added to the said county of King George, so that the said tobacco cannot be levied without the interposition and direction of the legislature:

11. Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the court of the said county of Stafford, and they are hereby required at the laying their next county levy, to levy the said tobacco on the tithables of the said parishes of St. Paul and Overwharton, in the same manner as they could or might have done before the passing of the said recited act. The sheriff or collector of the said county of Stafford shall colleet and account for the said tobacco in like manner as is prescribed in the case of county and parish levies.

CHAP. XV.

An act for repealing in part the act for establishing the town of Louis ville.

(Chap. Com in original.]

1. WHEREAS John Campbell and John Connolly Preamble being seized as tenants in common, of and in four thousand acres of land, lying at the falls of the Ohio river, did, on the sixth of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, execute each to the other a deed of partition of the said land, whereby the said John Connolly was to take one thousand acres at the upper end, and one other thousand acres at the lower end of the said tract, as his purpart. And whereas the said John Connolly being considerably indebted to the said John Campbell and Joseph Simon, and as a security for the payment thereof, did by deed bearing date the seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, mortgage to them the said two thousand acres of land. And whereas in May session, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, an act passed for laying off one thousand acres of land, then supposed to be the forfeited property of the said John Connolly,

11. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That as to those no person whatsoever, having or holding any place or holding pension from any foreign state or potentate, shall be pension uneligible to any office, legislative, executive, or judici- der foreign ary, within this commonwealth. prince or

III. And in order to preserve to the citizens of this Patentate commonwealth, that natural right which all men have of relinquishing the society in which birth or accident may have thrown them, and of seeking subsistence and happiness elsewhere, and to declare explicitly what

shall be deemed evidence of an intention in any citizen How a citito exercise that right; Be it further enacted, That when- zen may expatriate himsoever any citizen of this commonwealth, shall, by self.

pa. 213.

CHAP. XVII.

Chan, Rev An act prohibiting the migration of certain persons to this commonwealth, and for other persons.

Preamble.

1. WHEREAS it is just and necessary to prevent the admission into this state of those persons, who being either citizens or natives of some of the United States, have withdrawn themselves from their country, and actually been in arms, aiding and abetting the common enemy in their endeavours to subvert the rights and liberties of America: Be it therefore enacted That all persons who having accepted a military com mission from the United States, or any of them, or who having taken the oath of fidelity to any of the United States, or who baving been natives of, or residents in any or becoming of the United States, on the nineteenth day of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, or at any time since, have at any time during the late Es war voluntarily joined themselves to the fleets or armies of the king of Great Britain, and have borne arms

Description of persons prohibited from migra ting into this com monwealth,

citizens.