South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-04-15
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of delegates to make condensed statement,
and report the same to the legislature,-lIn :
poses penalty Of fifty dollars on the clerks
for failure to make the report required, TO be
recovered in the general court, on motion oi
the auditor Of public accounts-the clerk o'
the house of delegates to report to the auditor
the clerks so failing.
An act directing a survey Of Cheat riverI
from the point at which the Northwestern
road touches it, to the Pennsylvania line.
An act to amend the act, entitled, an act I'd
provide for the construction of a road betweeRI
Weston, in the county ofLewis, and Charles
ton, in the county of Kanawha.
An act Incorporating the Brandonyiiie !
Kingwood and Evansville turnpike company
An act directing survey of the Mononga
heIa river and the valley thereof.
An act to amend the revenue laws; re i
ouires the clerks ofthe circuit courts by thu
first of February, annually, to deliver to The
commissioners of the revenue in their coun
ties and corporations, lists of DEGREES cfparti !
ton, and Of devises of real property recorded,
in their courts the year preceding the lists I'd
contain descriptions of such property; includ1
ing quantity and situation; the commission1
ers to enter such lands on their books and az /
sess the value thereof
An act I'd amend the several acts relating Il
lunatics and their estates; provides that
shall not, in future, be required OF the court
committing lunatics to either of the hospitals
to ascertain or direct what amount shall b
paid out of their estates for their transported
ton or maintenance, in order to charge thelI
estates but such expenses shall be ascertain
ed by the directors Of the hospitals, be certinl
ed to the auditor and debited to the commit
tees of such lunatics, and requires when pe1|
sons charged with any criminal offence, sha
be found by inquisition, taken before tn
court, to be Iunatics, the court shall orde
them to be removed by the sheriffs to the lu
matte hospital, to be kept until cured, an
then to be remanded to Jail to abide their tia
An act authorizing the survey of rout
| for road from Moorefeld to the Warm spring.
or to Huntersviie.
An act amending the laws concerning.
mancipated slaves, free negroes, and muia
toes, gives the county and corporation cour
the power to grant to any person emancipate
since the 1st Of May, 1906, OF who may y
, hereafter emancipated, permission to renal
in the said county or corporation; all the ju
tees having been previously summoned, ar
majority being present, and notice OF the al
plication having been posted at the door OF u
| Courthouse at least two months preceding
! three fourths of the justices present concu
fling in granting the permission, and the
torney for the COMMONWEALTH having defen
ed the application; the court to certify tn
| the applicant is a person of good characte
! the act not to embrace persons heretofore
! rnancitated, not now residents of the stat
| The counties Of Accomack and Northamptd
to be exempted from the provisions fthe ad
A majority of the justices Of any court ha
| the power to revoke such permission.
An act directing routes to be surveyed
roads from Bear garden mountain, and fro
Komney, in Hampshire, to the National 70
at or near Cumberland.
An act to authorize a subscription on
part of the state to the stock of the Baltimd
and Ohio railroad company; authorizes
! subscription to the amount Of 1902, 100;
board Of public works being authorized
borrow the amount necessary therefor ,subjd
to the condition that the company shall col
plete their road to the Virginia line, and
part to be paid till the board be satisfied tn
| the road will be finished to its western tern
nation in this state the subscription TO
made upon the same terms as required By
state of Maryland. The property, sc. of
company not to be exempted from taxatid
and the company be subject to the provisi
reserving to the state the power to provi
for the transportation Of the mails on the 81
| road; the subscription not to be expended
any part of the road Gut of the state.
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