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statements of payments to V. States.

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baths in rela

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ted States' certificates.

One third of

treasury of the United States, once in every month, state of all sums paid by him on account of the United States to their commissioner of the loan-office, or to such other person or persons as may be duly authorised to receive the same, expressing the dates and amounts of the respective payments, and distinguishing the sums paid in actual money, from those paid in indents. And whereas congress have directed every commissioner of the continental loan-office, previously to settling and issuing certificates as aforesaid for the interest due on certificates of liquidated debts, other than loan-office certificates, to administer an oath or affirmation, or require a certificate by one of the persons whom the state in which the commissioner resides, shall in the legislative act complying with the requisition aforesaid of the second of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, appoint, that he has administered to the owner or possessor of every such certificate an oath or affirmation, that the same is bona fide the property of the particular state in which the said commissioner resides; or of a citizen or citizens of the said state; or of some corporate body or charitable institution within the same; or of some person who is not a citizen of any of the United States; describing the certificates alluded to in every such oath or information, in such manner as shall be necessary to indentify the same, and it becomes therefore neces sary to authorise certain persons to administer such oath or affirmation in this state:

VII. Be it therefore enacted, That every justice of the peace within this commonwealth, shall be, and is hereby authorised and empowered, to administer such oath or affirmation, and to give a certificate thereof according to a form which the commissioner of the continental loan-office in this state shall prescribe, and publish six weeks successively in the public newspapers of this state.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That every person taxes payable chargeable with the revenue tax, for one thousand sein U. States' ven hundred and eighty-six, under the act "To amend certificates. and reduce the several acts for ascertaining certain taxes and duties, and for establishing a permanent revenue, into one act, may pay, as heretofore, one third part of such taxes in certificates granted by the commissioner of continental loans in any of the United

States for the interest due upon the loan-office certificates, or upon other certificates of the liquidated debts of the United States; and every sheriff or collector upon payment thereof into the public treasury, shall be allowed a discount for all such interest certificates so by him collected. Provided always, That the amount thereof shall not exceed one third part of the taxes by him collected.

IX. And be it further enacted, That one half the Appropria. money arising from the tax on slaves shall, as hereto- tion of slave fore, be applied to the payment of the interest due on tax, and du. the certificates issued to the army and navy of this state co and goods. for their arrears of pay and depreciation. The duty of four shillings per hog-head on tobacco exported shall also, as heretofore, be applied in aid of the said half of the slave tax; and the duties on enumerated articles shall, as heretofore, be appropriated to the same purposes, and the money paid into the fund hereby established for the payment of the interest on the military debt, in the course of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, shall be subject to the discharge of all warrants heretofore issued, or which may be issued in the course of the said year, for interest on the said debt. And whereas the situation of public affairs renders it impracticable to pay any part of the principal of the certificates granted to the army and navy for their arrears of pay and depreciation, and it is judged absolutely necessary for the support of public credit that the fullest assurance should be given for the punctual payment of the interest of those certificates;

X. Be it therefore enacted, That if the money arising from half the slave tax for the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six, which was distrainable for on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, and from the duty of four shillings per hogshead on tobacco exported, and the duties above appropriated in aid of the said tax and duty, shall prove inadequate to the payment of such interest, such deficiency shall be supplied out of the general fund; and if there should be any surplus arising in the said fund, over and above the payment of the warrants heretofore issued, or which may hereafter issue in the course of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, for the said interest, all such

Interest on certificates to be paid.

Revenue of land office appropriated.

Of law pro

cess.

surplus shall be applied in aid of the general fund;
which interest warrants on military certificates shall be
receivable in all taxes whatsoever, except the taxes on
law process.
And whereas ten thousand pounds have
been applied to the purchase of arms and ammunition,
agreeably to an act, intituled " An act for the purchase
of arms and ammunition for the defence of the state,"
passed in October, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty four, to the reimbursement of which the money
arising from the land office hath been heretofore ap-
propriated;

XI. Be it enacted, That the money arising from the said office, after reimbursing the said ten thousand pounds, shall be applied in aid of the general fund.

XII. And be it further enacted, That the tax on law process and alienations shall be appropriated, as heretofore, to the payment of the debts due from this state to foreign creditors, together with the two and an half per centum on merchandise imported, until the warrants for eighty thousand pounds directed to be issued in favor of the said creditors, by the act passed at the last session of assembly, intituled "An act to amend the act, intituled an act to amend and reduce the several acts of assembly for appropriating the public revenue, into one act." shall be compleatly redeemed: And in further aid of this fund, shall be applied the balance which may yet be due on account of the sale of the Gosport Appropria- lands.

tion of reve. nue boats.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That two thousand pounds, arising from the tonnage on vessels, shall be appropriated to defraying the charges of the boats Liberty and Patriot, under the direction of the executive; and the surplus thereof, after making good the votes of the present session, applied in aid of the general fund.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer be authorised and directed to make good, as heretofore, the subscription to the Potowmack and James river companies on behalf of the state, as the several dividends may be applied for from time to time, by the preident and directors of the said companies, out of the surplus of any public monies arising under the several laws for the inspection of tobacco; and after de

fraying this charge, shall be applied in aid of the general fund.

XV. And be it further enacted, That a sum not ex- Lunatic hos ceeding six hundred pounds out of the contingent Pital. fund, shall be set apart for the purposes of the public hospital in the city of Williamsburg, upon warrants from the auditor under order of the executive, on application of the board of directors.

XVI. And be it further enacted, That the additional Ad valorem duty of two per centum ad valorem, imposed by an act duties appro.

of this present assembly, shall be applied in the follow- priated."
ing manner: In the first instance to the defraying the
expences of the delegates representing this state in con-
gress, and in the next place, to the payment of the six
thousand pounds voted by the general assembly to-
wards the compleating of the capitol in the city of
Richmond; and the surplus, if any, shall be applied in
aid of the funds appropriated to the payment of the re-
quisition of congress, of the second of August, one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.

Arrearages

XVII. And be it enacted, That all arrearages of the taxes of former years shall be applied according to the of taxes. laws appropriating the same; any thing in this act to

the contrary notwithstanding.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all monies Generalfund. not specially appropriated by this act, shall be applied in aid of the general fund.

XIX. And be it further enacted, That the executive be empowered and required, to direct the treasurer in the mode of selling the tobacco paid for taxes, under an act, intituled "An act to enable the citizens of this commonwealth to discharge certain taxes by the payment of tobacco."

CHAP. XLIV.

An act to revive the act for calling in and funding the paper money of

this state.

Act for call

money revi

BE it enacted, That the act of assembly, intituled ing in paper
An act for calling in and funding the paper money ved
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VOL. XII.

Not to pur chase land warrants.

of this state," which hath expired, shall be, and the same is hereby revived; and shall continue and be in force from and after the passing of this act, for and during the term of fifteen months. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend to so much of the aforesaid act, as respects the purchase of warrants for unappropriated lands.

CHAP. XLV.

An act for putting into immediate operation An act intituled an act empowering one of the privy council to officiate in certain cases as lieutenant governor.

Act empow ering one of the privy BE it enacted, That the act intituled "An act emcouncil to of powering one of the privy council to officiate in certain ficiate as licu- cases as lieutenant governor," the operation whereof tenant gover is suspended until the first day of January next, shall to immediate commence and be in force from and after the passing operation. of this act.

nor, to go in

CHAP. XLVI.

[Altered from Rev.

ch. LXVI.]

Bills of 1779, An act concerning treasons, felonies, and other offences committed out of the jurisdiction of this common

Crimes com

mitted out of
jorisdiction
of this com-

wealth.

BE it enacted, That all high treasons, misprisions, and concealments of high treasons and other offences, monwealth, except piracies and felonies on the high seas, commitwhere tried. ted by any citizen of this commonwealth, in any place

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