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clamation.

where the offence shall be committed, for the use of their parish.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforepersons exsaid, That if any person or persons, during the time porting grain when prohi- the governor, or commander in chief, for the time bebited by pro- ing, with the advice of the council, shall by proclamation have prohibited the exportation of grain, shall export out of this colony by land, any wheat, Indian corn, pease or other grain, or any flour or meal made of the same, the owner or owners of such grain, flour or meal so exported, shall forfeit and pay double the value thereof, to be recovered and appropriated, as aforesaid.

Preamble.

CHAP. VII.

An Act for prolonging the time appointed for drawing the public Lottery.

I. WHEREAS by an act passed at the last sesssion of this Assembly, intituled, An act for raising the sum of six thousand pounds by a lottery, for the further protection of his majesty's subjects, against the insults and encroachments of the French, it was amongst other things enacted, that the persons by the said act, nominated and appointed managers and directors, to oversee and direct the drawing of the said lottery, should on the eleventh day of December, next ensuing, in case all the lottery tickets should then be sold, proceed to the drawing of the same, according to the rules and directions in the said act prescribed: And further, that if all the said tickets should not be sold or disposed of, on or before the said eleventh day of Decmber, that then the tickets remaining unsold, should be drawn on account, and for the use and benefit of the country, provided, The same did not exceed five thousand; but that if the remainingtickets should exceed that number that then the said managers should give public notice thereof, by advertising the same, six times in the Virginia Gazette, and in that case, should repay to the

several purchasers of tickets, their executors, administrators or assigns, so much money, as should have been by them respectively paid or laid out in the purchase of such tickets. And whereas the time by the said act given, for the sale of the said lottery tickets is not sufficient, and it is necessary that the drawing of the said lottery, should be further prolonged, in case twenty thousand of the said tickets, should not be disposed of, on or before the eleventh day of December:

ry is to be

II. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Govern- In what case or, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General As- time of drawsembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the ing the lottesame, That in case it shall so happen, that twenty continued. thousand of the said lottery tickets shall not be sold and disposed of, on or before the said eleventh day of December, next ensuing, that then the said managers and directors, shall on the sixth day of May, next following, proceed to the drawing of the said lottery at the place, and according to the rules and directions in the said recited act particularly expressed.

ets are not sold before

III. And be it further enacted, That if all the said where all lottery tickets, shall not be sold or disposed of, before the said tickthe said sixth day of May, that then the tickets remaining unsold, shall be drawn on account, and for the sixth the use and benefit of the country: Provided, The same day of May. do not exceed five thousand; but if the remaining tickets, shall exceed that number, then the said managers shall give public notice thereof, and repay to the purchasers of tickets, their purchase money, as in the said recited act is directed.

CHAP. VIII.

An Act for paying the Burgesses wages, for this present session of Assembly.

I. WHEREAS by an act of Assembly, made in the fourth year of the reign of her late majesty queen Anne, intituled, An act for regulating the election of Burgesses, for settling their privileges and ascertain

ing their allowance; it is amongst other things enacted, that the allowance for Burgesses attending the General Assembly, should be as followeth, that is to say, for every Burgess coming by land, one hundred and thirty pounds of tobacco and cask a day, besides the necessary charge of ferriage: And for every Bur gess who could not come to the General Assembly, otherwise than by water, one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco and cask a day, to be paid them by the county, for which they serve respectively, besides an allowance for divers days of travelling to, and from the General Assembly, as in the said act is particularly mentioned. And whereas by one other act of Assembly, made in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for the better regulating the payment of the Burgesses wages; it is amongst other things enacted, that when any session of Assembly should be hereafter held, and upon examination of the treasurer's accounts, it should appear that there are monies sufficient in his hands, to discharge all the debts due from the public, together with the Burgesses wages, and the salaries and allowances to the respective officers of the General Assembly, leaving and reserving in the hands of the said treasurer, over and above the said payments, a balance of one thousand five hundred pounds, at the least; then every Burgess elected and serving for any county or corporation, should be paid out of the public money, the sum of ten shillings, for cach day he should serve in the house of Burgesses, and for the days of coming to, and returning from the General Assembly, according to the first recited act, in lieu of all other demands for that service, with further allowance to the Burgesses of Accomack and Northampton, and others coming to the General Assembly by water, as in the said act is particularly directed. And whereas by reason of the low circumstances of the treasury, the wages of the Burgesses for this present session cannot be discharged in money, according to the last mentioned act, and the same must be paid by the several counties; but for as much as the aliowance according to the first mentioned act, are very unequal by reason of the various prices of tobac to in the different parts of the colony; for making the same more equal and just,

II. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Counoil and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That the several county courts within this colony, (except the counties of Augusta, Frederick, and Hampshire) shall at the laying of their next county levies, respectively, raise and levy so much tobacco, as will be sufficient to pay the wages of their respective Burgesses, for this present session of Assembly, according to the directions and regulations in the said last recited act mentioned, and shall cause the tobacco so levied, to be sold, and such wages paid out of the money arising by such sale, on or before the tenth day of July, which shall be in the year, one thousand seven hundred and fifty six; and that the several county courts of Augusta, Frederick, and Hampshire, shall also at the times aforesaid, levy and pay in money the wages of their respective Burgesses, for this present session of Assembly.