Vacancies, how supplied Other offi. IV. And be it further enacted, That the president, wardens, and directors, or any seven of them, upon the death, resignation, or failure to attend (being thereof previously notified) for two meetings successively, shall have power and authority to nominate and appoint a sufficient number of members to supply the places of those so dead, resigned, or failing to attend. To nominate and appoint a treasurer, secretary, and steward, to which several offices they may annex such salaries as to them shall appear equitable cers, how apand right, who shall respectively be subject to a repointed. moval from office at the discretion of the corporation, for any abuse or neglect of duty; provided that the treasurer, previous to his entering on the duties of the said office, shall give bond, with security to be approved by the corporation, in the penalty of three thousand pounds, for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in him, and shall, whenever thereunto required, render on oath, a just and true account of all monies and donations of every kind, which have come to his hands by virtue of his said office, and also of all expenditures for or to the use of the said seminary, and on failure so to do, shall be subject to a judgment, on motion in any court of record in this commonwealth; and execution may thereupon be awarded, in like manner as against sheriffs for the non-payment of public taxes in their hands. CHAP. XC. An act directing the sale of certain lands, late the property of John Mills, deceased, for the payment of his debts. I. WHEREAS John Mills, late of the county of Lands of John Fairfax, in the year one thousand seven hundred and Mills, dec'd, eighty-three, died intestate, seized and possessed of a considerable real and personal estate, the former, by his debts. to be sold for payment of the operation of the laws of escheat and forfeiture, is escheatable to the commonwealth, and the personal estate has been sold by the administrators of the said John Mills, which will prove greatly insufficient for the payment of his debts: And whereas James Mills, late of the county of Middlesex, deceased, by bis will devised to the said John Mills, a part of his outstanding debts, after several legacies, to a considerable amount, were previously paid; and there being no prospect of the creditors of the said John Mills deriving any benefit for a considerable time, if ever, from the said devise, they have made application to this assembly to direct the sale of the lands of the said John Mills, which are escheatable to the commonwealth, and the money arising from such sale to be applied towards the payment of their debts: 11. Be it therefore enacted, That the lands whereof the said John Mills died seized, and are escheatable to the commonwealth, shall be sold by his administrators, or the survivors or survivor of them, on credit not exceeding eighteen months, for the best price that can be had, and by them conveyed to the purchaser or purchasers in fee, and the money arising from such sales to be applied by the said administrators to the payment of the just debts of the said John Mills to his creditors, in equal proportions to the debts due them. And the said administrators, so soon as they shall receive the legacy, or any part thereof, devised to the said John Mills by the will of the said James Mills, after paying the just debts of the said John Mills, shall pay the same, or so much thereof, as shall be equal to the sum arising from the sale of the said lands, into the public treasury, after deducting a rea sonable allowance for their expences and trouble. CHAP. XCI. An act for regulating the streets in and adjoining to the town of Alexandria. I. WHEREAS it will tend greatly to the ornament of the town of Alexandria, as well as the convenience and health of the inhabitants thereof, if the streets of the said town were laid off and extended in a regular and uniform manner; Streets in lated. II. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That a district round the said town, bounded as fol- and adjoining loweth, viz: Beginning at Great Hunting creek, and town of Alex. running thence parallel with Fairfax-street, to Four- a dria, regu Mile run or creek, so as to intersect King-street (when extended) one mile west from the court-house; thence eastwardly down the said creek or run to its confluence with Potowmack river, thence southwardly down the said river, to the mouth of Great-Hunting creek, thence westwardly up the said creek to the beginning, shall be subject to the regulations herein after-mentioned, whensoever the proprietors of land within the aforesaid district shall, respectively, incline to lay out the same in town lots for the purpose of building thereupon, that is to say, the streets within the original plan of the said town, and which run westwardly from the river, and also the streets laid off by John Alexander and his executors, parallel therewith, shall be extended to the line which makes the western boundary, and be of the same width in every part, except Franklin-street, which shall be only fifty feet wide in that part thereof lying eastward of Union street. The streets hereafter to be laid off on the south side of Franklin-street, and the north side of Oronoko-street, and running westwardly within the said limits, shall be parallel with the lastmentioned street, be of the width of sixty-six feet in every part, and extend from the river Potowmack to the aforesaid western boundary. streets within the original plan of the town, and which run up and down the river, shall be severally extended of the same width southwardly to Potowmack river or Great-Hunting creek, as the case may be, and The northwardly, to Potowmack river or Four-Mile run, as the case may require. All the streets hereafter to be laid off on the west-side of Washington-street, shall be parallel with Fairfax-street, and not less than sixtysix feet wide in every part, nor more than sixty-six feet wide in any part, without the consent of the proprietors of the land, first had and obtained, and shall be extended southwardly to Great-Hunting creek, and northwardly to Potowmack river or Four-Mile run. The streets running westwardly from Potowmack river shall be at the distance of three hundred and fifty-three feet two inches, and the streets running parallel with Fairfax-street, shall be distant from each other two hundred and forty-six feet ten inches, so that each square to be built upon and improved, shall contain two acres of land. The street called Washington street shall be one hundred feet wide in every part, and be extended northwardly and southwardly to the limits of the aforesaid district, except that part of the said street already laid out sixty-six feet wide, which shall continue of that width, unless the mayor and commonalty of the said town choose to widen the same to one hundred feet, in which case they shall, on or before the first day of April next, cause the damages or inju ry which any person or persons may in any manner sustain in their property by the widening of the said street, to be ascertained and valued by a jury of twelve good and lawful men, upon oath, to be empannelled by the sheriff of Fairfax county, and the amount of such damages, or injury, assessed as aforesaid, to be levied on the property within the limits of the corporation, and shall pay the amount to the several persons entitled thereto, in the following manner, viz. One half on or before the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and the remainder on or before the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. Provided, That the church and burying ground vested in the minister and vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Fairfax parish, shall not in any manner be affected by the extension of Cameron-street. CHAP. XCII. An act to repeal the act of assembly for establishing the town of Walker ton. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Act establisaing town of act of assembly for establishing the town of Walkerton, Walkerton, in the county of King and Queen, shall be, and the in county of same is hereby repealed. That forty acres of land, King& Queen which were by deed bearing date the thirteenth day of repealed. June, one thousand seven hundred and nine, given and granted by John Walker, deceased, for the use of the inhabitants of the said town, as a common, shall be, and the same are hereby revested in the legal representatives of the said John Walker in fee: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right of any person to a lot or part of a lot in the said place, or to discontinue the public road to, or ferry across, Mattapony river from the said town. CHAP. XCIII. An act for vesting the estate of John tain purposes. Estate of who was exe. I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the whole estate, both real and personal, of John Ty- John Tyler, ler, who was convicted of murder at the session of the cuted for general court in December last, and executed accord- murder, how ingly, be, and the same is hereby vested in William Al- disposed of. exander, James Gwatkins, and Valentine Peyton, trustees, for the following uses, that is to say: that they, or any two of them, shall sell the same, having given notice thereof for one month in the Virginia Gazette, upon twelve months credit, taking bond and good security |