Private acts. and land, through which the causeway and road leads, if they think necessary, shall and may erect one or more gates thereon. Had its ef fect. CHAP. 78. An act for establishing a town in Augusta county, and allowing fairs to be kept therein. 79. An act for dividing the county of Isle of Wight into two distinct counties, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 80. An act for obliging the county of Goochland, and parishes of St. James Northam and Southam, to repay the county of Albemarle, and parish of St. Anne, a sum of money and tobacco therein mentioned. 81. An act for erecting a town in the county of Prince William. 82. An act to prevent the building of wooden chimnies, in the town of Walkerton; and also, to prevent the inhabitants thereof from raising and keeping hogs. 83. An act for establishing a town near Warwick, in the county of Henrico. 84. An act for erecting a town at HuntingCreek warehouse, in the county of Fairfax. 85. An act for dividing the county of Henrico into two distinct counties. 86. An act to impower the vestry of the parish of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, to sell the glebe lands in the said parish, and to purchase a more convenient glebe, in lieu thereof. 87. An act for dividing the parish Truro, and dissolving the vestry of the parish of Suffolk; and other purposes therein mentioned. 88. An act for paying the Burgesses wages in money, for the present session of As sembly. 89. An act for dissolving the vestry of the parish of Cumberland, in the county of Lunenburg, and electing a new vestry in the said parish. Signed by Sir WILLIAM GOOCH, Bart. Governor. JOHN ROBINSON, Jun. Speaker. The following Laws, made in the year 1748, were repealed, by proclamation, in April 1752. An act for allowing fairs to be kept in the town of Suffolk; and preventing hogs and goats going at large therein, and for altering the times of holding fairs in the town of Newcastle. Also an act, intituled an act for establishing a town in Augusta county; and allowing fairs to be kept therein. Also an act, intituled an act declaring slaves to be personal estate; and for other purposes therein mentioned. Also an act, intituled an act for the distribution of intestates estates. Also an act, intituled an act for establishing the general court; and for regulating and settling the proceedings therein. Also an act, intituled an act for limitation of actions; and avoiding suits. Also an act, intituled an act concerning servants, and slaves. Also an act, intituled an act to prevent tending seconds. Also an act, intituled an act for the better support of the college of William and Mary. And and act, intituled an act to prevent the building of wooden chimnies in the town of Walkerton; and also, to prevent the inhabitants thereof from raising and keeping hogs. ANNO REGNI GEORGII II, Regis, Angliæ, Scotia, Franciæ, et widdie, esq. At a General Assembly, begun and held at Robert Dinthe College, in Williamsburg, on Thurs- Governor. day the twenty-seventh day of February, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George II. by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. and in the year of our Lord, 1752. CHAP. I. An Act for reviving the duty upon slaves to be paid by the buyer, for the term there in mentioned. I. WHEREAS by an act of Assembly, made in the Preamble. fifth and sixth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for laying a duty upon slaves, to be paid by the buyers; it was among other things enacted, That from and after the passing thereof, for and during the term of four years, there should be levied, and paid to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors, for all slaves imported or brought into this colony and dominion, for sale, either by land or water, from any port or place whatsoever, by the buyer or purchaser, after the rate of five pounds per C c-Vol. 6 1 Duty of five per cent. re vived, on slaves imported. Importer, surer an ac count of sale, with the cent. on the amount of each respective purchase; with divers provisions, and directions, in the said act contained, for managing, collecting, paying, and applying the said duty, which was continued with alterations and amendments, by several subsequent acts, all which expired the last day of July, one thousand seven hundred and fifty one: And whereas, the public debts contracted for his majesty's service, during the late war with Faance, and also for rebuilding the Capitol, are yet unpaid, and cannot be discharged without the aid of the duty laid by the aforesaid act, which hath, by experience, been found easy to the people here, and no ways burthensome to the traders in slaves. II. BE it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this preseut General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing hereof, for and during the space of four years, the said duty of five pounds per cent. on the amount of each respective purchase, of any slave, or slaves, imported or brought into this colony and dominion, for sale, either by land or water, from any port or place whatsoever, shall be revived, become payable, and paid, in such manner and with such allowances as herein after directed. III. And for the better levying, collecting, recovershall deliver ing, and securing, the duty hereby revived, and which to the trea- shall become due and payable within the time aforesaid; Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every importer, or seller, of any slave, or slaves, names of the imported into this colony, either by land or water, buyers, and for sale, shall within thirty days after finishing the ⚫ prices; whether for sale of such slave or slaves, deliver, or cause to be decurrency or livered, to the treasurer of Virginia, for the time besterling. ing, upon oath, a true manifest, or account, of all the slaves by him sold, the name, and place of abode, of every buyer; the respective prices for which the same were sold, and whether for sterling, or current moDuty to be ney; and if sold for tobacco, or any other commodity, paid by the the seller shall set a value, in current money, upon buyer. the slave, or slaves, so sold, and the buyer shall be chargeable with, and pay the said duty, according to such valuation. IV. And where the contract shall be for sterling, the buyer shall pay, for the difference of money, after the rate of twenty five per cent. upon the sterling: |