Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-09-30

\ and be in force from the passing thereof
sunless in the a6t itself another day for the
} 4" commencement thereof, be particularly
mentioned; and, in the former case, the
day of passing thereof, shall be noted
, "uext after the title" In 1899, (jour years
afterwards,) OO an ACT passed, the 2pd
section of which, declares, that, E" Every
act passed during any stated annual ses,
sion, shall commence in force on the first
t"day OF March, then next ensuing, dness,
lin the ACT itself, another day be parii-
cularly mentioned for the commencement
thereof" The committee of revisors re-
ported bill, the title of which, was, "a
J Bill concerning election of members of
! General Assembly; and declaring when
acts of assembly shall commence in force"
! c. J In this bill, they retained such part.
ofthe act Of 1855 as were in force, and par
ticularly substituted the 2nd section of the
ACT of 1899 for the 22nd section of hs ael
OF 1885. a. But when the aet Of 1885
was republished from its title, the 22nd
section vas, of course retained. ard the
End section of The act of 1889 rejsGted.
The above is but one, among many in.
stances, in which laws in force were omit
ted in the Revised Code, from the peculi.
ar mode of publication.
Another circumstance which produced
many omissions was this The legisla-
lure, in providing for republication of
he laws BY the act Of 1872, d. dire6,ed
that the Declaration OF Rights, and Con-
stiu,ion of this Commonwealth, should be
prefixed 10 the Code that certain acts
!, should be published from their tides AMI
that these, together with the laws, as re-
vised and enacted during that session,
=. should be printed but, with respect to the
acts of a public nature originally passed q,
The session of 1892, The law was silent.
This edition was no. printed tll the year
1894 and, though it purported TO contain
all the public aGls from 1872, to l794.
inclusively, yet it will be found that some
of those which, for the frs, time, passed
a; the session OF 1899, were omitted as
well as others of 1898, and l7e4 An
a6t of 1872, To amend - An act au,hori
" sing the Executive 10 direct the sheriffs
) {" to sell certain lands the property of the
4" commonwealth" and another, " To pro.
"vide more effsctually for the collectior
" of the public taxes in certain case p
which we're omitted in the edition of 1894
were very properly introduced into the
Iappsndix TO that of 1903, (k } But the
J acls for s arranging the counties into dis
"tricts, to choose representatives TO con
T" gress;" |" repeating the act providing ;
sinking fund for the gradual redempa
" lion of the public debt - Sc repeating so
"much of former law as prohibited the
q sale OF goods, wares and merchandise
, at public vendue ;" and "for appointing
4" electors to choose President and Vice
: I" President OF the United Staies," were o.
mtted in both editions. They are there
fore inserted in this, ~ Until the ae'
Of 1922, law was in force which probi-
bited, under severe penalties, the sale Of
goods at au6lion..-It is only by the Ont
: section of the act Of the same session, foI
appointing electors to choose President
r and Vice President of the United States
that the time is positively fixed Tor the
people to meet, to vote for electors IL.
act of 1903, (nI. J only declaring, that tht
persons qualified to vote for electors, un
: der the "act for appointing electors t.
c choose President and Vice President o
G the United States" shall each hereafte
n vote for twenty four electors, without say
ing at what time they are to meet for tina
purpose.
81 The edition of 1908 contained all the law
= in that of 1894; and continued down the
:. lpublic acts to the end of the session of 1901
i besides some acts of public nature insert
e ed in the appendix.
1t would be useless here to euumerate al
: the acts of public nature which have beer
u omitted in the late revisals, as an inspection
e Of Appendix No. TX. to this volume will e1l
:, lhibit them at one view. Two of those acts
e are, however, of such general Importance
s, that it is deemed proper to notice then
|. more particularly. BY an act passed i
ii 1894, entituled, can act to amend the &C
o prescribing the mode of ascertainirg tn
:. taxable property within this commonwealth
; and of collecting the public revenue" IN
% there was legislative exposition of the $50
y section of the same act, as it passed in 1872
IS IN by which, it was declared, that no Ian
d should be deemed forfeited for the non-pay
d ment of taxes, unless the returns and Hoti
r. ces prescribed by the saith section Of IN
r. same law had been made and given.
70 1896, another act passed, declaring, tina
" all entries thereafter made shall becom
= void, unless surveyed within two years ate
j. their date, and the lands subject to anothe
-
l. (E See Appendix No. TX. p. (io4
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