Certain entailed lands whereof William Cary is seized, vested in Allen Jones. CHAP. XIII. An act to vest certain entailed lands, whereof William Cary is seized, in Allen Jones, in fee-simple, and for settling other lands and slaves to be purchased in lieu thereof. I. WHEREAS William Cary, formerly of the county of Warwick, was in his lifetime, and at the time of his death, seized in fee-simple of and in a tract of high land and marsh lying at the mouth of Skiff creek, in the said county, containing about three hundred and sixty acres, and being so seized made his will and testament in writing, bearing date the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and therein, amongst other things, did give and devise the said tract of land, after the decease of his wife Martha, unto his son Harwood Cary, and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, with several remainders over in case of failure of issue of the said Harwood Cary, as in and by the said will may more fully appear; and after the death of the said testator, and his said wife Martha, the said Harwood the son entered into the said tract of land, and died seized thereof, leaving issue William Cary his eldest son and heir, who entered into the said land, and is now seized thereof as tenant in feetaille, but the said William Cary having no slaves to work the said land the same is of little profit to him, and it hath been represented to this assembly that it will be for the benefit of the said William Cary, and his issue, to sell the said entailed lands, and lay out the money in the purchase of other lands and slaves, to be settled to the same uses, the said William Cary having contracted for the sale of the said entailed lands to one Allen Jones for seven hundred and twenty pounds current money, the full value of the same. II. And forasmuch as notice hath been published three Sundays successively in the several churches of the parish of Warwick, in the said county of Warwick, that application would be made to this present General Assembly for an act to dock the entail of the said lands, and for settling other lands and slaves, to be purchased with the money aforesaid, to the same uses, pursuant to your majesty's instructions. III. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said William Cary, that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the LieutenantGovernour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said tract of three hundred and sixty acres of high land and marsh, be the same more or less, whereof the said William Cary is seized in the county of Warwick, be, and the same is hereby vested in the said Allen Jones, his heirs and assigns, for ever, to his and their own use. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the said Allen Jones shall pay the said sum of seven hundred and twenty pounds to Archibald Cary, John Fleming, Robert Bolling, junior, and Joseph Cabball, gentlemen, In trust; that they, or the greater part of them, or their survivers, shall fairly lay out the said money in the purchase of other lands and slaves, to be conveyed by deed or deeds duly proved and recorded, and from thenceforth the said lands and slaves so purchased shall descend, pass, and go together, to the said William Cary and the heirs of his body, and to such other person or persons as the said lands in the county of Warwick would have remained, gone, and descended, by virtue of the limitations in the will of the said William Cary the elder, if this act had never been made. V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the estate taille in the said lands and slaves so to be purchased shall not be docked or defeated by writ in the nature of an ad quod damnum, or otherwise than by act of assembly. VI. Saving always to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successours, and to all and every other person or persons, bodies politick and corporate, their respective heirs and successours, other than the persons claiming under the will of the said William Cary the elder, all such estate, right, title, and interest, as they, every, or any of them, should or might have or claim if this act had never been made. VII. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof shall be obtained. GEORGII III, Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ et At a General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol, Francis Fauquier, esq. in the City of Williamsburg, on Tuesday the 26th of governor. May, in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George III. by the grace of God of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. and in the year of our Lord 1761, and from thence continued by several prorogations to Tuesday the 30th of October, 1764, in the fourth year of his majesty's reign; and then held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg; being the seventh session of this General Assembly. CHAP. I. An act for further continuing the act for reducing the several acts for making provision against invasions and insurrections into one act. insurrec I. WHEREAS the act of Assembly made in the Act providthirtieth year of the reign of his late majesty king ing against George the second, entitled, An Act for reducing the invasions & several acts for making provision against invasions and tions further insurrections into one act, which was continued by ano- continued. ther act made in the third year of the reign of his pre-. sent majesty, will expire on the eighth day of June next, and it is necessary and expedient that the said act should be further continued: II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General As sembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said act of assembly made in the thirtieth year of his said late majesty's reign, shall continue and be in force from and after the said eighth day of June next, for and during the term of two years, and no longer. CHAP. II. An act for further continuing an act, entitled, An act for reducing the sereral acts made for laying a duty upon liquors into one act. I. WHEREAS the act of assembly made in the thirty second year of the reign of his late majesty king George the second, entitled, An Act for reducing the several acts made for laying a duty upon liquors into one act, which was continued by another act of Assembly made in the first year of his present majesty's reign will expire on the tenth day of June next, and it is necessary that the same should be further continued: II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said act of assembly, made in the thirtysecond year of the reign of his said late majesty, shall continue and be in force from and after the said tenth day of June next, for and during the term of two years from thence next following, and no longer. Taxes, for 1764. CHAP. III. An act for raising a publick Levy, and for other purposes therein mention ed. I. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governour, Council and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and |