WE JOHN M. MARTIN and ROBERT G. SCOTT, members of the Privy Council of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby certify that the Laws contained in the Fifth volume of Hening's Statutes at Large, have been by us examined and compared with the originals from which they were taken, and have been found truly and accurately printed, except as to the list of Errata to the number of forty four at the end of the volume. Given under our hands and seals this 31st day of December, 1819.

JOHN M. MARTIN, Seal.
ROBERT G. SCOTT, Seal.

UNIV. OF MICH. LAW LIBRARY.

Statutes at Large;

BEING

A COLLECTION

OF ALL THE

LAWS OF VIRGINIA,

FROM THE

FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE,

IN THE YEAR 1619.

PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF VIRGINIA, PASSED ON THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY,
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHT.

VOLUME V.

By WILLIAM WALLER HENING.

"The Laws of a country are necessarily connected with every thing be-
longing to the people of it; so that a thorough knowledge of them, and
of their progress would inform us of every thing that was most use-
ful to be known about them; and one of the greatest imperfections
of historians in general, is owing to their ignorance of law."

PRIESTLEY'S LECT. ON HIST. VOL. I. pa. 149

RICHMOND.

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR.

AT THE FRANKLIN PRESS.-W. W. GRAY, PRINT.

1819.