The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-04-02
BY AUTHORITY.

BY AUTHORITY.
For the Information of those persons concerned in
navigafiny Tarsrs Rioer above the /aHs The
fo"osr'ns dcts 81 assembly are Published by
authority Of the ExeeutiUe.
an Act for regulating the Navigafion of. .Tanes
River, above hefalis Of the said River.
PISSED the l7,h of December, 1871
1. - E ii enacted, That every person who
1Oshall be Proprietor of any boat or other
VESSEL which shall be employed in navigating
the wat rs of James River and its branches a.
bove the Great Falls at Richmond, in the trans
Portation of any produce or merchandise what
soever either raised or manufactured within
tins Commonwealth, or imported from any other
place without the same. shall m the Clerks Of
nee OF the County in which the said Proprietor
or Proprietors shall then live, enter the number
OF each boat or vessel, so to be employed, which
number, together with the name of the County,
and the name of the Owner or Owners Of such
ooat or vessel, shall be written or painted on
each side OF the said vessel, on some conspicu-
one part of the outside thereof, in large and
PLAN letters, not less than four inches in length
IL If the Owner or Owners of any boat or
vessel, which shall be employed in navigating
the waters of the said River, above the falls
thereof as aforesaid, shall fail to enter in the
CLERKS Office, as aforesaid, the name or names
OF the Owner or o wners, the name of the coun.
ty IN which he or they shall reside, and the
Humoer OF each boat or other vessel, as afore-
SAID, or snail fail to write paint the name or
names of the Owner or Owners of the said boat
or other vessel in manner above directed, SO as
to continue plain and legible as long as the said
boat or other vessel shall be employed in nayi-
cation, he, she, or they shsll forfeit and pay the
sum OF twenty shillinSs for every day he. she,
or they shall neglect to comply with the
purposes of this Act to be recovered by
any person who may sue for the same by
warrant from a Magistrate allowing the said
Owner or Owners one month after the first eav
OF April next, to attend to,he acquisitions afore-
said. Is
III THIS Act shall commence and he in
force, after the first day of Apriinext.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY begun and held
~ y; the Capitol in the City of Richmond OF,
Monday the third day of December, in the year
OF our lord one thousand eight hundred and ten.
and OF the commonwealth the thirty.ffth
An act 10 amend an act, entitled an act for re-
guiating the navigation of James River above the
falls of the said River. TPassed the 18th Febru
ary, i1811.1
Whereas it has been represented to the pre-
sent General Assembly, that the watermen ma
vigating James River and its branches above the
tails at Richmond, are daily in the practice of
committing depredations on the property of the
lnhab,tsnts of the county bordering on each side
thereof; for remedy whereof, -
BE it enacted 6y che General assembly, That
the Governor with the sdvice of Council shall
appoint fit person, who shall reside at the up
Pnr locks OF the James River Canal, & be denom-
mated " Inspector of Boats" whose duty it shall
be to enforce the Act, entitled IS an act for re.
guiating the navigation of lanes River above the
falls OF the ssd River" in every instance where
IN the Act has not been complied with, accord
ing to its true intent and meaning. And il shall
also be the duty of the said Inspector to perform
all necessary services to be performed, at and
near the said locks for enforcing this act and
he shall at all times be amenable to the Execu-
tive for his conduct therein. Every person an
pointed Inspector by virtue of this act shall, be-
fore he enters upon the execution of the said
office, enter into bond with good security, in the
penalty OF two thousand dollars, payable to the
Governor, for the time being, and his successors
IN otfce with condition for the true and faithful
performance of the duties of his Office. which
bond shall be recorded in the Court of tie Coun-
ty OF Henrico. And, in the name of the Govern
or or ms successors, any person or persons in
Jured, may and shall, at his, her or their costs
and charges, commence and prosecute suits on
such bond against the parties therein bound
their executors or administrators and shall and
may recover all damages which he, she or they
may have sustained by reason of the breach Of
the con dtion of the bond And such boad shall,
not become void upon the first recovery, OF if
Judgment shall be given against any plaintiff or
PLAINTIFFS who shall sue upon such bond but NAV
be put in suit and prosecuted from time to time.
tor ue dement,, ana at the proper costs and char
ges OF any party injured, until the penalty ex
pressed in such bond shall be recovered.-
And every Inspector shall also take an oath be
fore the Governor for the time being, or before
the court of the County Of Henrico, for the true
and faithful performance of the duties of his of
fice And If any person shall presume to exc
cute the office of Inspector, before he shall have
given bond and taken such cath as aforesaid, he
shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars.
No free Negro or M,.lstte shall be allowed 70
carry on board his boat any gun, rife or other
firearms, under pain of forfeiting the same to
the use of any white person who NAV seize
them any law to the contrary Notwithstanding
nor shall any owner of any slave permit hum To
carry such arms, under the like forfeiture -
If any waterman of color be found strolling from
his boat above the banks of the river or anv of
It's branches, while on a trip up or down, and
not at his usual place of abode, or at anv place
while loading, it shall be lawful for any person
or persons to carry him before the nearest ma
gistrate, who may cause him to be whipped
with any number of lashes not exceeding TWEEN
ty: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be
SO construed as to prevent wstermen from going
directly 10 and from any spring for the purpose
OF getting water and provided always that
when any waterman shall be ordered by any ma
glstrate TO receive any number of Iasbes he may
release himself therefrom by paying to the said
magistrate the sum of two dollars for the use
OF the poor OF his County or Corporation
And 1t any waterman watermen, being free.
shall hereafter be detected in burning or steal.
ing rails, or other wood already cut, cutting To-.
Gust or other trees. stealing grain OF any kind.
livestock of amy Find mr. otha. liz