governor;

Councillors,

CHAP. XLVI.

An act giving salaries to certain officers of government.

BE it enacted, That the several officers herein after mentioned shall, for their respective services, be entitled to the following salaries, to be paid out of the publick treasury in quarterly payments, after the same shall have been audited according to law.

Salaries of To the governour or chief magistrate of this commonwealth the sum of four thousand five hundred pounds per annum. To the members of the privy council the sum of seven thousand two hundred pounds per annum, to be divided amongst them, agreeable to their attendance on the duties of their office. To the treasurer of this commonwealth the sum of three thousand pounds per annum. To each auditor of publick accounts the sum of fifteen hundred pounds per annum, Members of To the members of the board of war the sum of fifteen

Treasurer, Auditors,

board of war, hundred pounds per annum, each. To the members

Of trade,

Judges,

of the board of trade the sum of two thousand pounds per annum each. To the judges of the high court of chancery, the general court, and the court of admiralty, each for their services, in their respective offices, as well as in the court of appeals the sum of twelve hundred pounds per annum. To the attorney general the sun of twelve hundred pounds per annum. the clerks of the board of war and trade each, the sum Clerks of of eight hundred pounds per annum. To the clerk of board of war the privy council the sum of eight hundred pounds

Attorney general.

and trade.

Judges of superior courts au

per annum.

Τα

The judges of the superiour courts shall make such allowances from time to time to their respective offithorised to cers, as they shall think reasonable, taking into acmake allow- count the time past for which no allowance hath been made by the assembly, which allowances when made, their officers and audited, shall be paid by the treasurer out of any publick money in his hands.

ances to

CHAP. XLVII.*

An act to displace the trustees of the town of Staunton, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

town of Staunton displaced:

How others

To repair streets, and

construct a

queducts.

BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Trustees of present trustees for the town of Staunton in the county of Augusta, are hereby displaced; and the sheriff of the said county shall on the tenth day of August next, proceed to take a poll for electing five trustees for the said town in manner directed by an act entitled "An elected. act to empower the freeholders of the several towns not incorporated, to supply the vacancies of the trustees and directors thereof;" the trustees so elected shall Their powhave all the powers given by the several acts of assem- ers. bly for establishing the town of Staunton and appointing trustees, heretofore passed, and shall also have power, from time to time, as they may see occasion, to contract with any person or persons for repairing the streets of the said town, and constructing and fixing proper aqueducts for conveying water to the several inhabitants thereof, in such manner and places as they may judge most convenient and necessary. The said trustees or the major part of them, shall moreover have taxes on the power to levy and assess annually on the freeholders inhabitants. and inhabitants of the said town, to enable them to comply with such contracts, a tax not exceeding twenty four shillings for every tithable person, and to appoint one or more collector or collectors of the said tax. If any person on whom such tax shall be assessed, shall neglect or refuse to pay the same at the collected. time appointed for the payment thereof, it shall be lawful for such collector to levy the same by distress and sale of such delinquent's goods, in the same manner as is directed by law in case of the non-payment

To assess

How taxes

of publick and county levies. The collector of the Collector to .said tax, before he undertakes the same, shall give bond give bond. and security in a reasonable penalty, payable to the trustees for the due collection and payment thereof, and in case of failure shall be liable in the same manner as the collectors of the county and parish levies are by law made liable. The trustees or either of

in town.

them neglecting or refusing to apply the said taxes, Penalty for when collected, to the purposes aforesaid, shall forfeit misapplica and tion of taxes pay the sum of five hundred pounds to the inform er, to be recovered with costs in any court of record upon motion, provided he or they have ten days previous notice thereof in writing. It shall not be lawHogs not to ful for any person or persons inhabitants of the said run at large town, owners of any swine, to suffer the same to go at large in the limits thereof: And if any swine belonging to an inhabitant of the said town shall after the first day of December next, be found running or going at large within the said limits, it shall be lawful for any person whatever to kill and destroy every such swine. Provided that such person shall not convert any such swine to his or her own use, but shall leave the same where it shall be so killed, and give immediate notice to the owner thereof, if known, and if not, then such person shall immediately inform the next justice of the peace, who may order the same to the use of any poor person or persons he shall think fit. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to hinder any person or persons from driving any swine to or through the said town, or limits thereof, in order to sell the same, or in their removal from one plantation to another.

Proviso.

Certain per Bons authorised to con. vey to John Fox certain entailedland sold by trus tees as the

estate of Sa

rah, the wife

of John Rootes.

CHAP. XLVIII.

An act empowering certain persons to convey the land whereof Sarah the wife of John Rootes was seized, to the purchaser in fee simple.

WHEREAS by an act of general assembly enti». tled "An act to dock the entail of five hundred and fifty acres of land, in the county of Gloucester, whereof Sarah the wife of John Rootes, gentleman, is seized, and for vesting the same in trustees for the purposes therein mentioned," it was, amongst other things,

enacted that the said five hundred and fifty acres of land, with the appurtenances, should be, and the same were thereby vested in the honourable John Page, esq; and Thomas Whiting, Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester, Francis Whiting, and Roger Dixon, gentlemeri, in trust, that they the said trustees, or the survivers, or surviver of them should cause the same to be sold at · publick sale, for the best price that could be got for the same, and upon payment of the purchase money, the said trustees or any three of them should seal and deliver a deed or deeds indented for the conveyance of the fee simple estate and inheritance of the said land, to the purchaser or purchasers who should for ever hold and enjoy the same, freed and discharged from the limitations of the will of Edmund Gwynn, deceased, as by reference to the said act may more fully appear. And whereas the said tract of land was exposed to publick sale by the said trustees, and John Fox of the county of Gloucester became purchaser thereof, for the sum of nine hundred and fifty pounds being the best price that could be got for the same, which hath been since bona fide paid to the said trustees by the said John Fox; but no deed of conveyance hath as yet been executed, nor can one be now made for the same under the said act; all the said trustees being dead, except the said Thomas Whiting.

Be it enacted, That the said Thomas Whiting, Sir John Peyton, John Whiting, George Green, and James Nutall, jun. or any three of them, shall be, and are hereby empowered to seal and deliver a deed or deeds indented for the conveyance of the fee simple estate and inheritance of the said tract of land to the said John Fox, in the same manner as the said trustees might have done by virtue of the said act, and thereupon the said John Fox shall for ever hold and enjoy the same in fee simple,

Act appointing naval officers, fur

ther contin

ued.

•CHAP. XLIX.

An act for continuing an act entitled An act for appointing naval officers, and ascertaining their fees.

WHEREAS the act of assembly passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six entitled "An act for the appointment of naval officers and ascertaining their fees" will expire at the end of this present session of assembly, and it is expedient the same should be continued: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the said recited act shall continue and be in force from and after the expiration thereof for one year, and from thence to the end of the next session of assembly; and the several naval officers shall demand and receive the following fees, in lieu of the fees established by the said recited act, to wit: For Their fees. entering or clearing any ship or vessel of one hundred tons and under, six dollars; for entering or clearing any ship or vessel of more than one hundred tons, fifteen dollars; for taking a bond, two and a half dollars; for a permit, two and a half dollars; for a bill of health, two and a half dollars; for a bill of stores, two and a half dollars; for a certificate, two and a half dollars; for a register and recording the same, ten dollars; for a copy thereof or making an endorsement thereupon, five dollars; for a copy of a manifest, three dollars; for a passport in conformity to the twenty seventh article of the treaty of alliance between his most Christian Majesty and the United States of America, ten dollars. All which fees shall be paid in current money of this commonwealth.

Masters of

And be it farther enacted, That the master or comvessels when mander of every ship or vessel, shall, within forty eight to report. hours after his arrival in port, make report of his vessel and cargo to the naval officer of the district wherein the said vessel rides; and every master or commander of any ship or vessel failing herein, shall forfeit his said vessel and cargo; and any master or commander of any ship or vessel, breaking bulk or disposing of any part of the cargo without obtaining a permit from