Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1805-02-15


and an exhonOreteur shall be entered on
record, in the court where the under
takingwas made, and the special bail
shall be discharged: Provided, that the
special bail shall give immediate notice
thereof to the creditor, his agent, or
attorney at law, ifiiving in the district
or county where the suit was brought !;
ifnot, then the jailor's receipt shall be
fled with the clerk Of the court, and a
receipt taken therefor, which shall be
deemed sufficient notice. Nothing in
this act contained shall prevent any per-
son so surrendered, from giving other
special bail rs heretofore.
6. An act, to amend an act, entitled
"An act to amend and reduce into one
"the several acts Of the General Assem-
ably for regulating the Militia of this
Commonwealth" The commanding
officer ofeach brigade. shall direct the
training, the oaicers, and regimental
musters, to be held in each regiment,
in October and November, and the re
gimenral muster shall immediately sue
coed the framing OF the officers, which
ahall last TIT ee DAYS, EXCEPT where there
are mare tn an one regiment in county,
in viii h case the trainings shall be as
heretofore. The brigade inspectors
shall ~harge mileage only for one circuit,
and the hr,saItirr general shall so arrange
the training and mustrrs, as to make
only one circuit necessary: Provided,
that no inspector shall receive less than
100 dollars. Any officer removing from
his county, or the bounds Of his regi-
ment, or failing to perform the duties
Of his Office for 9 months, shall be con-
sidcred as having resigned, and the va
cancy filed as in ether cases; unless
such officer is employed abroad in the
aerxice Of this state, or the u. States.
The adjutant shall be allowed not ex-
ceeding six dollars, for each DAYS at
tendance at the reeimental and battalion
m"s,ers, and training the officers the
clerks Of the courts Of enquiry not ex-
ceeding 8 dollars, for each days attend.
ance on said courts, and 4 dollars for
each list OF fines made out as required
by law the provost martial not exceed
ing ; dollars, for each days attendance
en- the courts Of enquiry. The com.
handing officer Of each troop Of cavalry
and company Of artillery shall hereafter
report his delinquents to the command
ing officer OF his battalion, in@which such
delinquent resides. rheqexeeutive are
no lougeremPowered to issue commits
sions tor more than one troop Of cavalry
to each regiment. The CLERKS. of the
courts OF enquiry shall transmit to the
auditor, a certified copy OF the sheriff's
receipt for each list OF militia fines, with
acopy OF such list; and such certified
copy ef,he sheriff 5 receipt shall be evil
dence on a motion against him, for such
6nes.
=. An act concerning seamen-.Altho'
this law IS OF a general nature yet its O.
prratI0n must NECESSARILY be confined to
parocuiAr parts OF The state. 1t is in
4 conformity with the law of Congress,
and merriy authorizes a magi,trate to
1Pprehend any seaman, not being CHI.
zen OF this state, or any OF the United
States, who deserts from the vessel on
board Of which he had contracted to per.
form service and restore him to the
commander thereof. From the general
tenor efthe aetof 1890, ffpassed. ia con.
seqnenee of:a seaman having been sent
from Norfolk to be tried in a FOREIGN
court, on suspicion of being an accom-.
pliee~ ira mdtinv on bo1rd of a British
vessel Of war the magistrates had re-
fusrh to issue warrants to apprehend de-
Scrtcrs. cxen from merchant vessel
8. An act to amend the act to prevent
the circulation Of private Bank Notes.
In the year lzs5, an act passed prohi-
biting the circulation of private Bank
Notes, payable to bearer, under certain
penalties. A private association in "A.
lexandria, without charter, under the
name ofthe Bank of Pn,owmac, have
evaded the law, by issuins their notes