CHAP. XXX.

An act to suspend in part the operation of the laws "Concerning escheats and forfeitures from British subjects.

Ch. CXXV in original.

1. WHEREAS it is represented to this general as sembly, that James Buchanan, late of the town of Fal- Buchanan, mouth, in the county of Stafford, merchant, was seized in Falmouth, in fee simple of and in two improved lots in the said town; that in the year one thousand seven hun dred and seventy-seven, the said James Buchanan died intestate, and without issue, his heir at law being subject of Great Britain, whereby the said lots besaid at came escheatable to the commonwealth; that Anne Buchanan, the widow of the said James Buchanan, y phil, farzan was at the time of his death, and yet continues in a very infirm state, both of body and mind, and that the administration of the said James Buchanan's estate was granted by the court of the said county of Stafford, to Mr. Isaac Hite of Frederick county, who has pro ceeded in part to execute the trust committed to him, but not having made a final settlement of his accounts, it remains uncertain whether the personal estate of the and it being reasonable that the widow should be supported out of the estate of her deceased husband, and that his just debts should be paid:

deceased, will be sufficient to pay his debts supported

ebts $ II. Be it enacted, That the several laws concerning Lots may be escheats and forfeitures from British subjects, so far soal estate sold, if per as the same respect the said lots, shall be suspended insufficient during the life of the said Anne Buchanan; and that for payment the said lots shall be vested in the said Isaac Hite and of debts. his heirs, for the use of the said Anne Buchanan, du

ring her life. Provided always, That the said Isaac Hite or his heirs, shall be authorized and empowered, in case the personal estate of the said James Buchanan shall prove insufficient to pay his debts, to sell so much of the said lots as shall be sufficient for that pur pose, and to convey the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, in fee simple; saving to all persons, hodies politic and corporate (other than this common

red wealth, or the heirs of the said James Buchanan, (being British subjects) all their right and title to the said lots, and to every part of them.

houses or parts of houses for widening and extending the said streets, before the first day of May, one thouJurisdiction sand seven hundred and ninety: That the court of hushustings of tings in the said borough shall have jurisdiction of all Norfolk in criminal cases arising within the said borough, in as criminal ca full and ample manner as the county courts.

VAVIII. And be it further enacted, That five acres of Certain lots land adjoining the borough of Winchester, the proper of Thomas ty of Thomas Edmondson, shall be, and the same are Edmondson, hereby annexed to the said borough, and shall be laid annexed t off into lots of half an acre each, and sold and convey ed by the said Thomas Edmondson, subject to the rules, orders, regulations and laws of the corporation of the town of Winchester.

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chester.

Court day of hustings court of A lexandria altered.

[Chapter CXXVII in original I

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CHAP. XXXII.

An act to appoint persons to convey certain lands to Edwin Gray, and for other purposes.

Certain per I. WHEREAS by an act of general assembly, ed to convey passed under the former government, trustees were ap land to Ed pointed and empowered, together with the Nottoway win Gray, Indian chiefs, to sell and convey all the lands belong purchased at ing to that tribe of Indians, lying on the north side of sale ofthe Nottoway river. That at a sale of the said lands EdNottowayin. win Gray became the purchaser of thirty acres, which remained after laying off a certain number of lots, and for which no conveyance was executed before the death of the trustees. And the said Edwin Gray hath made

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III. Be it therefore enacted, That the said John Additional Thomas Blow, Henry Westbrooke, and Thomas Ed- trustees ape munds, shall be, and they are hereby appointed, trus pointed to tees also for receiving annually the said rents, and lay- lands of Not ing out the same, for the benefit of the said Indians, toway Indi That upon the death of any of the said trustees, the ans. court of the said county of Southampton shall have power, and they are hereby required to appoint others, who shall have the same powers, in collecting and laying out the said rents, as those particularly named in this act

CHAP. XXXIII,

LWHEREAS by the laws of this commonwealth, Preamble no entry for vacant and unappropriated lands can be made with any person except the principal surveyor of the county in which such vacant and unappropria ted land lies, and in many of the counties on the east