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the vestries of the said parishes, respectively: And the vestries of the said parishes, respectively, are hereby impowered and made capable to take, receive, and hold any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to be purchased or given for a glebe or glebes, for the use of the parsons of the said parishes, for the time being, for ever.

III. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to hinder the collector of the said parish of Saint Martin, as the same now stands entire and undivided, from collecting or making distress for any parish levies, which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants of the said parish of Fredericksville, at the time of its taking place: But such collector shall have the same power to collect and distrain for the said levies, and shall be answerable for them, in the same manner, as if this act had never been made; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding.

CHAP. XXXI.

An Act, for dividing the parish of Bristol, in the county of Prince George; and erecting the same into two distinct parishes; and other purposes therein menti

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HEREAS, by reason of the large extent of the parish of Bristol in the county of Prince George, the minister and inhabitants thereof. labour under many inconveniences: For removal of which, for the future, Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of September next, the said parish of Bristol shall be divided, by a line, to begin at Major James Munford's mill, on Appomattox river, and running thence a course parallel to the lower line of the said parish to Stony Creek; and thence down the said creek to Surry county, and all that part of the said parish, situate below the said line, be erected into one distinct parish, and retain the name of Bristol: And all the other part thereof, sit

uate above the said line, be erected into one other distinct parish, and called by the name of Bath.

II. And be it further enacted, by the authority Bath. aforesaid, That the present vestry men of the said parish of Bristol, that shall continue so to be until the division shall take place, shall be vestrymen of the said parishes of Bristol, and Bath, wherein they shall dwell, respectively: And for compleating the number of vestrymen in the said parishes, the freeholders and housekeepers thereof, shall meet at some convenient time and place to be appointed, and publicly advertised by the sheriff of the said county of Prince George, before the first day of October next following; and then and there elect such and so many of the most able and discreet persons of their parish, as will make up the number of vestrymen in each of the said parishes, twelve, and no more: Which vestrymen so continued and elected, having taken the oaths appointed by law, and subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be the vestries of the said parishes, respectively. And the vestries of the said parishes, respectively, are hereby impowered and made capable to take, receive, and hold any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to be purchased or given, for a glebe or glebes, for the use of the parsons of the said parishes, for the time being, for

ever.

III. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the vestry of the said parish of Bristol shall in their next parish levy Jafter the division shall take place, raise and pay unto the vestry of the said parish of Bath, fifteen pounds of tobacco, free from deduction, for every tithable that shall remain in the said parish of Bristol, after the division shall take place: To be applied towards lessening the levy in that parish, by the poll, and to be in full of all demands, for building of churches, purchasing a glebe, or otherwise, which the said parish of Bath might have against the said parish of Bristol.

IV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to hinder the sheriff, or collector of the said parish of Bristol, as the same now stands

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undivided, to collect or make distress for any levies or other dues, which shall be due from the inhabitants of the said parish of Bath, after the same shall take place, in the same manner as by law they might have done, if this act had never been made; any thing herein contained, or any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding.

CHAP. XXXII.

An Act, to vest certain entailed lands, parcel of a greater tract therein mentioned, in George Braxton, the younger, in fee simple; and for settling other lands of greater value, to the same uses.

I.

HEREAS, William Banks, late of the parish of St. Stephen, and county of King and Queen, tailed lands was, in his life time, seised in fee simple of, and in twelve hundred acres of land, with the appurtenances, situate, lying, and being in the parish and county aforesaid: And by his last will and testament, in writing, bearing date the tenth day of November, in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and nine, devised the same by the name and description of his house, and dividend of land, whereon he then lived, to his son Ralph, conditionally, that he should no way alienate, or transfer the same, to any other use, than to the use or uses that should be by him the said testator, therein declared, and to his heirs of his body lawfully begotten, meaning his children present, or hereafter, to whom the right of inheritance of, in, and to the said land, should descend and go, in case they, or any of them, survive him, as in, and by the said will, may more fully and at large appear. And sometime afterwards, the said William Banks died, so as aforesaid seised; after whose death, the said Ralph Banks entered into the said land, with the appurtenances, so as aforesaid devised, and was thereof seised in fee tail, and died, so seised, sometime in or about the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and thirty five; after whose death, the said twelve hundred acres of land, with the appurtenances, descended and came to William Banks, as heir of the body of the said Ralph Banks, his father; which said last mentioned William

Banks, lately bargained and sold four hundred and twenty acres, part thereof, to George Braxton, the younger, of the parish and county aforesaid, gentle

man.

II. And whereas, the said last mentioned William Banks, is seised, in fee simple, of, and in one water grist-mill, and three hundred and ninety four acres of land, with the appurtenances, in the parish of St. John, in the county of King William, which he is willing to settle to the same uses, as the before mentioned twelve hundred acres of land are settled, by the last will and testament of the first mentioned William Banks, his grandfather so as the fee simple estate of the said four hundred and twenty acres of land, with the appurtenances, may be confirmed to the said George Braxton. And forasmuch as the said water grist-mill, and three hundred and ninety four acres of land, in the county of King William, are of greater value than the said four hundred and twenty acres; and notice has been published, three Sundays successively, in the church of the aforesaid parish of St. Stephen, that application would be made to this General Assembly, to vest the said four hundred and twenty acres, with the appurtenances, in the said George Braxton, in fee simple, upon settling the said water grist mill, and three hundred and ninety four acres of land, to the same uses as the said twelve hundred acres are settled, by the last will and testament of the said William Banks, pursuant to your majesty's instructions:

III. May it therefore please your most excellent majesty, at the humble suit of the said William Banks, son of the said Ralph Barks, and George Braxton, the younger, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the said four hundred and twenty acres of land, with the appurtenances, parcel of the said twelve hundred acres, so as aforesaid devised, by the last will and testament of the said first mentioned William Banks, be, and are hereby vested, in the said George Braxton, the younger, his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of him the said George Braxton, his heirs and assigns for ever: And that the said water grist-mill, and three hundred and ninety four acres, with the appurtenances, in the said county of

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King William, shall be, and are hereby vested, in the said William Banks, son of the said Ralph Banks, and the heirs of his body, lawfully begotten, for ever: And that he, and all and every person or persons whatsoever, who, by the last will and testament of the said William Banks, the testator, might have claimed the said four hundred and twenty acres of land, hereby vested in the said George Braxton, as aforesaid, shall, for ever hereafter, hold and enjoy the said water gristmill, and three hundred aud ninety four acres of land, in the said county of King William, with the appurtenances, successively, one after another, as they might have claimed and held the said four hundred and twenty acres, if this act had never been made.

IV. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successors, and to all and every other person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, their respective heirs and successors, other than the person or persons claiming the said four hundred and twenty acres of land, under the last will and testament of the said William Banks, the testator, all such right, title, estate, interest, claim, and demand, as they, every, or any of them should, or might have had, or claimed, if this act had never been made. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be suspended, until his majesty's approbation thereof, shall be obtained.

CHAP. XXXIII.

An Act, to enable Frances Greenhill, to sell and dispose of her lands, and other estate, by deed or will, notwithstanding her husband Joseph Greenhill shall happen to be living; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

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HEREAS,Frances Greenhill,of the county of Prince George, late Frances Taylor, some time in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixteen, intermarried with one Joseph Greenhill; and at the time of such marriage, was seised in fee, of one tract or parcel of land, lying and being in the parish of Martin's-Brandon, in the county of Prince George, containing by estimation, nine hundred acres; and of one other parcel of land, lying and being in the

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