The 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 ...editor, 1823 - Law |
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... applied to the debts contracted in support of the parish poor . And in case any church- wardens shall refuse to pay to the overseers of the poor in the county in which such churchwardens acted , the balance which shall appear to be in ...
... applied to the debts contracted in support of the parish poor . And in case any church- wardens shall refuse to pay to the overseers of the poor in the county in which such churchwardens acted , the balance which shall appear to be in ...
Page 56
... applied in discharge thereof , and also so much of the revenue arising from half the slave tax . and from the land tax , for the years one thousand seven hundred & eighty - five , and one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six , which ...
... applied in discharge thereof , and also so much of the revenue arising from half the slave tax . and from the land tax , for the years one thousand seven hundred & eighty - five , and one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six , which ...
Page 58
... applied to this purpose . In aid of the said funds shall also be applied , after making good former appropriations , all the money arising from the sale of the Gosport lands which have already been sold , or which may be hereafter sold ...
... applied to this purpose . In aid of the said funds shall also be applied , after making good former appropriations , all the money arising from the sale of the Gosport lands which have already been sold , or which may be hereafter sold ...
Page 59
... applied in aid of the general fund . The said warrants shall also ex- press that the same shall be received by any sheriff or collector of public taxes , in payment of any specie tax , and the same shall be so received ; and such ...
... applied in aid of the general fund . The said warrants shall also ex- press that the same shall be received by any sheriff or collector of public taxes , in payment of any specie tax , and the same shall be so received ; and such ...
Page 60
... costs , by action of debt , or information , in any court of record within this commonwealth , and applied , one half towards clearing the said river , and the other half stops to be to the use of the person suing 60 LAWS OF VIRGINIA ,
... costs , by action of debt , or information , in any court of record within this commonwealth , and applied , one half towards clearing the said river , and the other half stops to be to the use of the person suing 60 LAWS OF VIRGINIA ,
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Page 85 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 85 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 85 - ... the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right...
Page 84 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in His almighty power to do...
Page 780 - Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 143 - The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Administrator of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 781 - ... so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 84 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion...
Page 781 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government ; provided the constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 780 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.