officers and

soldiers,

foresaid issued to the said officers and soldiers, the a mount of which interest shall be ascertained by the auditors of public accounts, and commence the first day of January,, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, endorsing on every such certificate at the time of payn yment the sum paid for interest, and taking a receipt for the same. And as a farther relief to the said offi Certificates receivable cers and soldiers, it shall be lawful for them to discharge in taxes of their public taxes with the said certificates in manner following, that is to say: the amount of such officers or soldiers tax shall be indorsed by the sheriff or collector on the back of the said certificate, passing his receipt t at the same time to the said officer or soldier for the amount thereof, expressing that the same is by indorsement on such certificate, and taking from the said officer or soldier a certificate of the same, to be transmitted by such sheriff or collector to the auditors of public accounts, who are hereby directed to issue warrants to the amount thereof, charging the same to each respective officer or soldier, to be deducted annually out of the principal due to such officer or soldier, II. And whereas William Brown, of the county of Provision for Fairfax, acted as surgeon to the second Virginia regiment raised by this state in the year one thousand seliam Brown, in pay and ven hundred and seventy-five, until some time in the depreciation year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, when he was appointed by congress physician to the general hospital, and acted in that capacity, as well as assistant director and physician general, and surgeon general, until the year one thousand seven hundred and weighty, when he resigned the said appointments; And whereas no provision is made by law for settling the pay and depreciation of the said William Brown, who is moreover excluded from the bounty in lands allowed by law to surgeons and chaplains, by accepting the said appointments and not continuing regimental surgeon for the term of three years: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted, That the auditors of public accounts shall settle the pay and depreciation of the said William Brown, for his services aforesaid, and issue certificates for the balance in the same manner and upon the like proof as is prescribed in the case of officers and soldiers.

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CHAP. II.

An act to continue the act intituled An act to ascertain the number of people within this commonwealth.

1. WHEREAS the act of assembly passed at the Act for tak ing the een- last session, intituled," An act to ascertain the number Bus of Virgi of people within this commonwealth," will expire at nia, further the end of the present session of assembly, and it is exFontinued. pedient and necessary that the same should be contin ued:

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the act intituled, "An act to ascertain the number of people within this commonwealth," shall continue and be in force from and after the expiration thereof, until the end of the next session of assembly, and no longer..

CHAP. III.

[Chan. Rev. An act to continue the act intituled, An art to empower the judges of the general court to superintend and regulate the public jail.

See October 1779, ch. 19,

Act empow1. WHEREAS the act of assembly passed in the ering judges of general year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, court to su intituled, "An act to empower the judges of the geneperintend&ral court to superintend and regulate the public jail," regulate the public jail will expire on the first day of January next, and it is further con- expedient and necessary that the same should be continued: Be it therefore enacted, That the act intituled, An act to empower the judges of the general court to superintend and regulate the public jail," shall con

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tinue and be in force from and after the expiration thereof, for and during the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of assembly, and no longer.

CHAP. IV.

[Chapter XCIX in o riginal.]

An act to continue the act intituled An act to ascertain the losses and injuries sustained from the depredations of the enemy within this common 1783, e. 10. wealth.

See October

tain the loss.

1. WHEREAS the act of assembly passed at the Act to ascer last session, intituled, "An act to ascertain the losses es sustained and injuries sustained from the depredations of the e- by the denemy within this commonwealth," will expire at the predations end of the present session of assembly, and it is expe- my, during dient and necessary that the same should be continu- the war, fured: ther contin.

of the ene

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the act intituled, ued. it "An act to ascertain the losses and injuries sustained from the depredations of the enemy within this commonwealth," shall continue and be in force, from and after the expiration thereof, until the end of the next session of assembly, and no longer.