Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-05-01

a local nat0 {, as are oeerned interesting 10
any porter Of our readers:--[coScLUDED.l
An act autborising the Government
of the United States TO purchase certain
lands on Smiths Point, and for other
purposes; to enable them TO rebuild
the light house thereon, but if it be not
erected within seven years, or shall be
rendered useless for that period the ju
risdlction over the said land reverts TO
The Commonwealth.
An act giving the assent of this State
to an act further to amend the act IN
cooperating the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company. passed by the state
of Maryland; authorizes aliens to SUI
scribe to the stock Of the company, and
if ne cessary, an agent to be appointed
to visit Europe for that purpose; pre-
scribes that the shares shall be deemed
and taken as personal estate land repeals
so much Of the act Of 1924, as declares
"that no payment shall be demanded
within any year from the commence ment
of the work"
An act prescribing additional rules
concerning the Authorization of deeds;
provides that any power OF attorney, or
other deed which shall appear by the
certificate of the clerk of any court OF
record in the United States or any terri
tory or district, TO have been acknowl
edged before such court, OF to have
been proved by the number of witnesses
required by the laws OF this state, shall
be evideneein any court in the Com
monwealth, il the seal of the court be
annexed, or where no seal exists, the
certificate Of the presiding Judge OF the
authenticacy of such clerks certificate,
and any such deed may be admitted to
record; and declares, that the certifl
cate of the clelk Of any county or cor
poraton in this state, that any deed had
been recorded. shall be sufficient to au
therise any other clerk to admit the same,
as it proved or acknowledged therein.
An act TO amend the laws in relation
10 the jurisdiction of the Court OF APP
pesls and for other purposes; prescribes
that no decree of any court of equity
shall be reversed for want Of replica
ton TO the answer where the defendant
has taken depositions, as if there had
been replication. nor for informally
where it appears that substantial justice
has been done the parties; where there
has been appeal, and the cause reman
ded, and subsequent appeal, only the
proceedings subsequent 10 the FIRST ap
peal TO be carried W, that no appeal
from an order dissolv Dg an injunction
shall revive the same, until the plaintiff
shall execute bend and security to pro
secute to effect. sc. aud the security 10
the appeal bond shall be answerable to
the security in the Injunction bond for
the amount due at the time Of the appeal
if he shall have paid and satisfied the
same; and may institute suit on the
appeal bond therefore; that no appeal
shall be granted from an interlocutory
decree Of a Superior Court of Chancery
except by the Court of appeals, but the
Chancery Courts and the Judges in va
cation may suspend their execution if
the party desiIous of appealing shall en-
ter into bond with security, binding him
to pay costs, Sc; and requires the re
porter of the Court of appeals, to pub
lish in an appendix to each volume of
hisreports the decisions OF the General
Court comprising in the next volume
all cases decided since the Cd volume
of Virginia Gases.
An act concerning lands returned de
linquent for non payment o. taxes; ex
oneFates from the arrears of taxes and
the damages thereon due previous to the
purchase, allpersons whose lands have
been returned delinquent for nonpay-
ment of said taxes, in the same manner
as if a deed therefore had been recorded
anterior to the date aforesaid, aud any
other person, who, prior 10 the said
date, without actual notice Of the exis-
tenca of such arrearages, bonafde con
tracted to pay to any person other than
the vender, the purchase money of said
land; authorizing any person who may
have been. or shall hereafter be,chaPged
with damages for failure to have bis
lands entered on the commissioners
books, to apply To the county or corpo.
ration court to be exenerated freTo the
payment thereof, and If he court be
satisfied that the omission proceeded
from no fraudulent inteni,it may release
the damage, except ten per cent; enlar
ges the time limited by the LIST, Cd and