for fees con

tinued.

II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Govern- Former acts or, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said act shall continue, and be in force, from and after the expiration thereof, for and during the term of three years and no longer.

CHAP. XVI.

An Act, for continuing and amending the Act, for preventing losses from drivers, passing with cattle through this colony; and for laying a duty on horses.

I.

W

HEREAS the act of Assembly, made in the fifteenth year of the reign, of his present majesty, intituled, an act for preventing losses from drivers, passing with cattle through this colony; and for laying a duty on horses imported, hath been found by experience, to be of great advantage to the inhabitants of this colony:

II. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, 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 shall continue and be inforced from and after the expiration thereof, for and during the term of four years, from thence next following, and no longer.

III. And whereas the crime and offence of stealing of horses is, of late years much increased, especially in the frontier counties of this colony; to the great detriment and loss of many of his majesty's good subjects, occasioned for want of due prosecution and punishment of offenders therein; and for want of encour agement to such persons as shall vigorously endeavour the apprehending of such malefactors: For preventing whereof,

Former act

continued.

IV. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, Reward for That from and after the first day of November next, apprehendall and every person and persons, who shall apprehend ing horse and take any person, guilty of the stealing of an horse, stealers. and shall prosecute him, her, or them, so apprehended and taken, until he, she, or they, be convicted thereof; such apprehenders or takers, for his, her, or their reward, shall have and receive the sum of ten pounds,

within two months after such conviction; to be paid by the treasurer of this colony for the time being, he, she, or they, tendering to the said treasurer, under the hand of the clerk of the general court, or court of oyer and terminer, a certificate of the conviction of such felon or felons, for the said offence, and in what parish the same was committed; and also that such felon or felons, was or were taken, by the person or persons claiming the said reward: And in case any dispute shall arise, between the parties so apprehending the said felons, touching the right and title to the said reward, that then the judges of the general court or court of oyer and terminer, before whom the felon or felons shall be convicted, respectively, shall in and by the said certificate, direct and appoint the said reward to be paid, to and amongst the parties claiming the same, in such shares and proportions, as to the said judges shall seem reasonable. And in case any person or If killed ex-persons shall happen to be killed, by any such horseecutors, &c. stealer or horse-stealers, endeavouring to apprehend,

to receive

reward.

Receivers of stolen hor

ses.

or making pursuit after him or them; that then the executors or administrators, or such person or persons to whom the right of the administration of the personal estate of such person so killed, shall belong, upon certificate delivered, under the hands and seals of two justices of the peace, of the county where the fact was committed, of such person's being so killed, (which certificate the said justices upon sufficient proof before them made, are required immediately to give,) shall receive the sum of fifty pounds; to be paid by the said treasurer.

V. And forasmuch as the said felons are much encouraged to steal horses, because a great number of persons make a trade to receive and buy of the said felons, the horses so by them feloniously taken; and also do make it their business to conceal the said offenders after the said facts, knowing the said felonies to be by them committed:

VI. Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall receive or buy any horse, that shall be feloniously taken or stolen from any other person, knowing the same to be stolen; or shall receive, harbour, or conceal any horse-stealer, knowing him to be so, shall be taken and received as accessary or accessaries to the said felony; and being

of either of the said offences legally convicted, by the testimony of one or more credible witnesses, shall suffer and incur the pains of death, as a felon convict.

VII. Provided always, That if any such principal Accessaries felon cannot be taken, so as to be prosecuted and con- when punvicted of any such offence; yet, nevertheless, it shall ishable. and may be lawful, to prosecute and punish every such person and persons buying or receiving any horses, stolen by any such principal felon, knowing the same to be stolen, as for a misdemeanor; to be punished by fine and imprisonment, or other such corporal punishment, as the court shall think fit to inflict, although the principal felon be not before convict of the said felony; which shall exempt the offender from being punished as accessary, if such principal felon shall be af

terwards taken and convicted.

CHAP. XVII.

An Act, for continuing the Act, for altering the method of trial of certain criminals therein mentioned.

I.

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HEREAS the act of Assembly, made in the twelfth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, an act, for altering the method of trial of certain criminals therein mentioned, will expire at the end of this present session of Assembly; and it being necessary and expedient, that the same should be further continued,

continued.

II. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Govern- Act for trial or, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General As- of criminals sembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That the said recited act shall continue and be in force, from and after the expiration thereof, for and during the term of seven years, from thence next following and no longer.

CHAP. XVIII.

An Act, for appointing several new Ferries.

E it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Coun- Ferries esta cil, and Burgesses, of this present General As-blished. sembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the

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same, That public ferries be constantly kept, at the places herein after named: and that the rates for passing the said ferries, be as follows, to wit,

From Charles Lynch's plantation, in Goochland county, on the Northanna, across the said river, to the land of the said Charles Lynch, the price for a man, three pence, and for a horse, three pence.

From the land of Mr. Benjamin Cocke, in the said county, across the said river, to the land of the said Benjamin Cocke, the price for a man, three pence, and for a horse, three pence.

From the land of Ashford Hughes, on the north side of James river, near the mouth of Willis's creek, in the said county, across the said river, to the land of Robert Carter; and from the said Robert Carter's, to the said Ashford Hughes's, the price for a man, three pence, and for a horse, three pence.

On Rappahannock, from the lot of Joseph Morton, in Leeds town, over the river, to the land of Mrs. Sarah Brooke, the price for a man, eight pence, and for a horse, eight pence.

From Jesse Ball's plantation, in Lancaster county, known by the name of Fox's old plantation, across the river, to a plantation of Mr. Corbin, in Middlesex county, known by the name of Weeks's, the price for a man, onc shilling and six pence, and for a horse, one shilling and six pence.

On Patowmack river, from Evan Watkins's landing, opposite to the mouth of Canagochego creek, to Edmund Wade's land, in Maryland, the price for a man, three pence, and for a horse, three pence.

From the lot of Lemuel Reddick, gent. adjoining to the public wharf, in Suffolk, across Nansemond river, to Samuel Jourdan's land, opposite thereto, the price for a man, four pence, and for a horse, four pence.

II. And the courts of the several counties, wherein such ferries shall be kept, shall have power to appoint proper boats to be kept at the said ferries, for the con, venient transportation of coaches, waggons, and other wheel carriages, that when any such boats shall be so provided and kept, it shall and may be lawful for the keepers of such ferries, to demand and take, for the ferriage of such wheel carriages, the following rates, to wit, for every coach, chariot, or waggon, and the driver thereof, the same as for the carriage of six horses;

And for every cart, or four wheel chaise, and the driver of such chaise, the same as for the ferriage of four horses: And for every two wheeled chair or chaise, the same as for the ferriage of two horses; according to the rates herein before settled at such ferries, respectively, and no more. And that the licences for keeping the said ferries, shall be obtained in the same manner, and the keepers thereof have such exemptions and advantages, and be under the like regulations and restrictions, as is and are by law provided, for and in respect of the keepers of public ferries, heretofore settled and appointed.

CHAP. XIX.

An Act, to impower the Vestry of the parish of Stratton Major, in the county of King and Queen, to sell the glebe of the said parish; and to purchase a more convenient glebe, in lieu thereof.

I.

WHEREAS, the glebe of the parish of Stratton- Vestry of

authorised

Major, in the county of King and Queen, is not Stratton Maa good and suflicient glebe, within the meaning of the jor in King act of Assembly, for the better support and maintenance and Queen of the clergy of this dominion; and, of late years, to sell glebe. hath been of little advantage to the minister of the said parish:

II. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Burgesses of this present General As sembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That the said Glebe Land, belonging to the said parish of Stratton-Major, containing about one hundred and seventy acres, be, and is hereby vested in the present vestry of the said parish, and the vestry of the said parish for the time being, in trust: Never

theless, that the said vestry, or the greater part of them, shall, by deed of bargain and sale, indented, and duly recorded, convey the said glebe, with the appurtenances, for a valuable consideration of money, bona fide received, to such person or persons, as shall be willing to purchase the same; to hold to such purchaser or purchasers, or his or their heirs or assigns, forever.