Directors of

tal, how to

1

CHAP. LVI.

An act concerning the public hospital in the city of Williamsburg.

[Passed the 25th of December, 1788.]

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That lunatic hospi- from and after the passing of this act, a court of directors may at any time be holden for the public hospital, hold courts. in the city of Williamsburg, without the president, if he shall fail to attend, and the eldest member present shall act as president, pro tempore. Any director who shall remove to the distance of twenty miles, or upwards from the said city, shall be considered as having vacated his office. Vacancies in the court of directors Vacancies may be supplied by the executive. If upon the exhow supplied amination of any person charged with being a lunatic

or ideot, or otherwise insane, the said court shall be of opinion that he or she ought not to be confined, it shall be lawful for the said court, forthwith to discharge him or her. Every act coming within the pur view of this act, is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LVII.

An act appointing trustees for Philip Johnson, gentlemen, and his children.

[Passed the 25th of December, 1788.]

I. WHEREAS all the trustees appointed by the act Trustees for intituled "An act to vest certain lands whereof John Philip John Robinson, esquire, died seized in trust for Philip son and his Johnson, gentlemen, and his children in trustees for the purposes therein mentioned, are now dead, and Robert Carter Nicholas, esquire, deceased, is represented to have been the sole acting trustee: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That Benjamin Harrison,

children, ap pointed.

Samuel Griffin, John Walker, William Walker, and William Norvell, gentlemen, be appointed trustees, who, or a majority of whom, may and shall execute and perform all things remaing to be executed and performed by the trustees under the said act. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prejudice, or in any manner to affect the rights of the said trustees, or of their executors or administrators, or of any of them; but the same shall remain in the same condition as if this act had never been made.

CHAP. LVIII.

An act giving further time to the purchasers of lots in the town of Moorfield to build thereon.

[Passed the 23d of December, 1788]

lots in town

of Moorefield

I. WHEREAS the purchasers of lots in the town Further time of Moorfild, in the county of Hardy, from the difficulty to improve of procuring materials have not been able to build on their said lots within the time prescribed by law, Be it enacted, That the further time of three years, from and after the passing of this act, shall be allowed the purchasers of lots in the said town to build upon and save the same.

CHAP. LIX.

An act for establishing an inspection of tobacco on the lands of Abraham Shepherd, in the county of Berkeley.

[Passed the 29th of November, 1788.]

Mecklenburg warehouse,in

I. WHEREAS it is represented that the establish- Berkeley es ing of an inspection of tobacco on the lands of Abra- tablished.

ham Shepherd, near the town of Mecklenburg, on Potowmack river in the county of Berkeley, would be of public utility, and that the proprietor of the said land is willing to erect the houses necessary for that purpose at bis own expence: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That an inspection of tobacco shall be, and the same is hereby established on the lands of the said Abraham Shepherd, near the said town of Mecklenburg, in the county of Berkeley, to be called and known by the name of Mecklenburg warehouse.

II. The appointment of inspectors and all other regulations respecting the warehouse shall be the same as is provided for by law for other inspections, so far as the same do not contravene this act. All tobacco inspected at the said warehouse, shall be subject to the same duties and imposts, and be collected and accounted for by the inspectors, in the same manner, and under the like penalties as directed and prescribed by law for other warehouses.

III. There shall be allowed and paid annually to each of the inspectors at the said warehouse, the sum of thirty pounds for their salary: Provided always, That if the quantity of tobacco inspected at the said warehouse shall not be sufficient to pay the usual charges and the inspectors salaries, the deficiency shall not be paid by the public. The said Abraham Shepherd, shall, on or before the first day of May next, give bond with sufficient security, in the penalty of two thousand pounds, in the court of the said county, with condition that he will not build, or suffer to be built, any house with a fire place therein, within one hundred yards of the said warehouse.

Baird's town, in Nelson

county, Ken. tucky estab. lished.

CHAP. LX.

An act for establishing a town in the county of Nelson.

[Passed the 2d of December, 1788]

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That one hundred acres of land, lying at a place called Baird's town, in the county of Nelson, the property of

David Baird, and John C. Owing, to include the lots which may have been laid off, shall be, and the same are hereby vested in Isaac Morrison, Walter Beall, James Baird, John Reid, Andrew Hynes, Philip Philips, John Caldwell, Gabriel Cox, James Adams, James Morrison, and Michael Campbell, gentlemen, trustees, to be by them, or a majority of them, laid out into lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets, and established a town by the name of Baird's town; so soon as the said one hundred acres of land, shall be so laid off into lots and streets, the said trustees or a majority of them, shall proceed to sell the said lots at public auction, for the best price that can be had, the time and place of which sale, to be previously advertised for two months, at the respective courthouse doors of the counties of Jefferson and Nelson, the purchasers to hold the said lots respectively, subject to the condition of building on each, a dwelling house sixteen feet square at least, with a brick or stone chimney, to be finished fit for habitation, within three years from the day of sale, and the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall convey the said lots to the purchasers in fee, subject to the conditions aforesaid, and pay the money arising from the sale thereof, to the said David Baird, and John C. Owing, or their respective legal representatives. The said trustees, or the major part of them, shall have power from time to time, to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of the said lots, and establish such rules and orders for the regular building of houses thereon, as to them shall seem most convenient, and in case of the death, resignation, or other legal disability of any of the said trustees, it shall be lawful for the other trustees to supply such vacancy, and the trustees so elected, shall be vested with the same power and authority, as those particularly named in this act. The purchasers of the lots in the said town, so soon as they shall have built upon and saved the same according to the conditions of their respective deeds, shall then be entitled to, and have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities, which the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns in this state, not incorporated, hold and enjoy. If the purchaser of any lot shall fail to build thereon. within the time before limited, the said trustees, or a majority of them, may thereupon enter into such lot,

and sell the same again, and apply the money for the benefit of the said town: Provided always, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed or taken to interfere with, or affect the rights or claims of any person to lots in the said town, who have built or made improvements thereon, under agreements or contracts with the proprietors or their agents; nor shall such lots be sold by the said trustees.

rish in Ame

CHAP. LXI.

An act to empower the trustees of the parish of Nottoway, in the county of Amelia, to sell the glebe of the said parish, and to lay out the money in purchasing a more convenient glebe.

[Passed the 24th of December, 1788.]

1. WHEREAS it is represented to this present geTrustees of neral assembly, that the glebe lands in the parish of Nottoway pa Nottoway, in the county of Amelia, are for the most lia, authoris part worn out, and not stocked with timber sufficient ⚫d to sell to keep up the necessary repairs, and that the houses their glebe, thereon are in a ruinous situation, and that it would be and purchase very advantageous to the inhabitants of the said parish,

another.

if the trustees thereof were empowered to dispose of the said glebe, and to lay out the money arising from the sale thereof, in purchasing other lands for a glebe. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the said glebe lands, with the appurtenances be, and the same are hereby vested in the trustees of the said parish, in trust: Nevertheless, That the said trustees, or the greater part of them, shall by deed, or deeds of bargain and sale, sell and convey the said glebe, with the appurtenances, for the best price that can be got, to any person, or persons who shall be willing to purchase the same; to hold to such purchaser or purcha sers, his or their heirs and assigns forever.