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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Begun and held at the Public Build- Benjamin ings in the City of Richmond, on governor. Monday the third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and in the eighth year of the commonwealth.

CHAP. I.

An act for further continuing an act intituled, An act to ascertain the losses and injuries sustained from the depredations of the enemy within this commonwealth.

See May

1782, ch. 10.

Act to ascer

I. WHEREAS the act of assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, in- tain losses tituled, "An act to ascertain the losses and injuries sus- by depredatained from the depredations of the enemy within this tions of the commonwealth," which was continued by several sub enemy, fursequent acts, will expire at the end of the present session ed. of assembly, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued;

11. Be it therefore enacted, That the act, intituled, "An act to ascertain the losses and injuries sustained from the depredations of the enemy within this commonwealth," shall continue and be in force, from and after the expiration thereof, nntil the end of the next. session of assembly, and no longer.

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See October 1782, ch. 21.

CHAP. II.

An act for further continuing an act, intituled, an act concerning pen

sioners.

L. WHEREAS the act of assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, inAct concern, tituled, "An act concerning pensioners," which was ing pension continued by several subsequent acts, will expire at the end of the present session of assembly, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued;

ers, further continued.

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the act, intituled, "An act concerning pensioners," shall continue and be in force from and after the expiration thereof, until the end of the next session of assembly, and no longer.

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CHAP. III.

An act to confirm to Anne and Margaret Rose their freedom and interest under the will of Walter Robertson, deceased.

I. WHEREAS Walter Robertson, late of Halifax county, being possessed of a negro woman, named Anne Rose and her child, named Margaret Rose, did, by his last will and testament, direct, that the said Anne Rose, slaves Rose, for her long and faithful services, should immeRobertson, diately on his death be put into possession of all his real emancipated and personal estate, for the use and benefit of the said and all his es Anne and her daughter Margaret, thereby manifesting his intention that they should be no longer subject to greeably to bondage. And whereas the said Anne Rose and Margaret Rose have petitioned this assembly that an act may pass for securing to them their freedom, and the enjoyment of the estate left them by the said Walter Robertson;

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H. Be it therefore enacted, That the said negro woman Anne Rose, and her child Margaret Rose, shall, and they are hereby declared to be free, and may enjoy all such rights, privileges, and immunities, as free negroes or mulattoes by the laws of this country do or may enjoy; and moreover, that the said Anne Rose and Margaret Rose shall, and they are hereby declared to be capable of taking, holding, and disposing of all such estate, real and personal, as the said Walter Robertson, by his will and testament as aforesaid, hath devised or bequeathed to them, or for their use. Saving to all and every other person, his or their heirs, execu-i tors and administrators (except those claiming under the said Walter Robertson) any right, title, or claim, they may have to the said negroes, as if this act had never been made.

CHAP. IV.

An act to establish a town on the land of Francis Conway, in the county of King George.

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1. WHEREAS it is represented to this present gen- Port Con eral assembly, that Francis Conway hath laid out ten way, in King acres of his land, lying on Rappahnnock river, in the George county of King George, into half acre lots, with con- tablished. venient streets; and application being made to establish

a fown thereon,

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the said lots so laid off (except one already sold by the said Francis Conway, to John Gravett and William Shropshire) shall be, and the same are hereby vested in John Skinker, George Fitzhugh, Alexander Rose, Thomas Berry, and John Berry, gentlemen, trustees, and established a town by the name of Port Conway; the said trustees, or any three 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 shall be previously advertised for one month in the Virginia Gazette; the purchasers to hold the said lots respectively, subject to the

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condition of building on each of the said lots a dwelling house, twenty feet square at least, with a brick chimney, to be finished fit for habitation within three years from the day of sale; and the said trustees, or any three of them, shall, and they are hereby empowered, to convey the said lots to the purchasers thereof in fee simple, subject to the condition aforesaid, and pay the money arising from the sale thereof to the said Francis Conway, or his legal representative; the said trustees, or any three of them, shall have power from time to time to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of the lots, and to establish such rules and orders for the regular building of houses thereon, as to them shall seem best and most convenient; and that in case of the death, removal out of the county, or other legal disability, of any one or more of the said trustees, it shall and may be lawful for the surviving or remaining trustees, to elect and choose so many other persons in the room of those dead or disabled, as shall make up the number; which trustees so elected, shall be vested with the same power and authority as those particularly named in this act. That the purchasers of the lots in the said town, so soon as they shall have built upon and saved the same according to their respective deeds of conveyance, shall then be entitled to, and have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities, which the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns 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 the major part of them, may thereupon enter into such lot, and sell the same again, and apply the money for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said town.