The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 : Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight ...editor, 1823 - Law |
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... discharge from actual service , shall be entitled to and receive one day's pay for each twenty miles such place of discharge shall be distant from his place of abode . And should the executive at any time find it expedient to retain the ...
... discharge from actual service , shall be entitled to and receive one day's pay for each twenty miles such place of discharge shall be distant from his place of abode . And should the executive at any time find it expedient to retain the ...
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... discharge of his duty herein , and shall have the same powers to collect the said poor rates , and have the same commission , and be subject to the same fines , for- feitures , and prosecutions , as in the case of county le- vies . The ...
... discharge of his duty herein , and shall have the same powers to collect the said poor rates , and have the same commission , and be subject to the same fines , for- feitures , and prosecutions , as in the case of county le- vies . The ...
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... discharge thereof , and also so much of the revenue arising from half the slave tax , and from the land tax , for the years one thousand seven hundred & eighty - five , and one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six , which have been ...
... discharge thereof , and also so much of the revenue arising from half the slave tax , and from the land tax , for the years one thousand seven hundred & eighty - five , and one thousand seven hundred and eighty - six , which have been ...
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... discharge of debts due to persons who are not citizens of this state ; all the nett revenue arising from the duty of two and an half per centum , on mer- chandize imported , and from the tax on law process and alienations , shall be ...
... discharge of debts due to persons who are not citizens of this state ; all the nett revenue arising from the duty of two and an half per centum , on mer- chandize imported , and from the tax on law process and alienations , shall be ...
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... discharge of any tobacco contracts heretofore entered into . And whereas great advanta- ges may be derived to the commonwealth , by encour- aging the manufacture of tobacco : rules con . V. Be it therefore enacted , That the inspectors ...
... discharge of any tobacco contracts heretofore entered into . And whereas great advanta- ges may be derived to the commonwealth , by encour- aging the manufacture of tobacco : rules con . V. Be it therefore enacted , That the inspectors ...
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Page 781 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies North of an East and West line drawn through the Southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Page 85 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 84 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 84 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do...
Page 780 - The western State in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash Rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada; and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 143 - The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Administrator of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of Deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits...
Page 85 - ... truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
Page 781 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government ; provided the constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 780 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 186 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.