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a list of all such invalids, distinguishing in such list the nature of the wound or other incapacity that hath occasioned his discharge. And be it farther enacted, That such invalids when formed into corps as aforesaid, shall be stationed at such posts or places as it shall appear to the executive they may be most usefully employed, and such corps so embodied shall be entitled to the same pay, rations, and clothing, as the troops now in continental service in lieu of such pensions, and be subject to the articles of war that govern the troops in the immediate service of this commonwealth.

CHAP. VII.

An act for procuring a supply of money for the exigencies of the war.

per money.

WHEREAS the immediate and pressing exigencies Further e of the war require the farther emission of paper money mission of until the measures heretofore adopted in this common- treasury wealth for procuring supplies of money shall have their notes, or pa operation, Be it therefore enacted, That the treasurer of this commonwealth shall, and he is hereby directed and empowered to issue treasury notes in dollars for any sum or sums of money which may be necessary for the publick exigencies; the sum or sums of money to be issued by virtue hereof shall not exceed the sum of six millions of pounds, unless the exigencies of government should render a farther sum necessary, in which case, the governour, with advice of the council, may direct any farther sum, not exceeding four millions of pounds, to be emitted, and lay a state thereof before the next session of assembly, who will provide for the redemption thereof; and the governour, with the advice of council may, and he is hereby required, if the necessities of the state will permit at any time hereafter, to stop the emission of all or any part of the bills of credit hereby directed to be issued. The treasürer shall cause the said notes to be engraved and

printed in such manner, and upon such paper as he may judge most likely to secure them against counterfeits; the face of the notes thus to be emitted shall read One for for. in manner following, to wit: No.

ty money.

Dollars. This bill of dollars shall be exchanged and redeemed in Spanish milled dollars, or the value in gold or silver, at the rate of one for forty, at the treasury of Virginia, on or before the thirtieth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. And on each of the said notes the treasurer shall cause such a device to be printed as will readily distinguish the said bills from any others heretofore emitted in this commonwealth. He shall also appoint proper persons to overlook the press, to number and sign the said notes, upon the best terms he can, always observing to publish the names of such numberers and signers in the newspaper. The bills of credit to be emitted by virtue of this act, shall be entered in the auditors office to the treasurer's account, and be signed, on some part thereof the most convenient, by one of the auditors of publick accounts, or by one of their clerks, or by an assistant clerk to be appointed by the auditors for this special purpose, who shall receive such an allowance for his trouble as they shall judge reasonable, without which signature the said bills of credit shall not be curAnd for establishing a fund which shall prove the redemp- sufficiently productive for the redemption of the bills of credit hereby to be emitted; Be it farther enacted, That a tax shall hereafter be imposed upon the lands, slaves, and other property within this commonwealth, by way of general assessment, adequate to that end which tax shall be imposed, and collected in such manner as to redeem the whole of the bills of credit to be emitted by virtue hereof within five years, to commence from and after the thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five. The money hereby to be emitted shall be received in payment of all taxes heretofore imposed, or hereafter to be imposed, and shall be a legal tender in discharge of all debts and contracts, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions that the money emitted by the last session of assembly is declared to be by an act of the present session, entitled "An act to explain and amend the act for calling in and redeeming the money now in circulation, and for emit

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ting and funding new bills of credit, according to the resolutions of congress of the eighteenth of March last.". The treasurer of this commonwealth shall, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to exchange any of the bills of credit hereby to be emitted for the paper bills of credit emitted by congress and now in circulation in this commonwealth, except the bills of credit emitted agreeable to the resolutions of congress of the eighteenth day of March last; and also for any of the bills of credit heretofore emitted in this commonwealth, with any person or persons who may be willing and desirous of doing the same.

money,

death without clergy.

And be it farther enacted, That he or she shall be Forging or adjudged a felon, and shall suffer death without the counterfeitbenefit of clergy, who shall forge or counterfeit, altering paper or erase any bill of credit or treasury note, to be is sued by virtue of this act; or who shall cause or procure such bill of credit or treasury note to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erased,' or shall aid or assist in forging or counterfeiting, altering or erasing such bill of credit or treasury note, or shall pass or tender, or shall cause or procure to be passed or tendered any such bill of credit or treasury note in payment or exchange, knowing the same to have been forged or counterfeited, altered or erased, or shall have in his or her custody or possession any press, types, stamp, plate, or other instrument necessary to be used in the fabrication of any such bill of credit or treasury note, and not actually used in some publick printing office, or any paper, with or without signature, on which the characters or words that are contained in a genuine bill of credit or treasury note are or shall be impressed or inscribed in like order as they are in such bill of credit or treasury note, or any such bill of credit or treasury note which hath been altered or erased, knowing the same to have been altered or erased, and shall not discover such press, types, stamp, plate, instrument, paper, or altered or erased bill of credit or treasury note, to two justices of the peace, within five days after the same shall have come to his or her possession; any person or persons charged with having been guilty of any one or more of the above mentioned offences, shall be prosecuted and tried in the manner as directed for the trial of like offences, by an act of assembly passed in the year of our Lord 1779, en

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Certificates

in taxes.

titled "An act for punishing persons guilty of certain thefts and forgeries, and fixing the allowance to sheriffs, veniremen, and witnesses, in certain cases."

And whereas the anticipation of publick revenue, ocreceivable casioned by the claims of those holding certificates for provisions and other articles obtained for publick use, under the acts and resolutions of the last and present sessions of assembly, may produce great embarrassment, unless such certificates are made payable in discharge of publick taxes; Be it farther enacted, That all certificates granted by the publick agents and commissioners, agreeable to any act or resolution of the last or present session of assembly, for horses, provisions, or other articles, furnished the publick, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be receivable in discharge of any tax or duty whatsoever, which may be due from the possessor thereof.

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CHAP. VIII.

An act directing the money arising from the sales of the estate of John Meacom, deceased, to be paid to his widow and children.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this present general assembly, that John Meacom, deceased, was estate of in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy com, which six, convicted of, and executed for murdering one of was forfeit his own slaves, and his whole estate thereby became ed and paid forfeited to the commonwealth, was soon afterwards sury, on his sold, and the money arising from the sales thereof, paid conviction & into the publick treasury, whereby Ann Meacom the executionfor widow and five children, orphans of the said John Meaof one of his com, are rendered destitute of the means of support; own slaves, and it being expedient to extend grace and favour to directed to the widow and children of the said John Meacom; Be be repaid to it therefore enacted, That the treasurer shall and he is children. hereby required, to pay the money arising from the

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sale of the estate of the said John Meacom to the said Ann Meacom and five children, in the following proportions, that is to say, one sixth part thereof to the said Ann Meacom, and the other five sixths in equal proportions to the children of the said John Meacom, or to such person or persons as by law may be entiled to receive it for them.

CHAP. IX.

An act for adding part of the county of Augusta to the county of Monongalia.

BE it enacted, That all that part of the county of Part of the Augusta, north-west of the line that divides Augusta county of Augusta adfrom Green Brier on the top of the ridge, that divides ded to Mothe waters of Green Brier from those of Elk and Ty- nongalia. ger's valley, and with that ridge to the ridge that divides the waters of Potowmack from those of Cheat, and with the same to the line that divides Augusta and Rockingham, shall be and the same is hereby added to and made part of the county of Monongalia. Provided always, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to hinder the sheriff of the said county of Augusta from collecting and making distress for any publick dues or officers fees which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants thereof, at the time of passing this act; but such sheriff shall have the same power to collect and distrain for such dues and fees, and shall be accountable for them in the same manner as if this act had never been made.

And be it farther enacted, That the court of the said county of Augusta, shall have jurisdiction of all actions and suits in law and equity which shall be depending before them, and shall and may try and determine all such actions and suits, and issue process and award execution thereon.

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