Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1820-04-01

| copies additional, Of the first edition Of
| the work: whereupen the Governor
| with the advice Of council, shall direct
the auditor to issue a warrant in favor
OF said reporter for the sum of SIS 5
| cents for every 100 pages contained in
+, each copy Of the said work, to be paid
| out oil any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated. The said
copies received on behalf of the com.
monwealth shall be distributed, as
follows; viz. one copy 10 each clerk
OF the superior and inferior courts for
the use OF their respective courts; one
copy to each of the judges Of the cour.
OF appeals. general court; cad superior
courts of Chancery; one copy to the
attorney general, and to each Of the
attornies for the commonwealth in the
superior or inferior courts; and the
remaining copies shall be sold for the
public benefit, for the price of ST for
every 100 pnges. in such manner as
tho Exeeatiye shall order and direct.
i \: reporter 20 appointed' shah liolr:
, his office tlnfipg the pleasure Of the
couri of appeals.
f5s. An net, 'tn amend cn act, en-
titled. 'an act reducing Into one all
acts. and parts of acts, concerning the
superior courts of ehapcery, provides
that, during any vacancy, by death,
sc. in the office OF marshal. process
may he executed by the Sheriff, as for
merry and that the fee tn the clerk of
the general court aud to the clerks of
the superior courts Of chancery for a
search, shall be is cents, instead of 81
cents, as allowed 10 the new Revised
Co de.
:,15e. An act, sto amend an act re-
ducins into one the, several acts pre-
scvihin5 the mode of ascertaining the
taxable property within this comMon,
wealth, and of collecting the public
revenue, provides, that the courts os
the counties Of Amherst, Berkeley,
Cumberland, Fairfax, Gooehland,
Hampshire, Hardy, Isle nf Wight,
King Il Queen, Louisa, Lunenbnrg,
Monroe, Orange, Ohio, Prince Ed
ward. Princess Anne, Priuce William,
PendletoD, Russell, Scott. Sussex, and
Stafford, shall hereafter be authorized
to appoint one commissioner of the
revenue only ard the counties Of
FREDERICK, Fauquier, and Loudoun, to
appoint two such commissioners only.
The court Of =. the several counties
aforesaid are authorized to allow each
commissioners a sum not exceeding
$500. The courts. of CabeIt, Giles,
Nelson, Nicholns, Preston, Tazeweli,
aud MorSaa, are ID appoint each oue
q tUh
TO be the same as that allowed in the
counties not specified in this act.
The commissioners for each county
whic', has been established since the
new assessment, are to apply to the
commissioners Of the counties of which
such new counties were part, and from
the tables OF assessment furnished by
the auditor. compile correct list OF
all the lands in ouch new county, in
the. form Of those tables a COPY
whereof shall be transmitted 10 the
auditor on or before the ,1st Of Sept.
next, and the auditor as to correct his
tables OF assessment, by striking from
the list ali such tracts OF land as here
to!ore composed any part or the whole
Of sneh new county !; and the table so
furnished shall be og equal. validity
with the other tables in his Office and
be shall also charge the amount there
OF in the same manner es that Of other
couniies ; and the commissioners of
any such euunty, which composes
part OF new county, shall also
strike from their list all lands con.
ia ined in such new counties.
$50. An act, schaugins the time
of holding the superior courts Of law
in the county OF HARRISON to the 1st
Monday in April and September, in
stead of the time heretofore prescribed
b6 lew.
f6t. An act 'to amend the act, to
reduce into one the several acts con-
corning the Auditor and Treasurer,
provides, that the auditor Of public ae-
counts shall keep general ledger Of
accounts iuio which a.! the Enhances
due to or from this Commonwealth
shall be brought; and at the end Of
each fiscal year, the unsettled accounts
on the said book shall be balanced and
the balances carried forward TO the
Socks of the succeeding year. And it
shall, moreover, be the duty Of the
auditor to lay before the General As.
sembly, at each session, list of all
unsatisiied claims due TO or from this
commonwealth, corresponding with the
balances struck on his books at the ter
miuation OF the last fiscal year. with
such marginal notes as will shew the
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