ready appropriated, and as much of the unappropriated two-tenths, as may be sufficient.

CHAP. XXX.

An act to prevent the counterfeiting certain certificates and warrants.

[Ch. LXIX in original.]

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I BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That if any person within this commonwealth shall forge or counterfeit, alter or e erase, any certificate or warrant is sued or to be issued by any person or persons authorized gress, or this for that purpose, either by the congress of the United state, death States or the legislature of this state, for the payment of money, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, or shall demand payment thereof, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, altered or erased, or shall transfer any such certificate or warrant, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erased, or shall forge or counterfeit, alter or erase, any certificate whatever for the purpose of obtaining a settlement of money from any person or persons authorized for that purpose, either by the congress of the United States or the legislature of this state, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, or shall require settlement thereon, or transfer the same, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or erased; he or she so offending, and thereof legally convicted, shall suffer death without benefit of clergy, Alland every act or acts of assembly made to prevent the counterfeiting of certificates, are hereby repealed...

Ch. LXX in fa original.

CHAP. XXXI.

An act giving further powers to the directors of the public buildings.

1. WHEREAS it hath been represented to the general assembly, by the directors of the public buildings, that apartments can be provided for the use of the legislative, executive, and judiciary, to greater advantage, and with less expense, by uniting them under one roof, than by erecting separate houses;

II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That it public build- shall be in the discretion of the said directors to cause ings authorised to provide apartmenss to be provided for the uses aforesaid under one and the same roof; any law to, the contrary notfor legisla withstanding. And whereas it is represented to the tive and judi- general assembly, that two of the directors heretofore ciary, in the appointed by law are dead, and it is necessary that such capitol, in-vacancy should be supplied;

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stead of e, III. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, recting separ That Jaquelin Ambler and William Hay, gentlemen, shall, and they are hereby appointed directors of the Jaquelin Am- said public buildings, with the same powers that by Hay appoint- law are given to the directors of the said public builded directors. ings.

An act to amend an act, intituled An act directing the sale of certain public lands, and for other purposes.

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Preamble. 1. WHEREAS the commissioners appointed by an act, intituled "An act directing the sale of certain public lands, and for other purposes," have found it difficult to procure a meeting of a sufficient number to carry the said act into effect, by reason whereof the said lands have not been sold as by the said act is directed: For remedy whereof,

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II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That Public lands, the public lands called and known by the name of Gos- called Gosport, annexport, shall be, and the same are hereby annexed to the ed to town of town of Portsmouth; and the governor, with advice of Portsmouth. council, shall be, and he is hereby empowered and directed to appoint three or more commissioners, who Commissionshall lay off the said fand into lots not exceeding at ers, how appointed quarter of an acre each, with convenient streets, and To lay off inas nearly parallel to the streets in the said town of to lots and Portsmouth as the situation of the place will conveni- streets. ently admit. And the said commissioners so appointed, are hereby authorized and required to make sale of the said lots, or so many thereof, as the governor, with advice of council, may direct, in manner and on the conditions herein after prescribed. The said commissioners shall give previous notice of such sale at least sixty days in the Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania Gazettes, and shall dispose of the same by public sale on the premises, to the highest bidder, on the day appointed (if fair, and if not, the next fair day) for: twelve months credit, taking bond with two sufficient securities for the payment thereof; which bonds, if not on credit. paid when due, shall be recoverable in any court of re cord within this commonwealth, on motion of the solicitor, or other person appointed by the executive for that purpose, provided notice of such motion be given in the public news-papers at least three weeks previous to such motion. The governor, with advice of his council, may authorize and appoint the said commissioners who conduct the sale of the said lands, or any other person or persons on behalf of the commonwealth, to convey to the purchasers thereof an estate in fee simple in the same; but such conveyance shall not be made Conveyances until the full consideration for which such lands have to purcha❤ been sold shall be paid to the person or persons authorized by the governar, with advice of council, to receive such-payment. If any purchaser of the said land shall make payment for any part of the said land before such payment shall be due, he shall be entitled to a discount at the rate of six per centum per annum.→ The said lands shall be sold for current money of Vir- Sale for speginia, payable in Spanish milled dollars at the rate of cie or certifi six shillings each, or in other, silver or gold coin at a cates, proportionate value, which payment shall be secured in

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tors of public accounts, or other person appointed by law for that purpose, for payment of debts due by this state to foreign creditors, which warrants shall express that the same are to be received in payment for the Gosport lands, and shall be countersigned by the gov ernor or chief magistrate of this commonwealth. Al the money arising under this act from the sale of the said Gosport lands, shall be applied to the payment of the debts due to foreign creditors, in such manner as the general assembly shall direct.

III. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners to be appointed under this act, shall, before they enter on the duty of their office, give bond to the governor or chief magistrate of this commonwealth and his successors, in the sum of twenty thousand pounds, for the true and faithful discharge of their duty; for which services they shall be allowed two per centum on the amount of the sales by them made. IV. And be it further enacted, That a majority of Majority may the commissioners appointed by this act, shall have full power and authority to make sale of the said lands, and to carry the same into effect in all other respects agreeable to the powers vested in them by this act. So much of any former act as comes within the purview of this act, is hereby repealed.

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[Ch. LXXII in original.]

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Salaries of

CHAP. XXXIII.

An act to amend the act For the better support of the supreme court in the Kentucky district.

J. WHEREAS the salaries at present allowed to the judges of the supreme court in the Kentucky district are indequate to their services, and the funds out of which they are to be paid insufficient;

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judges of su II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That in preme court lieu of the salaries given to the said judges by the act, in Kentucky intituled "An act for the better support of the supreme district, increased. court in the Kentucky district," they shall be allowed

III. Be it enacted, That the deputy register shall To be paid pay in quarterly payments to each of the said judges, by deputy reor their order, the sum of seventy five pounds, and gister of land shall take receipts therefor, which receipts, after having preserved a duplicate thereof in his office, he shall transmit to the register of the land office, who in his settlement, as by an act of the present session of assembly, intituled "An act for appropriating the fees of the land office in aid of the public revenue, and placing the register and his deputy on the civil list," is directed, shall be allowed to pass the same as cash.