sum for the expences attending the repairs of the said works, and other contingent charges, make an equal dividend of the nett profits arising from the tolls and other profits thereof amongst themselves according to their respective proportions. In consideration of the expences that will be incurred by the said company in deepening the bed of the said river and keeping the same open, the members of the said company, their heirs and assigns, shall be entitled to the tolls herein after mentioned, for ever, as tenants in common, in proportion to their respective shares, and the same shall be deemed real estate, and be for ever exempt from the payment of any tax or imposition whatsoever.

VI. And it shall and may be lawful for the said president and directors, to demand and receive at the place called the Bakehouse, on the said river, or at such other places above that as the said president and directors shall appoint, tolls from vessels drawing upwards of five feet of water, for their passage by or through the said places, according to the following table and rates, to wit: On vessels of five and half feet, three shillings per foot; on vessels of six feet, three shillings and nine pence per foot; on vessels of six and half feet, four shillings and six pence per foot; on vessels of seven feet, five shillings and three pence per foot; on vessels of seven and half feet,six shillings per foot; on vessels of eight feet, six shillings and nine pence per foot; on vessels of eight and half feet, seven shillings and six pence per foot; on vessels of nine feet, nine shillings per foot; on vessels of nine and half feet, eleven shillings and three-pence per foot; on vessels of ten feet, fifteen shillings per foot; on vessels over ten feet, and not more than twelve feet, twenty shillings per foot; and on all vessels over twelve feet, one pound five shillings per foot. Which tolls are rated in money, and may be discharged in gold or silver coin at their current value.

VII. The tolls herein before allowed to be demanded and received, shall be paid on condition only, that the said Appamattax company shall make the said river capaple of being navigated in any season, from Broadway to Pocahuntas bridge, by vessels drawing twelve feet water, and in case the company shall not begin the said work within two years after the company shall be formed, and compleat the same within se

ven years after it is began, then the said company shall not be intitled to any benefit or privilege under this

act.

VIII. If payment of the said tolls shall be refused, when any vessel from which the same are demandable offers to pass by or through the said places herein before named, the collectors may lawfully refuse to such vessel; and if any such vessel shall pass without paying the said tolls, the master, skipper, or owner of such vessel, shall forfeit and pay to the said Appamattox company, the sum of two ponnds for every foot of water which it may draw; to be recovered on motion and ten days notice, in any court of record within this commonwealth. The said river and the channel thereof when deepened as aforesaid, shall forever be considered and taken as a public highway for the passage of all vessels, and transportation of all commodities, upon payment of the tolls aforesaid; and no other tax or toll shall at any time hereafter be imposed for the use of the water of the said river; but the said river shall nevertheless be subject to such regulations, as may be prescribed by the laws of this state or the United States. The shares in the said company shall to all intents and purposes be held and transferred by the proprietors thereof, in the same manner and on the same conditions, as the shares of the proprietors in the James river and Potowmack companies.

IX. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent vessels drawing less than five and an half feet water, from using and navigating the said river Appamattox, in the same manner as if this act had never been made: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the private right of any individual owning a fishery on the said river,

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ther in the

CHAP. LXXXIII.

An act to punish bribery and extor

tion.

[Passed at the October session of assembly, in the year one thou. sand seven hundred and eighty-six, and now republished by a resolution of assembly of the 19th of December 1788, with marginal notes shewing the errors in the former publication.]

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That third line are no treasurer, keeper of any public seal, councillor of inserted the state, counsel for the commonwealth, judge, clerk of words or are the peace, sheriff, coroner, escheator, nor any other tornies at law, practising ei officer of the commonwealth shall, in time to come, take, in any form, any manner of brokage or reward generalcourt, for doing his office other than is, or shall be, allowed high court of chancery, by some act of general assembly passed after the insticourt of 2p. tution of the commonwealth, that is to say, after the peals, court fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thouof admiralty sand seven hundred and eighty-six. And he, that courts' which doth, shall pay unto the party grieved, the treble value are not in the of that he hath received, shall be amerced and impriThe word soned at the discretion of a jury, and shall be dis'other' in the charged from his office forever. And he who will sue roll after the in the said matter shall have suit as well for the comwords 'nor a monwealth as for himself, and the third part of the amercement.

or inferior

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ted.

END OF TWELFTH VOLUME.

When to commence 129. Cer-Streets in, and adjoining, regu-

AMELIA

County, divided and Nottoway

formed 723.

AMERCEMENTS.

Rules concerning 356.

APPAMATTOX RIVER.
Act for opening and extending
navigation of 591. For im-
proving navigation from
Broadway to Pocahuntas
bridge 792.

APPEALS

How granted from high court of
chancery 466. Attornies ap-
pearing in inferior court for
appellant, not to appear on an
appeal 497, 708. To district
courts 753. Bonds; damages
754, 756.

APPEALS, COURT OF
Of how many judges to consist;
where to sit; terms; impeach-
ments tried in 764. Clerk;
judges interested; bonds on
appeals; special term of 765.

APPRAISEMENT
Of decedents' estates; how far
evidence; allowance to ap-
praisers 149. When no ap-
praisement 150.

APPRENTICES
Orphans bound; covenants in
indentures; wards bound; com-
plaints, how redressed 197.

APPROPRIATION
Of revenue 55, 323, &c. 417,781

ARMISTEAD, WM.
James, a slave his property, e-
mancipated 381.

ARMS.

See Militia, and pa. 12, 16,
Exempted from execution or
distress; lost, when not paid

for 24. What kind, how ob-
tained and distributed 433.

ARMY.

Further time allowed to settle
claims of officers, soldiers, sai-
lors and marines, for pay and
depreciation 278.

ARTIZANS
Migrating to this common-
wealth, privileges of 262.
ARVIN, MARY
Lands whereof John Askins
died seized, vested in his mo-
ther Mary Arvin 363.

ASKINS, JOHN
Land whereof John Askins died
seized, vested in his mother
Mary Arvin 363.

ASSEMBLY.
Delegates and senators, when
elected; when to meet; right
of suffrage 120. Qualifica-
tion in Williamsburg and Nor-
folk; who may be elected 121.
Who not compellable to serve,
penalty for failing to vote,
how discovered and prosecu-
ted; privileges of electors;
polls how taken 122. Where
candidates equal; meeting of
returning officers; none to vote
twice; when polls kept open;
contested elections 123.
on scrutiny, votes equal, how
elected; oath of electors; re-
fusing to swear 124. Form
of return of a delegate; for a
city or borough; for a senator
125. Returns, when; elec-
tion to supply vacancy; cer-
tificate thereof 128. Returns
to assembly; penalty for fai-
lure; bribing; privilege of
members 127. Members ab-

If