second year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the settlement and regulation of Ferries, and for Dispatch of public Expresses, as to so much thereof as relates to the ferries thereby established from Henry Cary's land, over James river, to the land of the said Cary: From the land of colonel Richard Bland, in the county of Prince-George, to the land of Mss. Anderson, in the county of Charles-City; and from the land of William Pride, called the store landing, in the county of Henrico (now Chesterfield) to Anthony's landing, in the county of Prince-George, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed and made void. IV. Provided always, That the execution of this act shall be suspended until his majesty's approbation thereof be first had and obtained. CHAP. XI. An Act for the relief of the sufferers by Tobacco burnt in Crutchfield's and Pitt's Warehouses, and for other purposes there in mentioned. I. WHEREAS by an act of assembly made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present majes for tobacco Reparation ty, intituled, An Act for amending the Staple of To- burnt in bacco, and preventing frauds in his majesty's Customs, Crutchfield's it is amongst other things enacted, That when any warehouses. public warehouses should be thereafter destroyed by fire the loss thereby occasioned should be defrayed by the public. II. And whereas large quantities of tobacco have been lately accidentally burnt in the public warehouses at Crutchfield's, in the county of Hanover, and at Pitt's, in the county of Accomack; an account of which tobacco, with the names of the proprietors, as taken by the commissioners appointed for that purpose, is contained in a schedule hereunto annexed: Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Ro and Pitt's binson, esquire, treasurer, or the treasurer of this colony for the time being, appointed by or pursuant to an act of assembly, out of the public money in his hands, shall, on or before the last day of October next ensuing, pay to the sufferers respectively, with an interest of five per centum per annum from the time of passing this act, according to the several quantities. by them lost, as mentioned in the said schedule, after the rates following, that is to say: For the crop tobacco passed at Crutchfield's warehouse twenty shillings per centum: For the transfer tobacco passed at the said warehouse two pence per pound; and for tobacco refused at the said warehouse and put by to be picked twelve shillings and six-pence per centum. And for the crop tobacco passed at Pitt's warehouse thirteen shillings and six-pence per centum: For the transfer tobacco passed at the said warehouse twelve shillings per centum: For tobacco viewed and put by to be picked eight shillings per centum; and for the tobacco burnt at the said warehouse before it was inspected nine shillings per centum. II. And whereas some of the sufferers by tobacco burnt in Bolling's-Point warehouse, in the county of Dinwiddie, were omitted to be mentioned in the memorial of the inspectors, and therefore not reimbursed for such their losses under the former acts of assembly: Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said treasurer, out of the public money in his hands, shall, on or before the said last day of October next ensuing, pay to the said sufferers, with an interest of five per centum per annum, from the ninth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and fifty five, according to the rates and for the quantities following, that is to say: To Thomas Tabb for one thousand and twelve pounds of tobacco, and Alexander Mackie for nine hundred and thirty-nine pounds of tobacco, at fourteen shillings per centum each: To Theophilus Field for one thousand and thirty-nine pounds of tobacco, at fifteen shillings per centum: To Lewis Burwell for three thousand pounds of tobacco, and the executors of Armistead Burwell, deceased, for two thousand pounds of tobacco, at twelve shillings and sixpence per centum. |