Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-01

certifying each list of fines, required by the act
passed 10Th Feb. 1927.
14i. An act TO alter and amend the laws against |
the keepers and exhibitors Of unlawful games |
gives concurrent jurisdiction TO the county and |
corporation courts; authorises the issuing of as |
many capiases against offenders the court, or
Judge IN vacation, may direct, after presentnient
made or indictment found directs the officer cx-
ecutng the capias 10 deliver the person arrested
10 the court, If in session, 10 the Tailor of the
county or corporation, if the court be not in ses-
sion makes il discretionary with the court or
Judge 10 allow bail; but denies bail in all cases
after Judgment, the punishment Tin lieu Of that
now prescribed by lawl TO he Imprisonment in the
Jail not less than nor than s months, and a
fine not less than $500 or more than $500 at the
discretion OF the jury if the fine be not paid be-
fore the expiration of the term of imprisonment
the offender to reman in Jail till the fine be paid
provided the additional term does not exceed the
period OF months, to be determined at the discre-
ton OF the court; the act 90 take effect from the
LIST day Of May next
las. An act concerning the trustees Of New
London Academy; authorizes them to contract
with int persons TO raise the residue of the sum of
ten thousend pounds authorised 10 be raised in
I7g6.
ll6. An act authorisng the Government of the
United States TO purchase certain lands on Smiths
FONT and Tor other purposes; TO enable them TO
rebuild the light house thereon, but il it be not
erected within seven years, shall be rendered
said land revcrts 10 the Commonwealth.
HI. An act concerning the appointment of
Commissioner of the Revenue for the county @:
Greensvilic; legalizes the appointment made by
Tie court oil the said county at the last November
court.
li5. An act fixing Amelia Superior court days;
repeais the act OF the present session; and fixes
the court days TO the first Monday after the fourth
Monday in April and September (See No. 10y
li9. An act allowing Ben Hord, free man of
colour, TO remain in the Commonwealth.
i5o. An act giving the assent Of this State to AN
act further TO amend the act incorporating the
chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company passed by
the State OF Maryland; authorizes aliens to sub
scribe TO the stock OF the company, and necessary
an agent to be appointed to visit Europe for that
purposes prescrbes, that the shares shall be deem
Gu anu taken as personal estate;, and repeats so
much OF the act of 1924 declares that no pay
inent shall be dems2sed within any year from the
! commencement of NE work.
Isl. An act prescribing additional rules concern.
ing the naturalization of deeds; provides that any
! power oil attorney, other deed which shall an
pear by the certificate of the clerk of any court of
record in the u. s. or any territory or district 10
have been acknowledged before such court, or TO
nave been proved by the number of witnesses re-
CURED by the laws OF this State shall he evidence
| any court in the Commonwealth, if the seal of
the court be annexed, or where no seal exists the
certificate of the presiding Judge of ule authenti-
city OF such clerks certificate, and any such deed
may be admitted TO record; and declares that tho
certificate of the clerk of any county or cornoratio
| IN TINS State, that any deed had been recorded
shall be sufficient to antboise any other cler 10
admit the same TO record in his office, TO have
the same elect as if proved acknowledged
therein
l52 An act 10 amend the laws in relation 70 the
JuiSdicuon OF the Court of Appeals and for other
purposes prescribes that decree of any court of
equity shall be reversed for want of repcation 10
the answer where the defendant has taken deposi-
TONS as If there had been replication nor for in
ormality where II appears that substantial i,lsce
has been done the parties; where there has been
appeal and the cause reinanded and a SUBSEQUENT
appeal only the proceedings subsequent to the first
appeal TO be carried up; that no appeal from an ore,
dissoiving an injunction shall revive the same. un
III the plaintiff shall execute bond and security IN
prosecute 10 effect, &c and the security in the an
peal BOND shall be anSwerabe to the security in te
injunction bond for the amount due AT the limo os
the appeal If he shall have paid and satisfied the
same: and may institute suit on the appeaI hopd
thercior' that no appeal shall be granted from an
lnteriocutory decree of Superior Court of Chan
Gerry except by the Court of Appeals but the Chan
Gerry Courts and the Judges in vacation may s,,s
pend their execution if the party DESTROYS of appeal
ing snail enter into bond with security, binding
MN 10 pay COSTS &c. and requires the reporter Of
the Court of Appeals to publish in an apnendix n
each volume oil his reports the decisions of the
Generai Court comprising in the next volume all
cases decided since the I'd volume of Virginia Ca
1853 An act concerning lands returned delin-
quent Tor on-payment of taxes; exonerates from
the arrears oil taxes and the damages thereon dine
previous TO the purchase, all persons whose lands
nave been returned delinquent for non-pavmert
OF SAID taxes, IN the same manner as if deed there
Tor hadbeen recorded anterior to the date aforesaid
anu any DINER person, who, prior TO the said date
without actual notice of the existence of s,,cb Az
rearages bona tide constructed to nav 10 any nerso
otner than the vender the purchase nancy
o. said iand; auti crising any person who NAV
nave been, or shall heraiter be, charged with
damages Tor failure to have his lands entered on
the commissioners books, to apply to the county or
corporation court TO be exonerated from the nav
ment thereof, and if the court be satisfied tbst H.
omission proceeded from no fraudulent intent
1t may release the damages, except ten NOR reut
charges The time limited by the Ist I'd and I'd
sections OF the act on this subject, passed March
oth 1877, 20 the period Of II months further and
authorises the President and Directors of the
Literary Fund to vest in stock the whole or anv
part OF the uninvested principal and surplus in
terest oil the SAID Fund which has accrued or may
accrue before the Both OF September next
l3l. An act to incorporate the Chesterfield rail |
ROAD Company provides that the capital stool,
snail be one hundred thousand dollars the road 10
commence at an intermediate point between die !
coal mines OF Nicholas Mills and Beverly Ran.
aolPh, passing ON the South side Of the MSncbes. |
ter turnpike, and after passing the MANCHESTER
ana petersburg Turnpike, TO run on the DIVIDING
me between the town Of Manchester and the /
alls Plantation, to the dividing line Of lots No |
80 and 3Il and thence down James Rive ~ - |
point opposite Rocketts
(1o be COnfinuedj
WAsHINGToN, FEB IS
4 he question which has for several DAYS been !
pending before the Senate was Yesterday decided /
in favor oil amending the rules. We entered the !
HAL atthe moment that Governor TYLER was con- |
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