be paid off II. BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Coun- Tobacco cil, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and debts may it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That at 16s. 8d. it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons, from whom any tobacco is due by judgment, for rent, by bond, or upon any contract, or for public, county and parish levies, or for any secretaries, clerks, sheriffs, surveyors, or other officers fees, or by any other ways or means whatsoever, to pay and satisfy the same, either in tobacco, according to the directions of the act of Assembly, intituled, An act for amending the staple of tobacco, and preventing frauds in his majesty's customs, or in money, at the rate of sixteen shillings and eight pence, for every hundred pounds of nett tobacco, and so in proportion for a greater or lesser quantity, at the option of the payer: And the sheriffs and other collectors shall, and they are hereby required to receive the same from any person or persons, in discharge of any such levies and officers fees; and the sheriffs or other collectors of the levies and fees, aforesaid, shall account with, and pay to the persons entitled to the same, in proportion to their several demands, all tobacco and money which they shall receive in payment of such levies and fees, which shall discharge such sheriffs and collectors from any other demand for such levies and fees, any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. III. Provided always, That nothing herein contain- Not to exed shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any pub- tend to any lic, county, or parish levies, or officers fees now due or debts now hereafter to become due, in any county where by law the inhabitants of such county, are now impowered to discharge the same in money. due. IV. And be it further enacted, That this act shall Continu continue and be in force for the space of ten months, ance. and no longer. Www Preamble. CHAP. VI. An Act for paying the Burgesses wages out of the Treasury, for this session of s sembly. I. WHEREAS by one act of Assembly, made in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for the better regulating the payment of the Burgesses wages, it is amongst other things enacted, that when any session of Assembly should be thereafter held, and upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it should appear that there are monies sufficient in his hands, to discharge all the mo ney debts, together with the Burgesses wages, and the salaries and allowances to the respective officers of the General Assembly, saving and reserving in the hands of the treasurer, over and above the said payments, a ballance of one thousand five hundred pounds, at the least; then every Burgess elected and serving for any county or corporation, within this dominion, should be paid out of the public money, the sum of ten shillings, for each day he should serve in the house of Burgesses, with such further allowances, and under such restrictions and regulations, as in the said act is at large directed. And whereas by reason of the low circumstances of the treasury, the wages of the Burgesses for this present session cannot be discharged in money, according to the letter of the said act, and the payment of the said wages in money will be a great ease to the poorer sort of people, by lessening the levy by the poll, II. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Gover or, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General sembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same. That the Burgesses wages for this present session of Assembly, shall be paid by the treasurer, oz the first day of November, in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty six, out of the publi monies then in his hands, according to the directions and regulations in the said recited act mentioned, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof, in a wise notwithstanding. END OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.. Pleas in, rules concerning 336] Of children imported, how ad ACCESSARIES. In horse-stealing, how punishable 130. May be prosecuted, although the principal felon be not convicted 150. ACCOUNTS. Store, how proved 53. Limitation 54. Defendant may contest such proof 55. ACCOUTREMENTS. Of the militia, of what to consist 531. ACTIONS. Of debt on protested bills of exchange 86. So, on notes 86. So, on bonds, bills, or notes assigned 87. By ministers, for disturbance in their benefices 96. ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. Certain acts repealed 131, 152. ADIE, HUGH Act for relief of, and Nathaniel Harrison 280. ADJUTANT GENERAL. His privileges, in passing ferries 541. ADMIRALTY. Act concerning seamen, not to affect the jurisdiction of 28. judged 41. ALBEMARLE. County, part of, on south side James River added to Bedford 441. Mode of holding courts in, altered 201. Expication of act 231. ALEXANDER, GERARD Intail of certain lands, in Fairfax, whereof he is seized, docked 399. ALEXANDRIA. Fairs allowed in town of 286. Privileges at 287. Act for, revived 499. AMELIA. County divided, and Prince Edward formed 379. Boundaries 380. Court days 380. APPEAL. Allowed, on convictions for gaming 79. To general court 329, $39. Errors, how assigned 339. Damages on 340. Limitation of 340. Judgment in 340. APPEARANCE. In personal actions, without bail 331. By engagement of attorney 331. ΑΡΡΟΜΑΤΤΟΧ. River, act for clearing 291. APPRIASEMENT. APPRENTICES. What poor children may be ARMISTEAD, JOHN sions, for raising 521. Eu- Limi- ment of mutiny, desertion, ATTORNIES. and disobedience 560. Spe- Examiners of, how appointed cial courts martial may be ARTIFICERS. ASSEMBLY. to 185. ASSIGNMENTS. ATTACHMENT. 140. Licence, how obtained AUGUSTA. Encouragement, to settle in BADGES. Rules concerning, in certain |