goods not paid for

bandi, on whom.

ware-house, or store-house, to search for, seize, and carry away, any wine, spirits, salt, hemp, cordage, snuff, beer, ale, or porter, liable to a duty by this act, and for which the said duty shall not have been paid or secured to be paid as aforesaid; and if any collector, clerk, or constable, shall be sued or molested for any thing done in execution of the powers hereby given them, such collector, clerk, or constable, may plead the general issue, and give this act in evidence; and if io such suit the plaintiff be non-suited, or judgment pass against him, the defendant shall recover double costs; and in all actions, suits, or informations to be brought, or where any seizure shall be made pursuant Omus pro to this act, if the property thereof be claimed by any person as the owner or importer thereof, in such case the onus probandi shall lie upon the owner or claimer. VII. And be it further enacted, That when any wine, ters of yes Spirits, salt, hemp, cordage, snuff, beer, ale, or porter, sels may se shall be consigned to any person, other than the mascure the du- ter or owner of the ship or vessel importing the same, ty of goods every person to whom such articles shall be consigned, shall, upon the importation thereof, pay to the master or owner of the ship or vessel importing the same, the duty payable for such articles by this act; and if any person or persons to whom such articles shall be consigned as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to pay the said duties, or give bond with security for the payment thereof, to the master or owner of the ship or vessel importing the same, at such time as the same shall become payable, it shall and may be lawful for the mas *ster or owner of such ship or vessel to detain such articles until the duty shall be paid, or secured to be paid,

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imported by others.

as aforesaid.

Proceeding VIII. And be it further enacted, That if any impor where im ter of any of the goods, wares, or merchandize aforeportedgoods said, shall desire to transport the same from one dis

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one districtct to another, within this commonwealth, he shall

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before he depart out of the district where such articles, →shall be laden or taken on board, make oath before a justice of the peace that the same were legally imported, and the duties secured according to law, and that he will not suffer any other goods to be taken on board his vessel; and the justice will give him a certificate, thereof, specifying the marks and numbers of the said goods; and if any other goods shall be found on board

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Gun factory, Freder ksburg, veted in

CHAP. IX.

An act to vest the gun-factory and public lands at Fredericksburg, in trustees for the purposes of an aca demy.

1. WHEREAS all institutions for the education of youth, and the advancement of science, have particular claim to the encouragement and patronage of the letrisees, for gislature; and it is represented to this present general an ademy, assembly, that the gun-factory at Fredericksburg, and the lands belonging to the public thereto adjoining, will, if converted to the purposes of an academy for tre education of youth, and particularly of those whose indgence of situation will otherwise deprive them of that advantage, be of great public utility;

trustees, to

1. Be it therefore enacted, That the said gun-fac tory and the lands thereto adjoining belonging to the public, together with all the buildings and appurtenan ces thereon, be, and the same are hereby vested in Richard Henry Lee, Henry Lee, junior, Joseph Jones, John Skinter, William Fitzhugh, Charles Carter, Ed ward Stevens French Strother, William Moore, Thomas Towles, Maun Page, Edmund Pendleton, and Thomas Lomax trustees, and their successors forever, to be by them, of any seven or more of them, applied for the purposes of establishing thereon an academy and fitting the same for the education and instruction

youth. That the said trustees and their successors Power of have power to open subscriptions to raise a fund for raise funds, the establishment and support of the said academy and appoint and from time to time, to continue the same as shall be teachers.

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found necessary, and to maintain suits at law for the recovery thereof. That the said trustees, or any seven or more of them, be empowered, from time to time, to appoint a rector, masters, ushers, and other necessary attendants to the said academy; sebject, nevertheless, to be displaced at the discretion of the said trustees, for neglect of duty or other misconduct.

Further pow III. And be it further enacted, That the said tras tees, and their successors, are hereby declared and ap pointed directors and visiters of the said academy, with

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