Vacancies ed. time to time, be kept full and entire: And if any member of the council, appointed to be of the said committee, be so disabled, another member of the council shall and may be appointed, in his stead and how suppli- place, by the governor or commander in chief, for the time being; or if any member of the house of burgesses. appointed to be of the said committee, shall be so disabled, then the speaker of the house of burgesses, or in case of his death or disability, the major part of burgesses of the said committee which shall be present at the next meeting after such disability, shall be, and are hereby impowered, to clect and choose a burgess or burgesses, to supply the place and stead of the burgess or burgesses so disabled; which said councillor or councillors, burgess or burgessess, so appointed and chosen, shall be, and are hereby declared, members of the said committee, as if he or they had been, by this act, particularly nominated and appointed: And in case of the death or disability of the said clerk, the greater part of the said committee, who shall be present at the next meeting after such disability, shall have power to choose and appoint another in his stead. IV. Provided always, That no person whatsoever, either Councillor or Burgess, shall be enabled or admitted to give any vote, or have any voice, at any of the meetings of the said committee, other than those persons who are or shall, from time to time hereafter, by virtue of this act, be appointed or chosen to attend, as members of the said committee. Proviso. Where to meet. V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said committee shall meet, at the city of Williamsburg, upon the fourth Monday in July next, and shall sit, from day to day, as long as they shall think necessary, at any of their meetings; and all adjournments, other than the next day, not being Sunday, shall be made to the fourth Monday of every succeeding month: And if the revisal of the whole body of the laws, be not completed by the end of the said meeting of the said committee in November next, then they shall have full power and authority, by virtue of this act, to adjourn themselves to the fourth Monday in March following; and then afterwards shall proceed, from month to month, in manner as is before expressed. nuance. New mem. bers how ad VI. Provided always, That if by badness of weath- No discontier, sickness, or other accidents, it should so happen, that a full number of the said committee should not meet, sufficient to act as a committee, or to adjourn, at any of the time or times before expressed, the said committee shall not be thereby discontinued; but they shall and may meet and act the next day following, or on the fourth Monday in the next month, as if the said committee had really and actually adjourned themselves to that time: And also, if any member or mem bers of the said committee, either Councillor or Burgess, shall be disabled in manner aforesaid, the said mitted. committee, or the greater part of them present at the next meeting after such disability, shall judge of the said disability; and if they find it necessary, shall make application to the governor or commander in chief for the time being, or to the speaker, for the filling up of such number, in manner aforesaid; and until such application be made, the governor or commander in chief, for the time being, or the speaker, may not appoint any such member or members, in manner aforesaid: Any thing in this act to the contrary, in any wise, notwithstanding. VII. And be it further enacted, by the authority aNot to be foresaid, and it is hereby enacted, That if this present discontinued General Assembly should be hereafter dissolved, be- by dissoltion. fore the whole body of the laws of this his majesty's of Assembly. colony and dominion be revised, the said committee shall not be thereby discontinued; but the governor or commander in chief of this his majesty's colony and dominion, for the time being, and the speaker of the present house of burgesses, or in case of his disa bility, the greater part of the committee then sitting, shall and may appoint any member or members of the council, or any burgess or burgesses of the present house of burgesses, in case of any disability, as aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, as if the said Assembly had hever been dissolved. Power of VIII. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, and it hereby enacted, That the said com- committee to mittee shall be, and is hereby authorised and impow- send for perored, to send for any persons, papers, records, or co- sons, papers pies of records, by warrant, under the hand of any one of the council, and two of the burgesses of the said committee: And if any officer, or other person or per and remords. force, till al sons, shall neglect or refuse to obey any such warrant, as aforesaid, he or they so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds Sterling, to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successors, for and towards the defraying the charge of the said revisal; and to no other use, intent, or purpose whatsoever: To be recovered by action of debt, or information, in any court of record in this his majesty's colony and dominion; in which no essoin, protection, wager of law, privilege, or imparlance, shall be admitted or allowed. Present laws IX. Provided always, and it is the true intent and to remain in meaning of this act, That notwithstanding the powers tered by As- given by this act, to the said revisors, the laws of Vir sembly. ginia shall stand, remain, and be in force, as now they are, until they shall be repealed, abrogated, made void, amended, or altered, by act of Assembly; and that all bills, of what nature soever, that shall be reported by the said committee of revisors, as aforesaid, shall be construed and deemed not to have any force or authority until they have had their formal readings, and are made laws by an Assembly: Any thing in this act to the contrary, in any-wise, notwithstanding. Report of re- And that the services of the said committee, and clerk, visers to with all reasonable and incident charges, be, at the have formal readidings," next session of Assembly, considered, rewarded, and &c. allowed; and so from time to time, as they shall res port to the succeeding Assembly or Assemblies, till all the laws be revised, as aforesaid. Preamble. CHAP. V. An Act, for further amending the Act, intituled, Au I. WHEREAS by an act, made in the fifteenth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act, for reducing the laws made for amending the Staple of Tobacco; and for preventing frauds in his majesty's customs, into one act of Assembly, among other things it is enacted, That the inspectors shall make every hogshead of Tobacco, paid away in discharge of any transfer note by them given, to contain eight hundred and fifty pounds nett; and it being now found expedient to alter the same, and prize Tobacco to a greater weight: Transfer to II. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General As- bacco to be sembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the made crop. same, That all inspectors, from and after the ninth day of November next, shall, and they are hereby obliged to make every hogshead of Tobacco by them paid away, in discharge of transfer notes by them given, to contain nine hundred and fifty pounds nett at the least; and where any light crop Tobacco shall hereafter be passed, the inspectors passing the same shall, if required, as soon as they conveniently can, without fee or reward, permit the owner thereof, or other person, to make use of one or more of their prizes, to make the same heavier. And whereas, by reason of the large quanity of Tobacco brought to the warehouses at Page's, on Pamunky river, it is thought necessary to have another inspection at or near that place: III. Be it therefore enacted, by the authority afore- Warehouses said, That from and after the said ninth day of No- established. vember, a public warehouse be erected at Crutchfield's upper landing, on the land of Mann Page: And that the rent thereof be eight pence per hogshead. IV. And be it further enacted, That the warehouses Warehouses at Hog-Neck, in James-City, county, and at the Brick- disjoined. House, in New-Kent county, now under one inspection, be disjoined, and made two inspections: V. And for the better settlement of the salaries of Inspectors the inspectors hereafter mentioned, Be it further en- salaries. acted, That the same be established for each inspector according to the following rates: At Page's, Pounds per annum. At Crutchfield's upper landing, 40 40 25 At Hog Neck, 20 At the Brick House, VI. And whereas large quantities of Tobacco have what ware been damaged, by the flowing of the tide into many houses to warehouses; for prevention whereof for the future, have floors Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That where any public warehouse is built so near any river, or raised. creek, that the Tobacco brought thither may be in danger of being destroyed, by the overflowing of such river and creek, the respective courts of the counties where any such warehouse or warehouses, are, shall, and are hereby authorised and required, to direct the floor or floors of such warehouse or warehouses, to be raised, in such manner as to them shall seem best. Secretaries fee. CHAP. VI. An Act, for the better regulating and collecting certain I. E it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Coun- To the Secretary. 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