Virginia Argus — Richmond, Va., 1810-12-25 00:00:00, page 2

Tie 1 st, 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th reso
lutions being read a second time, were
»gr» d to by the House.
Ordered, That bills be brought in
pursuant to the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th
resolutions, add that the committee for
Courts ot justice do prepare and bring
in the same.
A petition was presented and read
from Sophia M’Caughen, praying to
be divorced from her husbaud Charles
M’Csftighen ;
And the question being put on the
reference of the said petition^ it pass
ed in the negative. f
Resolved, That the said petition be
rejected.
On motion, Resolved, iThat the
Ok of ihe House of Delegates be
directed to make an alphabetical sche
dule annually oi the several petitions
presented during the session, with a
sho» t analysis of each for the informa
tion of the next legislature.
Tie remainder of the sitting fras
occupied in the reading petitions^ See.
Tuesday, Dec. 18.
An engrossed bill 44 Incorporating a
library' company, in the town of Wa
terford, in JLoudon county,” was read
a th'i’cj time, add passed.
A report from the committee of Pro
positions and Grievances (which lay
on the table) was taken up and read in
the following words t
Tire committee of Pidpositions anti
Grievances have, according to order,
had undtr their consideration sundry
petitions to the ei referred, and have
co.lie to the following resolutions there
tin on :
1. Resolved, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of the town of Darks
ville, praying that an act may pass ex
tending the limits o. %.e said town, is
reasonable.
2. Re olved, as the opinion of this
committee. That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of tne counties oJ
Goochland, Powhatan, Cumberland &
Fluvanna, praying that an act may pass
preventing depredations committed oti
the* properly of persons residing on
Jair.eb river and its dependent bianch*
es, bv the navigators of boats, is rea
sonable.
3. Resolved, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of the counties of She*
nadoah and Rockingham, praying'hat
all that part of the county of Shenan
dbah contained within the following
bounds, to wit.* beginning at Passage
Creek, on the Frederick line, thence
with said line to the Culpeper line to
the top of the Blue ridge ^Chester’s
gitpj thence wi ll said ridge and Culpe
pi r line, to a point opposite tl\e head
of Naked creek, thence in a line ctos.
sing the south river at Valentine Sny*
der’s, to the top of the Massanutten
mount vn, thence with said mountain
to Pov/cli’s fort mountain, thr hex with
the North fort mountain to the top
of the Three top mountain near capt.
John Gttewood’s, thence with said
mountain o the Passage creek, thence
with said creek to the beginning, may
form one distinct county, be rejected.
4. Resolved, as the opinion of this
com mi tee, That the petition of sun
dr) inhabitants of the county of She
nandoah in opposition thereto, is rea
son able.
3. Resolved, ns the opinion of this
committee. That the petition bTJohn
Srabrnok, praying that an act may
s iiuiuuriamg mm 10 cstanusn »
public watehouse for the insp< ction of
tobacco in the city of Richmond, * is
reasonable.
0. Resolved at the opinion of this
committee. That the petition oi sun
dry inhabitants of the county of Fair.,
praying that aw act may pass es
t; bliabing a manufacturing society at
the town of* Occoquan is reasona
ble.
7. Resolved, ns the opinion of this
Committee, That the p tition of the
prt «sid< nt and directors o| the Potomac
company, praying that an act may
pas* allowing them the fuither time
of five years to complete the naviga
tion of the Potomac s»nd Shenandoah
rivers, is te.»sr nable.
8. Resolved, as the opit ion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry persons residing on the waters of
the Shenandoah river in opposition
thereto, be rejected.
The said resolutions being read a
second time, were agreed to liy the
House.
Ordered, Tfat bills he brought in
pursuant to the 1st, 2d, 5*h, 6th and
7th resolutions, and that t» er Commit
t« e of Proposition* a-d Grievances do
pi r '’are and bring in the same.
Mr. W\ a*t, from the Commuter of
1 repositions ant! Grievances made the
following report t
1 l>e Committee of Propositions and
(vances have, according to order,
had under their consideration sundry
petition* to them referred, and have
come tojthe following resolutions there
upon ;
1. Resolve!, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of the borough of Nor
folk praying that aft act may pass for;
widening Concord street, in the said
borough, twenty feet on its western
side, from the point where it unites
with Granby street, to the north side
Jf the main street, is reasonable.
2. Resolved as the opinion of this
committee. That the petition of sun-,
dry inhabitants of the town of Lynch
burg and elsewhere* praying that an
act may pass establishing a branch of
the bank of Virgiuia in the said town
of Lynchburg, is reasonable.
3. Resolved, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of the town of Win
chester and its vicinity, in the county
of Frederick, praying that an act may
pass establishing either an independent,
bank, or a branch of the bank of Vir
ginia in the Said town, is reasonable.
4. Resolved, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants oi the county of Har
risen, praying that all that part of the
said county contained within the fol
lowing bounds, to wit ; beginning on
the bank of Tigtr Valley river, at the
end of the main dividing ridge between
the waters of Buckhannon river and'
the waters of Llk creek, and with that
fridge to where it pares, and with that
part whic:i divide) the waters of Hack
er’s creek and Lost creek; anti with that
ridge to the West Fork rivir, & down
said river to the point of the ridtre a
bove.the mouth ot Isaac’s crerk and
with that ridge to the head of said
creek, thenc e a due west course to the
VVood county line so as to include all
the west part of the county of Harri
son, and back with the Randolph
county line to the beginning, may
torm one distinct county, is reasona
ble.
5. Resolved, as the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of sun
dry inhabitants of Harrison in oppO
j sition thereto, be rejected.
6. Rcsi.lveJ as the opinion! of this
committee, That the petition of Pat
ric k H. Fontaine, of the county of
Henry, praying that an act may pass
empowering the colonel of the sixty
fousth Virginia regiment to allow him
credit tor the amount of certain in
solvent muster fines, in the county of
Henry, lor the year one thousand
eight hundred and nine, is reason.i
ble.
7. Resolved, a3 the opinion of this
committee, 1 hat the petition of Sun
dry inhabitants of the county of Frank
lin, praying that an act may pass com
pelling the inspectors of tobacco to class
the same into firs', second, third and
fourth rate, at the time of inspection,
is reasonable.
8. K. solved, a*-the opinion of this
committee, That the petition of the
Female Humane Association, of the
city of Richmond, praying that an act
may pass tor incorporating the said
association, is reasonable.
x he 1st, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and
8th resolutions being read a second
time, were agreed to by the House.
1 he 3d resolution being read a se
cond time, was on motion, ordered to
be laid upon the table.
Ordered, T hat hills be brought in
pursue to the 1st, 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th
nni 8th resolutions, and that the Com
mittee of Propositions and Grievan»
ces <io prepare and bring in the same.
Mr. bay top, from the committee ap
pointed to examine the Clerk’s office
..I. .u„ _ • _
-- ...V svii n Uijj ICJJUI l •
1 he committee appointed to exa.
mine the f^Ier -cs office have, according
to order, performed that duty, and beg
leave to submit the following report;
! r committee find that the papers
from the year 1775 to the year 1809,
both years incl isive, are properly ar
ranged in the office.
J hat the Journals, written or prin
ted, irom the year 1769, to the year
1809, both years inclusive, are deposi
ted in the office.
And that the enrolled bills, from
1776 to 1809, both years inclusive,
are filed in the office, and neatly de
posited in t in cases.
Ordered, i hat the said report he
laid upon the table.
IVIr. M‘1* arlnr.c, from the Comnv lee
of Claims, made the following report :
1 he Committee of Claims have,
according to order, had under their
consideration sundry petitions to them
referred, and have come to the follow*
ing resolut ons thereupon ;
1. Kesolved, as the opinion of this
committer, I hat the petition of Samu
el Coleman, praying that the quartet's
salary which became due and payable'
to the adjutant general on the 4tb day
of Eccember 1810, may be allowed
him for hiving performed the servi
ces of that officer for that time, is rea
sonable.
2. Kesolved al-m, as the opinion of
this committee, That the petition of
James Beck, prayt2g the Lrgisl&lufc
would allow him compensation for the
loss of his right hand, when assisting
as one of a posse commitatus, sum
moned bv the scrjeant of the corpora
tion of Fredericksburg, in apprehen
ding a certain Simon Sexmith, on a
peace warrant, is reasonable.
Resolved also, as the Opinion of
this committee, That the petition of
Campbell M‘Cauley, stating that he
entered in the service of his coontry at
an early age, and served until Bu
ford’s defeat, in which engagement
he received two and twenty wounds,
and praying such compensation as the
Legislature may think proper, is rea
sonable.
4. Resolved also, as the opinion of
this committee, That the petition of
Thomas Galford, stating that he en
listed as a soldier, in the year 1776,
under captain Michael Bowyer, in
Virginia ; that at the battle of Bran
dy Wine he was wounded in the knee,
which has rendered him.a cripple ev
er since, and praying the Legislature
would make him such compensation
as they may deem proper, is reasona
ble.
Your committee beg leate report
from the petition of Thomas Ma
thews, who was a commissioner of the
revenue of the county of Essex that
some time before the March court,
held for the said county in 1810, there
were two men trading unlawfully in
the said county* in g >ckls of foreign
manufacture ; that by virtue of his
office he noticed them to March court
to answer for their i1W»l
and obtained judgment for g 100 j
that between the date of his notice and
the rendering jud^metit they removed
to Fredericksburg, where he followed
them and obtained the money; that
his expenses in prosecuting the judg
ment amounted to g 10 50 cfents, abd
praying that he may be allowed a
discount with the auditor or reimbur
sed in riny other way to the amount
thereofi
5. Resolved, as the opinioa of this
committee, That the prayer of the
said petition, is reasonable.
6. Resolved also, as the opinion of
this committee, That the petition of
Moses Shepherd and Benjamin Mills,
praying that the Legislature would re
fnnd to them the sum of g 1138 15
cents, which they were made to pay
as securities to Jacob Whitzel, who
was sheriff of Ohio county for the year
1803, be rejected.
T. he said resolutions being several
ly read a second time, were agreed to
by the Hou&e.
Ordered^ That bills be brought in
pursuance to the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4*h and
5th resolutions, and that the Com.
mittee ol Claims do prepare and bring
in the same.
Wednesday, Dec. 19.
The following bills were read a
third time and passed* viz,
4 Concerning Jingo and Janies Lott*
free persons of colour.
Releasing to Mary Anne Margaret
East the commonwealth’s right to cer
tain land therein mentioned—
To amend an act, entitled an act'
to establish an academy in the county
of Caroline—
An engrossed bill 44 Concerning the j
superior court of law, for the 14th
circuit, composed of the counties of
Accomack and Northampton/’ was
read a third time ;
Line section ot the said bnl is in the
following words, “ the judge of the
said circuit shall hereafter receive for
his salary annually the sum of
dollars, instead of the sum heretofore
allowed him by law”- -—A motion
was m.sde to fill the said blank with
the words “ one thousand ;” and the
question being put on the motion for
Idling the blank, it passed in the ne
gative. Ayes 65—Noes 89.
A motion was then made to fill the
said blank with &!*e words “ oine hun
dred and the question being put on
the said motion, it passed in the ne
gative. Ayes 75—Noes 85.
On motion, Ord red, That the said
bill be laid upon the table.
A bill “ For the more effectual sup
pression of S.ibbath breaking,” was
read a second tim*, and the question
being put on engrossing the said bill
and reading it a third time, it passed
io the negative.
Resolved, That the said bill be re
jected.
The house proceeded to consider the
report and resolution of the Commit*
tee of Privileges and Elections in the
case of John McKeon, one of the dele
gates from the county of Lee, which
was hereiofore laid upon the table.
The said resolution is in the follow
ing words:
Resolved, therefore, as the opinion
of this committer, That the foregoing
evidence adduced in ths enquiry direct
ed by the House of Delegates m;o tb •
conduct cf John M'Lc''-, one of the
‘delegates in this present general ns
sembly, from the county ot Lee, who
is represented to have been guilty ot
the crime of bigamy^ is not sufficient,
although entitled to the highest credit,
to establish the charge of bigamy a
gainst the said John M’Keon.
_ A motion was made to amend the
said resolution by adding to it the fol
lowing words: It is nevertheless prov
en to the satisfaction ot your commit
tee; that the said John M’Kcon has
been guilty-of conduct grossly immo
ral', disgraceful and highly reprehensi
ble, and as such, unworthy the charac
ter of a representative of the people;
Resolved therefore, That the said
John McKeon be expelled this house.
On motion, Ordered, That the said
report and resolution, with the propo
sed amendment; be laid upon the ta
ble.,
Mr* Otcy, from the committee ap
pointed to enquire into the causes of
the delay of business, &c. in the court
of appeals, made a report; rwhen the
house adjourned till to-morrow 12 o’
clock. . i
TiibRsQAT, December 20.
■' The House resumed the considera
tion of a report from the committee
appointed to examine into the causes
of delays of business ip the court of ap
peals, which was in possession of the
house when it adjourned yesterday ;
which report Was read in the following
words :
'T,U__^ _i .
- ,,v vwuiumnn; wuu WCIC appOITHCQ
to enquire into the causes of delay in
the adrtiinistration of justice in the
court of appeals, have, according to or
der, investigated that business as well
as they were able in the short period of
time within which it was necessary to
make their report.
^ our committee find that it very of
ten happens at the beginning of the
different terms, that a sufficient num
ber of the judges do not attend to con
stitute a court, and that considerable
delays are thereby occasioned : whe
ther this arises frotti causes which the
judges cannot controul, or from a cen
surable neglect of an imperious duty,
your committee cannot undertake to
determine—but your committee feel
prepared to say, that if the judges were
bylaw compelled to reside in Rich
mond, the delays from this source
might, in a great measure, be remov
ed.
Your committee also find, that ano
ther fruitful source of delay, is the in
terference of other courts during the
sitting of the court of appeals. The
interference and consequent delay ol
business in the court of appeals, is pe
culiarly injurious at and duriug the
October session, when no less than
three courts are occasionally sitting at
the same time in the capitol, to wit;
the court of appeals, the circuit court
of the United States, and the general
court, while the same set of lawyers do
the business in all these courts, to ac
commodate whom, produces the most
| grievous delays.
Your committee have also examined
into the number of causes tried at the
different terms for the last 12 “lonths,
and have ascertained that in March
last, whert the court sits bylawtwen
ty-four days, nine argued causes only
were tried—that at April term, which
continues fdrty-four days, thirty-two
argued causes were tried, and that at
October term, which continues fifty
five days, twenty-three causes were
tried, amounting in all at the three
terms above, to sixty-four argued caus
es.
' Your committee further eMf.
it is probable that the animosities which
have sprung up between two of the
Judges, which is too notorious not to
be generally known, has been another
and fruitful source of delay. IIow far
these animosities have gone, we are
unable to determine, nor can we say
that they have assumed such a shape
£s to merit either censure or a consti
tutional enquiry into the conduct of
the said judges.
Resolved, therefore as the opinon of
this committee, That the said judges
ought to reside in the City of Rich
mond, that the number should be aug
mented to five, that the lenght of their
session should be increased, and that
the interference of said sessions with
other courts ought to be removed as
far as practicable.
Ordered, That the said report and
resolution be l?id upon the table.
The following bills were read a
third time and passed, viz.
Concerning William Robinson.”
“ Establish-ng a town in the county
of Wood, and for other purposes.”
“ Concerning the reverend Willian
Harrison, of the town of Petersburg.”
** Appointing commissioners to cn'
lect certain monies due the county n#
Stafford, and for other purposes.”
■mult .wg-l»!!_r ■ j■■■■■* ■ 1 nr-’. .. _a 1
Ats Ch-nory Ccurt,held in Wiihams- !
h» g the 1+ 'i day of July, 1808.
John Bracken, surviving ixccutor t*f Mary Mar*
Ph£ Phf.
against
Joseph Durham, Larkin Detluzn, Benjamin
Hoomes,_ Landrn Carter, and Courtney hit
wife, Will urn Armittead and Ann hi* wlfj
and George H Norton, and Daniel N. Nori
ton, infants, by John Ambler rheir guardian,
assigned to defend them in this suit, and Hugh
Holmes, administrator, with the will annexed,
of John H. Norton, Defts.
This cause came on this day to be beard on
rbe bill, answers of tbe defendants, Lar_
kin Deshazo, Bcnjn, Hooraes, George Hand,
Daniel N. Norton and Hugh Holmes, and exhi
bits, and was argued by counse!_jn considers,
tion whereof the court doth adjudge, order and
decree^ that unless die defendants or one
of them, do, on or before the first day of Jann*
ary next, pay unto the plaintiff three hundred and
six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, with
interest thereon, tet be computed after the rate
of five per centum per annum, from the first dar
of July, 1789, till paid, and his costs by him ex.
pended in the prosecution of this suit, the said
defendants and ihfcir heirs and all persons claim,
ing under them, be from thenceforth based and
foreclosed of all eqqpy a^id ri-ht to redeem the
tra<R of land in the county of K-'ng and Queen
mentioned in the indenture of mot tgage filed as
“ exhibit made the . day of Apr I, 1791,
be.ween John Hatley Norton of the one part
and Robert Andrews and Jehrt Bracken exi’r£
of Mary Murphy, deceased} o.F the other part a
and in case of default in the payment of the *aid
2?b*-» J":*re,t *nd co#ts ftt time aforesaid,
that William Fleet, Ro. B. Semp'e Richard
Brooke, Wtlarti Todd n i Samuel G. Faun le.
roy or any two ot ihem, after giving four weeks
previous notice in one ot the Richmond Newspa
pers., do expose to public r^e by Aufl.on for
ready m-ney, subjeft to the dower therein of .he
wt.'ow ot John H. Norton, deceased, the trafl of
land in the said indenture mentioned, and out 0f
the proceeds of the sale ray unto the plaintiff
his said flebr, interest and costs, and thenur, |u,.
it any, atte^ deducing the expeuses attendant on
such sale, pay unto the defendant Bern Holmes
Anri vn.lr* j »
--* iu orcer
to a ii.ial decree.
A Copy.
Anthony Robinson, c. c<
Agreeable to the above decree, will be expos*
ed ip public sale, at King & Queen coor-hoate.
on Mondfcy IDO 14>li day of J&nu&rv r,evi jt
Ing court day. the T a A of Land m. ntioned in
the said decree, for ready tnomv, by t •*
Cenmusaioner*.
At a Chatifeeiy bistro. court be;d at \V Itiams*
. J>urK 2»*h d 7°t Ju'y, ;fh>9d
Josiah Hy.aud and Catharine his \vi e, Thomas
Armts-e.vi and Jsneh s wife, and William r.
Colston and t&uzaheth his wile,- Hitts*
against
John Nicholson and Rartliolomy McCarty,
ON motion of the deft* Jo* NicholsoAwits
counse., he is prr u«d to t.|e his .n.wvr
in tnu cause, and for rta: -ns apr aring tnecourt
do h refer the accounts between .he. I’.ut lotith
RyUnd and Catharine !,i* wtfr ,,,* ,a,J,
feuaan., to one of the Com.' ,doner, of this’
SJ.*12* li cxtta,"e- *nd
tie tbb same, and make report i.ieteof to the
court with any matter, specially sts-tH. r.,0,»ga* .
pertinent by himself or required by • tlef,
A wopjr.
Anthony Robinson, c. c.
The parties concerned are hereby notified • »hae
I have appointed the 14 U day o January next
for the purpose of taking account directed br
this order* '
Wm. Coleman, M.-C*
Commissioner*. Office. Dec. 20, 1810—3tw
Manchester Turnpike Company.
A mc?‘ing of Directors of the Manchester
Dec 1810 Plk“ C°mpany-* °a Thur‘d“y tie 20th
RhSOLVED. That the clerk be, and he is
hereby instructed to adverite a meeting-of Stock
holders to beheld at Mr. Bronx'sTavern in
Manchester, on Tuesday the 22d of next Janua*
rj. Ey order of the Directors*
Jaiiieg Brander, Clk.
ti9 hj
T^LNACPK1ilORSFFI0llrn,,y,J °n Uil Ia,,d»
* BLACK HORSE, supposed to be eight or
nine years rid abom four feet ten inches high a
star m his forehead, and a snip on his noseJJ
foldsh^i A iSV!!1*!? *hod all round,
(old shoes) docked tail and hanging mane_Ap.
praised to seventy-five dollars. P
Powhatan county, D*c,19, 1810. w3t.
1 ,nJ;,r,«« "»« "Conveniences sus
tamed for a tong course of time by the sub ‘
embers from persons who pas, through their
lands, some for the purpose of hunt £ fia,
mg, and others trespassing under those oril
texts, compel them for the protection of tLin
property, to put an entire stop to such practice.
Were it possible to distinguish between tlm,-'
who commit no injury amfothers, the .uhscri
kers would do so w.th pleasure ; but as this il
impossible rtie prohibition must he l' ner»l
We do therefore lorbid all persons from r>
"I1* t,,rouS,\ ***r lands or ranging on ,Lm
wimout permission, under the penalty ofh»
ing proceeded against as trespassers.
Thomas iiurton, Jtichd Cur. ,
fj* rm. S. Smith,
Z™ IT*"' y Mihail.
/? Gervat Stone.
iH! wlapt°ni t**" True hearti
Wrlt'f Burton, J
Mary Cray, Sami. P. pJ„njt
Be4.Du.Val, yo'.C.PuZZ]
November 23, 1810.
LAND FOR SALF..—Pursuant to a Decree
of the connty court of Prince Edward, will
** “> ,h« highest bidder, on a credit of
t welve months, the
Tract of Land,
whfr-on Js'oe, Taylor now rriides, lying on tha
israie'S of Vaughn , creek, In said county, ad«
otnirg -he Ian t» of Robert Elam, John Andrews
*nd others, containing four hundred acres (,uk
left to two e’cg*t») or ,0 much thereof as will be
lulficlent to n*y the sum of fifty one pounds etc.
ren shilling! and nine pence, with interest from
be 1st of November, 1801, and alto the s<m of
linety two ttoundf, with interest fmm the 4th
nebr„ary, 1307 tin*il paidj and he costs, which
•imt are due from the said J*n>e, T.aylor t<»
■■JatW. Dick,ik Co. The sale wi:l take place oh
he pre*ni»es, on Monday the 28<h January next,
u.d a ti le made ay he
’Commissioners.
Pr’nceEdward, 20ih December, 1810.n-h rp