Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-04-20

have performed the like terms of duty,
when the same routine is to be perform
ed again by the captains and subalterns
OF company number one, and so on
through the battalion; the same duty to
be performed in every battalion at the
same time. The officers for neglect of
duty fined twenty, and non commission
ed officers and privates, five dollars each.
Officers at liberty TO furnish as substi-
tutes, any other officer in the battalion :;
and privates any substitute approved by
their officers. The officers to be allow
ed one dollar and the privates seventy
hive cents Tor every twelve hours service,
to be levied by the courts of the coun-
ties in which they reside. The act not
to extend to the counties west of the
Allegheny mountains.
An act providing for the appointment
by the board of public works of one or
more agents or engineers for the present
year, and for other purposes; dis penses
with the principal engineer, and directs
the appointment of agents to make any
particular surveys already required by
law, with compensation at rate not
exceeding $1,000 per annum and their
necessary eXpenses-and fixes the sala-
ry OF the second auditor at eighteen
hundred dollars, to be paid, together with
the salaries of his clerks, out of the fund
for internal improvement and the literary
fund.
An act to amend an act, concerning
the general elections in this common
wealth prohibits electors from voting
for delegate to represent any election
district out of the county, city, town or
borough, in which such elector actually
lives, if he offers to vote as housekeep-
er and tax payer only, or in which his
land lies, if he votes as leaseholder,
ireeholder or upon interest in land; de-
clares that no election shall hereafter
continue more than three days; allow
ing the various officers required to exam
inc and correct the polls. three days in-s
stead Of two, in which to perform their
various duties; and prohibits delegates
from charging mileage for any other
than the most direct route to and from
the seat of government.
An act to provide for the appointment
of electors to choose president and vice
president ofthe United States; directs
twenty-five electors to be chosen by the
people on the first Monday in Novem-
Der and declares that the present con-
gressional districts shall be the districts
for the choice of electors, each voter to
vote for twenty-five persons, one of
whom shall reside in each district, and
the persons having the greatest number
OF votes to be elected, provided they at
tend at the capitol in Richmond at the
time appointed by law. In case offail-
ure in any eleetor TO attend, or in case
the state should be entitled to more than
twenty-five electors by the apportion-
ment ofrepresentation by the congress of
United States, the senate and house of
delegates at their next session to-choose
electors to supply the vacancy occasion
ed by absentees or to fill up the addition
al number TO which the state is entitled,
and in like manner if the state should be
entitled to less than twenty two, the le-
gislature to reduce the number to the
proper amount. If the legislature
should not be in session from any cause,
the same power is given to the governor
and council. The electors to have the
same compensation as the members of
the Legislature.