Assembly, the freeholders and inhabitants thereof will not be entitled to the like privileges, enjoyed by the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns in this colony;

II. BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, founcil, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That the said parcel of land, lately claimed by the said James Wood, lying and being in the county of Frederick aforesaid, together with fifty four other lots of half an acre each, twenty four thereof to be laid off in one or two streets, on the east side of the former lots, the street or streets to run parallel with the street already laid off, and the remaining thirty lots, to be laid off at the north end of the aforesaid twenty six, with a commodious street or streets, in such manner as the proprietor thereof, the right honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax, shall think fit, be, and is hereby constituted, appointed, erected, and established, a town, in the manner already laid out, and described to be laid out, to be called by and retain the name of Winchester, and that the freeholders of the said town, shall, for ever hereafter, enjoy the same privileges, which the freeholders of other towns, erected by act of Assembly, enjoy.

III. And whereas allowing fairs to be kept, in the Fairs. said town of Winchester, will be of great benefit to the inhabitants of the said parts, and greatly increase the trade of that town, Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That for the future, two fairs shall and may be annually kept, and held, in the said town of Winchester, on the third Wednesday in June, and the third Wednesday in October, in every year, and to continue for the space of two days, for the sale and vending all manner of cattle, victuals, provisions, goods, wares, and merchandizes, whatsoever; on which fair days, and two days next before, and two days next after, the said fairs, all persons coming to, being at, or going from the same, together with their cattle, goods, wares, and merchandizes, shall be exempted, and privileged, from all arrests, attachments, and executions, whatsoever, except for capital offences, breaches of the peace, or for any controversies, suits, or quarrels, that may arise and happen during the said time, in which case process may be immediately issued, and proceedings thereupon had, in the same

manner as if this act had never been made, any thing herein before contained, or any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding. IV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed, deemed, or taken, to derogate from, alter, or infringe, the royal power and prerogative of his majesty, his heirs and successors, of granting to any person or persons, body politic and corporate, the privileges of holding fairs, or markets, in any such manner as he or they, by his or their royal letters patent, or by his or their instructions, to the governor, or commander in chief of this dominion, for the time being, shall think fit.

Vestry of parish of Truro, in county of Fairfax, au

to sell their glebe.

CHAP. XXVII.

An Act to impower the Vestry of the parish of Truro, in the county of Fairfax, to sell their glebe, and to pay part of the purchase money to the Vestry of the parish of Cameron.

I. WHEREAS the globe of the parish of Truro, in the county of Fairfax, is inconveniently situated and much out of repair, and the minister and vestry, of the said parish, have petitioned this General Assembly for leave to sell the same and purchase ano

ther:

II. BE it 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 the said glebe land, belonging to the said parish of Truro, be, and it is hereby vested in the present vestry of the said parish, and the vestry of the said parish for the time being, in trust; nevertheless, that the said vestry, or the greater part of them, shall, by deed of bargain and sale, indented and duly recorded, convey the said glebe, with the appurtenances, for a valuable consideration of money, bona fide received, to such person or persons as shall be willing to pur

chase the same, to hold to such purchaser or purchasers, and his or their heirs and assigns for ever. Saving to the king's most excellent majesty, his heirs and successors, and to all and every other person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, their respective heirs and successors, other than the minister and vestry of the said parish, all such right, title, interest, claim, and demand, as they, every, or any of them, should, or might, have had, or claimed, to the said glebe land, if this act had never been made.

III. And whereas by one act of Assembly, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present. majesty, intituled, An act for dividing the parish of Truro, and dissciving the vestry of the parish of Suffolk, and other purposes therein mentioned; it was, among other things, enacted, That from and after the eleventh day of June then next, the said parish of Truro, should be divided by Difficult Run, and its meanders from the mouth to the head thereof, and from thence by a line to the head of Pope's head-run,, and down the said run, its several courses and meanders, to the mouth thereof, and that all that part of the said parish, situate on the lower side of the said runs, and line should be one distinct parish, and retain the name of Truro, and all that other part thereof, situate on the upper side of the said runs and line, should be one other distinct parish, and called by the name of Cameron, but it was not provided by the said act, that the inhabitants, of the said parish of Cameron, should be reimbursed the charges which had been levied on them, for purchasing and building on the said glebe, before the said parish of Truro was divided, it being just that they should have some satisfaction for the

same:

IV. Be it therefore further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said vestry of the parish of Truro, after they shall have received the purchase money, for which the said glebe shall be sold, shall pay to the vestry of the said parish of Cameron, for the use of their said parish, such part of the said money, as their proportion thereof would have amounted to, at the time of the said division, if such sale had been then made.

V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the residue of the said money, arising by the sale of the said glebe, shall by the said vestry of

the parish of Truro, be laid out and applied towards purchasing a good and covenient glebe, for the use and benefit of the minister of the said parish of Truro, for the time being, for ever.

Vestry of parish of Nottoway, in county of

CHAP. XXVIII.

An Act for dissolving the Vestry of the parish of Nottoway, in the county of Amelia, and electing a new Vestry in the said parish.

I. WHEREAS it hath been represented to this General Assembly, that the election of vestrymen, in the parish of Nottoway, in the county of Amelia, was ilAmelia dis- legal, and the inhabitants of the said parish have pesolved, and a titioned for a dissolution of the vestry thereof;

new one e

lected.

II. 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 the vestry, or pretended vestry, of the said parish, is hereby dissolved, and that all and every act and acts, thing and things, which at any time or times hereafter, shall or may be performed, suffered, or done by them as a vestry, or pretended vestry, of the said parish, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, utterly void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

III. Provided always, That all and every levy and levies heretofore made, and every other act and thing, by the said vestry, or pretended vestry, done, or suffered, shall be good, valid, and effectual, in as full and ample manner, as if the election of the said vestry had been legal and regular.

IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the freeholders, and house keepers, of the said parish of Nottoway, shall meet, at some convenient time and place, to be appointed, and publicly advertised, at least one month before, by the sheriff of the said county, before the tenth day of June next,

and then, and there, elect twelve of the most able and discreet persons of the said parish, to be vestrymen thereof, which said vestrymen, so elected, having in the court of the said county of Amelia, taken and subscribed the oaths appointed to be taken by one act of parliament, made in the first year of the reign of his late majesty king George the first, intituled, An act for the further security of his majesty's person and government, and the succession of the crown in the heirs of the late princess Sophia, being protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors, and taken and subscribed the oath of abjuration and repeated and subscribed the test, and also subscribed to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be the vestrymen of the said parish.

CHAP. XXIX.

An Act for establishing the town of Westham, in the county of Henrico.

Henrico

I. WHEREAS one hundred and fifty lots, with Town of streets, have been laid off for a town at Westham in Westham in the county of Henrico, on the land lately belonging county estato Beverley Randolph, esq. deceased, and William blished. Randolph, gentleman, the present proprietor, is desirous that the land lying between the said town and the river should be also included: And whereas the said town is seated near the lower landing of an extensive navigation, above the falls of James river, and is likely to become the chief place of trade for all the upper inhabitants of that river, and its several branches;

II. BE it 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 the said one hundred and fifty lots, and streets, already laid out, together with the land between those lots K K-Vol. 6.