Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-05-10

out of parts of Giles and Tazewell.
Ill. An act to authorize separate
election at Barrett's store, in the coun.
ty of Accomack.
liz. An act TO incorporate a savings
Bank at Charleston in the county
of Kanawha, with the usual powers OF
other institutions Of the kind in the
State.
1I3. An act to amend the several
acts relating to lunatics and their es-
tates provides that it shall not, in flu
ture be required of the courts commit
ting lunatics to either of the hospitals,
to ascertain or direct what amount
shall be paid out of their estates for
their transportation or maintenance,
in order to charge their estates but
such expenses shall be ascertained by
the directors Of the hospitals, be certi-
fled to the auditor aud debited TO the
committees Of such lunatics, and re-
quires when persons charged with any
criminal offence, shall be found by in.
QUESTION, taken before the court, to be
lunatics, the court shall order them to
be removed by the sherifis to the luna.
tic hospital, to be kept until cured, and
then remanded to Jail TO abide their
trial.
ia. An act amending tho act reg
ulating proceedings in suits against
corporations, directs that suits at law
against corporations shall be common.
ced by summons the same to reclte
the cause Of action, and require the
appearance Of such corporation on the
proper return day, and to be returna-
BILE as other original process; service
of such summons on the president, or
other head. or in his absence, on the
cashier or treasurer, or in their absence
on any director Of any banking, turn
pike, insurance, canal, rail road, mi
ming, or manufacturing company, 10
be sufficient, if they be in the county or
corporation on the mayor or chief
magistrate, or in his absence, on the
recorder, or in his absence, on any al
derman or trusteelof any city, borough
or town, fin the limits Of the corpora
ton and on the president or director,
or on the visitors or trustees ofany col
lege or academy, and on the chief Of
ficer or any member of any corpora
tion--in all cases TO be served by the
proper officer the same proceedings
to be had upon the return oil the sum.
mons as are had upon other suits at law
on the return Of a capiaS ad reSpon-
dendum. Suitsin chancery to be com.
menced by subpoena, and to be served
in the same way, and to be proceeded
on as other suits iii chancery. Upon
judgments or DEGREES against corpora
tons, it is optional with the plaintiff to
sue out either distringaS, feri faciaS
lecari facias, or elegit-the feri fdcias
and elegit to be levied on the money,
as well as goods and chattels ofthe cor
poration; provides a remedy against
officers failing to serve and make re-
turn Of process and directs that when
corporation shall expire or be dissol-
we'd, all its property and the debts due
to it, shall be subject TO the payment
ofits debts, and the balance thereafter,
to distribution among its members, ac-
cording to their respective interests,
and the corporation or members TO be
liable to be sued, as if the corporation
had not expired or been dissolved.
lis. An act TO change the time of
the meeting OF the General Assembly ;
prescribes that in future the Legisla-
ture shall meet on the first Monday in
January.
II6. An act to incorporate the Rum
nymead coal mining company in the
county Of Henrico.
III. An act to incorporate the Uni.
COMMUNICATING company in the coun-
ty of Chesterfield.
IIs. An act to authorize the open
ing Of a new street in that part of the
town of Petersburg called Girlfeld.
I19. An act to incorporate Shaw's
gold mining company in the county of
Buckingham.
100. An act to authorize a sepa-
rate election at the house Of j. Wick
line, in the county of Monroe.
I2I. An act changing the time of
holding the circuit superior courts Of
law and chancery for the counties of
Scott and Lee; fixes the time for Scott
county on the first Mondays, and for
Lee county on the second Mondays,
each, of April and September; the act
TO take effect after the first Monday in
May, next.
lag. An act fixing the school quo
tas ofFrederick, Shedandoah, Warren
and Clarke.
1913. An act to incorporate the Oc-
coquan manufacturing company, in the
county of Prince William.
1914. An act to amend an act, entl-
tied an act for incorporating the trus-
tees of an academy in Norfolk Bor.