Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-23


the period of a month, or any misbe.
havior thereat, or doing any unnecos.
sary travel or labor on the Lord
day, or engaging i'll tipping, gaming
or any disorder thereon, incurred a
fine of five shillings, or fifty pounds
OF tobacco, for every offence, or, on
failure or refusal to pay said fine, ten
lashes, or the bare buck. we'll laid on
Nobody was allowed to leave tho
colony without pass from the Sec.
retary. The act of 1905 provided
that The Secretary, or any deputy
by him appointed, shnll not grant
any pass for transporting any person
out of this colony, unless bond with
two sufficient sureties be given % the
Secretary, III the sum of two thou
sand pounds sterling, with condition
to answer and pay every debt aud
duty such person, at going out of
this colony. shall owe or stand oblg
ed Tor, by any ways or means what.
soever; or unless such person shall
have published his OF he: intentions
of going out of this COLONY three
times, Mt least, i'll tho Virginia Ga
zette, or slnll produce certificate
from county clerk that such person
is nn inhabitant of the county, aud
that, Mt lenst ten days before the is
suing of the certificate. he hnd put
mp Mt the courthouse on court dav,
written notice of his intehtion to
go out of the colony
Roman Catholics ("Parists') re.
fusing to take oatils aud subscribe
the test, ms required ut that dute,
were "recusnnts," ind, as such, were
not allowed to keep arms and ninmu.
milton, nor "any horse or horses
above the value of five pounde to be
Sold" nor could they vote for Burg.
osses, or be witnesses III any cause
whatever, or hold any Office, or be
guardian of any ruinor. Atheists
we're not disarmed nor endorsed; nor
were they disqualified to vote or tes
tify; hut they were disabled to hold
any Office or employment, ecclesiasti.
cal, civil or military. to sue in any
court, to be guardian, executor or
administrator, or to receive any gift
or legacy; and on n second conviction
were to be imprisoned three Years,
"wil hont bail or nnrnprizo" Only
Protestant settlers were desired, and
these only, settling in Augusta coun-
~, between the mountains aud The
Mississippi river, were exempted by
act OF lT53, from NIL pubic, county
aud parish levies for fifteen ycars
next following.
WHICH WAS LEGAL TENDER
In looking over these old color |
laws, one begins to doubt which was
the principal currency aud legal ten
der under them-tobucco OF the In, Ii .
AS has been seen slaves, servants,
paupols, vagnbonds mud the like were
generally settled with in lushes, wei
laid on their bare backs; and whip.
ping attended on adultery, hastardy,
killing deer out of season, neglec. lug
to work Oh the rouds, tic est, ped.
ding without license, unlawiully
selling liquor, taking up stray ami
mails or bouts (nnless by II house
holder, head of family or an over
seer), swearing, etc, and for various
delinquencies il WAS showered oil
sailors and soldiers, regularly enlist
ed. aud even on tho inferior officers
aud men of the militia. Noarly all
the numerous fines imposed were
commutable i'll stripes; and, in fact, it
has been but about decade since
the whipping post WAS abolished in
Virginia against the strenuous oppo
sition of many who still clamor for
its restoration--forgetting what Ham
let said to Polonious: use every
f: man after his desert, and WHO should
scapo whipping. Use them after
your own honor and dignity"
The former is barbarism; tho lat
ter, civilization. Crc11.