupen the (Joveruor
with the advice of council, shall direct
the auditor to issue a warrant in favor
of said reporter for the sum of 6.J 2 3 1
cents for every 100 pages contained in
each copy of the said work, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated. The ' said
copies received on behalf of tho com
monwealth shall be distributed, as
follows; viz. one copy (o each clerk
of the superior and inferior courts for
the use of their respective coarts; ono
copy to eaeh of the judges of the court
of appeals. general court, and superior
courts of Chancery; one eopy to the
attorney general, and to each of the
attornics for the commonwealth in the
superior or inferior courts; and the
remaining copies shall be sold for the
public benefit, for the price of St for
every^ too pages, in such manner as
b.xtuMitive .shall order and direct.
* *1^ reporter so appointed s.’iuil hold
his id Vice during the pleasure ol‘ the !
court iif annuals.
li5S. An net, ‘to amenl r.n act, en
titled. ‘nn net reducing into one all
acts, and parts of acts, concerning the
superior courts of ehancerv, provides
that, during any vacancy,* by death,
cj c, in the office oi' marshal, process
may he executed by the Sheriff, as for
merly ; and that the fee to the clerk of
the genera! court and to the cierks of
the superior courts of chancery for a
search, shall be IS cents, instead of.Si
cents, as allowed in the new Revised
Co de.
10t>. An act, ‘to amend an act re
ducing into one the several aels pre
scribing the mode of ascertaining the
taxable property within this common*
wealth, and of* collecting the public
revenue, provides, that the courts of
the counties of Amherst, Berkeley,
Cumberland, Fairfax, Guoehland,
Hampshire, Hardy, Lie of Wight,
King ft Q ueen, Louisa, Lunenburg, j
Monroe, Orange, Ohio, Prince Kd
wanl. Princess Anne, Prince William,
Pendleton, Russell, Scott, Susses, and
Stafford, shall hereafter be authorized
to appoint one commissioner oi* the
revenue only ; and the counties of
Frederick, Fauquier, and Loudoun, to
appoint two such commissioners only.
The court ol* the several counties
aforesaid are authorized to allow each
commissioner a sum not exceeding
S5200. The courts of Cabell, Giles,
NeLnn, Nicholas, Preston, Tazewell,
and Morg-a, are t-> appoint each one
comrhiss:oner, whose compensation is
to be the same as that allowed in the
counties not specified in this act.
1 he commissioners for each county
which has been established since the
new assessment, are to apply to the
commissioners of the counties of which
such new counties were part, and from
the fables of assessment furnished l*y
the auditor, compile a correct list of
all the lands in inch new county, in
the form of those tables ; a copy
whereof shall bo transmitted to the
auditor on or before the 1st of .Se.pt.
next, and (he auditor is to correct his
tables of assessment, by strikiag from
the list a'» such tracts of land as here
tofore composed any part or the whole
of such new county and the table so
KirniHiieu «nall he «! eqiml validity
with the other tables in his office ; ami
lie shall also charge the amount there
of in.the same manner e.s that »f other
counties ; and the commissioners of
auy such county, which composes
part of a new county, shall also
strike from their list all lands con
tained in such new counties.
frio. An act, ‘changing the time
of holding the superior courts of law
in the county of Harrison,’ to the 1st
Monday in April and September, in
stead of the time heretofore prescribed
law,
161. An act ‘to amend the act, to
reduce into one the several act* con
cerning the Auditor and Treasnrer,
provides, that the auditor of public ac
counts shall keep a gpneral ledger of
accounts into which a!! the balances
tine to or from this Commonwealth
shall he brought; and at the end of
each fiscal yeur, the unsettled accounts
011 the said book shall he balanced and
the balances carried forward to the
books of the succeeding year. And it
shall, moreover, he the duty of the
auditor to lay before the General As.
serably, at each session, a list of all
unsatisfied claims da® to or from this •
commonwealth, corresponding with the
balances struck on his honks at (he ter
mination of the last fiscal year, with
such marginal notes as will shew llie
nature of the debt) the steps taken to
enforce payment and the prospect of
collection in crises of claims due to the
commonwealth. The auditor shall on
the last day of each quarter of the fis
cal year in each year, compare the
books of hi* office with those of the
treasury department, and, after ha
| ving carefully entered all the receipts
I and disbursements op to that time,
strike the balance 90 hi hook*, thewr
ing.the amount of money in the hands
of the treasurer dpe to the common
wealth an/1 earry the said balance for
ward t«». the next year. _
The Treasurer "shall keep a general
ledger of accounts into which he shall
post all the receipts and disbursements
at his office, arranging the receipts and
disbursements under the heads to which
they properly belong:—-lie shall open
in tsie, said ledger a general account of
receipts and disbursements, which last
mentioned account, he shall compary
with the books kept, bv the auditor in
his office on the last da'y of each quar
ter ot the fiscal year in each year, ami
er having made them to correspond
shall strike the balance on the said ac
count shewiug the amount at that time,
in his uands, due to the commonwealth,
which balance shall be carried forward
on the books to the general account for
the next quarter.—The treasurer shall
keep accounts on the books of his of
fice with the different banks in which
the public revenue or money is depo
sited, on which , balances shall bo
«iruc.x at (be aforesaid pviods, shew
ing liie amount in bank to the credit of
the commonwealth at the end of each
quarter. And he shall moreover keen
1 general cash account, which shall he
na I lanced at the aforesaid period-,
shewing the ballance in the Treasury
0C1-*e ai the end of each quarter.
1 he Executive shall appoint a
committee of their body whose duty it
shall be to repair to the treasury office
at the. end of each of the quarters a
ioresaid for the purpose of examining
the Settlement made by the auditor and
treasurer, detecting errors in such set
tlement, if there be any, ascertaining
t.ie money on deposit in the Banks, and
. mone> the treasury, which com
mittee shall make report thereof to the
denitive, and if it shall appear lu
their satisfaction that the treasurer
has misapplied public money of trea
sure committed to his care, it shall be
ihe duty of the. Executive, and they
are hereby required forthwith to dis
place him from ofi.ee, and appoint a
successor to continue in oli\ce until an
appointment be made by the General
Assembly.
1 ne ofi.ee hours for transacting bu
siness in the treasurer’s and auditor’*
office, shall be us follows: from tha
first day of April to the first day of
November, the office shall be opened
at eight o'clock, and from the first day
of November to the first day of April,
they shall be opened at nine o’clock,
am! shall not close sooner than three
o’clock, on any day.
i C An ."ct, ‘authorising ‘he Tree -
surer of this Commonweal!h to appoint
an Accountant and prescribing his dn
tie-, authorises and requires the Trea
surer, as soon as possible, to emplov a
competent accountant, whose duty it
shall he, under the superiotendanee of
the treasurer—t. To examine into and
ascertain all sums of money which
have been received from the govern
ment of the United States, by this com
monwealth, for advances made, or debts
lociirrci. by this slate for the service
of the United States, during the late
war with Great Britain. 2. To ascer
tain whether atiy such sums of money
as aforesaid were paid, and in wba*t
medium, whether bank notes, treasury
notes or specie. 3. 'I o ascertain what
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the payment of the public debt of thi*
commonwealth, what portion to the
purchase ot block, where the stock was
purchased, the price given for each
kind, and its present condition and va
lue. 4 To ascertain the amount of
all dividends derived from the stock of
the commonwealth in all turnpike and
navigation Companies, to whom and
when such dividends were paid since
the 1st day of Oct. 1909; and in
like manner to ascertain the dividends
which have accrued and been paid to
• he commonwealth upon its stock in
the Bank of (he United States, (ho
Book of the A alley of Virginia, auil
the Northwestern Bank of Virgiuia.
The accountant aforesaid shall com
pare the statements thus made by him,
and (he sums of money thus ascertained
by hrm to have been paid to the com
monwealth, with the books in the of
fice of the treasury and in the auditor'*
otfiee, &, ascertain, as far as practica
ble, the particular times at which unv
of the public money may have been
misapplied, and the result of the whola
together with the various account*
which it may be necessary for him to
make out, he shall report to the go
vernor and council, who, after exami
ning them, shall furnish the same to
the treasurer of this commonwealth*
for his direction and information, with
regard to any suit which he may. in
obedience to law. institute against his
predecessors in office. 2, For thp ser
vices required by this act of the ac
countant aforesaid, he -TiniI be allowed
k compensation at the rate of 2000
dollars per annum, during the time ha
shall be actually engaged in perform
ing such services. .1. As soon as tbe>
i governor and council shall have ascer
I tained the compensation of the ae
I eoootnot aforesaid, agreeably to the