Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-03-03

An act to amend the act, entitled. 81 an
act for preventing tresspassss declaring
what shall be deemed lawful Enclosure:
for preventing infection of horned cattle.
and losses from drivers thereof passing
through the commonwealthn--By this act
stone wall four feet in height is declared
to be lawful Enclosure 49,
An act Incorporating trustees of Shop
herdstown Academy IN the county of JET.
ferson.
An act for Incorporating the Bible socie-
ty of Virginia.
An act, :" to provide for the payment of
that part Of the direct tax of the Jasted
States which was apportioned to the CON-
monwealth of Virginia ;'--assumes the pay
ment of Virginia's quota, into the treasury
of the union, on or before the 10th OF Fo-
bruary, 1914.
An act, to authorize the payment Of
military expenditures" empowers the Exc
cutive to cause to be paid any expendi-
lures heretofore incurred, or hereafter to
be incurred, for the support, equipments
and transportation of any part of the mi
ltia of this commonwealth to the place Of
rendezvous and appropriates the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars.
An act, $ concerning Chancery courts,r
divides the districts for which superior
courts of Chancery are holden at Rich
mond and Williamsburg into four districts.
The counties Of Amelia, Brunswick Char
lotte, Buckingham Halifax, Chesterfield,
Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna, Gooeh-
land, Greenville, Hanover, King s, Queen,
Henrico, King William, Louisa, Lunenburg,
Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward, p.
George, Sussex and the city of Richmond
and corporation OF Petersburg compose one
district Court to be holden at Richmond,
the first day of January and the first Of
June in every year--The counties of Am
herst, Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Hem
ry, Patrick and Pittsylvania, and the cor
poration of Lynchburg compose another
district Court to be holden at Lynch
burg on the first day of May, and the first
day of October in every year--The coun-
ties Of Aceomack, Charles City, Elizabeth
City, Giocester, Isle of Wight, James City.
Mathews, Middlesex, Nansemond, New
Kent, Norfolk, Northamton. Princess Anne,
Surry, SOUTHAMPTON, Warwick and York.
and the Borough of Norfolk compose a
third district Court to be holden at Will
liamsburg on the Goth day of May, and
18th day of October in every year-And'
the counties of Caroline, Culpeper, Eau
quier, Fairfax, Lancaster, Northumber-
land, madison, King George. Orange, p.
William, Richmond, Spottsylvania, Stat
ford, Essex and WestmoreIand and tho
Corporation of Fredericksburg compose
fourth district Court to be holden at
Fredericksburg on the 18th day of April
and 18th day of September in every year
The Judge of the court of Chancery now
holden in Richmond is to hold courts in
the iirst and second districts, and reside
at. Richmond and the Judge of the
court of Chancery now holden i'm Will
ia to hold courts in the Sd and
4th dist riots, and reside at Williamsburg.
Each Judge is to receive the salary now
allowed by law. This act contains many
other provisions Chiefly copied from form.
err laws) concerning the distribution of suits
now pending, and orders for revivor, &C..
to be entered by the clerks of the several
courts at rules in their respective Offices.
One provision, however, is new, and very
important; in the following words: The
Judges of the several Superior courts of
Chancery within this commonwealth shall
have and exercies gener raj jurisdiction in a.
warding injunctions and writs ne exeat,
whether the judgment, or proceeding, en-
joined be rendered by superior or INFER
Tor court within or without their respective
districts, or the Iarty against whose pro-
ceeding the injunction be asked, or against
whom a writ of ne exeat be awarded, be
resident of the District, or districts of the
Judge awarding the same but the order,
of the Judge awarding an Injunction or
ne exeat to judgement or proceeding, or
against a person not within his district
or districts, shall be directed to the clerk
of the court of that district in which such
judgment be rendered, or proceeding APP
or defendant resides on which
such proceedings in all respects shall be
thereafter had, as if the order had been
made by the Judge in whose district or
districts such judgment may have been
rendered, proceeding lad, or apprehended,