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CH'APT ER XXVII.
A. ACT to amendan Act to coni:tue and amend alI Act for 'farther continuing and a.
?1cnding the Aic, entitled An .actfor reducing into one. the.se er.l Acts. concerning Ex.
ecutojs, andfor th relief of-Iasolvent Debtors.
(Passed, January 19th, 18O?.]
Prearble. WH.1 'REAS the tenth section of the act, 1To continue aand amen' an act, for further
continuing and amendingthe act, en.tied an act for reducing into one, the several acts con.
cerning executions, and.for the relief of insolvent debtors, hath been found to operate 'une.
qually and injuriously, by allowing the same compensation to sheriffs or other officers, for
supporting slaves and live stonk taken in execution or by attachment, at all seasons of the
year and,in every rart of the commonwealth, when the neans of their sustenance fluctuate
with the seasons and are of different value in different situations:
Cotwycourts in SectIon 1. ,BE it therefore .enacted by the General Assembly, That the county and corpo.
$day i nct. eve. ration courts within this comm wealth, shall be, and they respectively are authorised and
ry year 10 settle empowered, in the months of May and October in each and every year, to settle and adjust
attowance to shoo the compensation.to be allowed to sheriffs or other oflicers within their respective counties,
xiAi for keepig
btock, &. tIkIte for supporting slaves or. live stock taken by any writ of attachment or execution, till the same
,iider execution, be soldeor otherwise legally discharged from such attachment or execution.; Provided, the
illowance.so made shall not exceed twenty cents per dihy for each slave, seventeen cents per
day. fQr each. horse or mule,nihe cents per day for each head of horned cattle or hog, and six
cents per dayfor every sheep or goat.; which allowance, so adjusted and settled, shall be by
the aheriff or other olficer, perfoiming the duty, charged, collected and paid, in the same man.
ner, and by the ,said party, as is diected by the aforementioned act.
Person put inpit. Sec. 2. And he it firther enacted, That if any person or personi taken or charged in exe.
son to have bene. cution, shall enter into bond, with good and.sufficient security, under a reasonable penalty,
fit of bounds for upon .gondition .tht he,. she or they.shall not 4epart or go out of the rules or bounds of the
one year only. prison, to which, he, she or they be committed, it shall be lawful for the sheriff or other ofhl.
cer in..whoe cqstody such.prisoner.or prisonersahalLbe, to permit him, her, or themto go
out of the prison and return against pleasure during one year after the date of such bond;
4ftqrthe expiratiot Qf which time,.if the person or persons so takon or charged in execution
shall nut be discharged by due.cqurse.of law, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or.pther officer
to wvhoselcstody such person.or persons were committed, to recommithim, her, or them to
close jail and confinement, from whicbh uch person or persons shall not thereafter be discharge
ed until the debt or demand for whith he, she or.they were taken or charged in execution
shall b .paid; or untilhe, sho or they shall have taken and subscribed the oath and schedule,
and-hall have made the delivery or transfer of his, her or their property required by law
for the diacbarge of insolvent debtors.
,Cemmecehltent. :Sec. 4. 1This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of May next.
C H A PT E R XXVIII.
dia ACT conerning District Co.Yrts, and concerning the Assignors of Bonds, Bills and
Obligations.
r Passed January 1.9, 1o807.
General- out Section 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That whensoever -from any cause It
railing to atint shall so happen that the regular session of the General CQurt shall not be harden, so that an
judges to districts allotment of the districts among the judgcs shall fail to he made by that court, the several
last allotmentndo judges shall attend to hold courts in te several districts to which they were last allotted.
.and$ Sec. 2. And be it furtherenated, That when.any suit or action shall hereafter be remo.
Suit removed by ed from anycounty or corporation court, to any district court by writ of habeas torpus or
habeas corpus o
certiorari to stand certiorari, such cause shall be placed in the same situation in suc. district court as It stood
as It did. in the inferiQr court when such writ of habeas corpus or certiorari was delivered. And it
shall be the duty of every such district court to proceed to a final judgment in the manher
such inferior court ought to have done, without any new pleadings, unless the same would
have been proper if such suit had remained in the Inferior court.
Assignee may '.Sec, 8. And be it further enacted, That the assignee or assignees, his, her or their execu.
recovertfrom any tors or administrators, of any bill, note or obligation, shall hereafter be entitled to recover
previousasignor, from any previous assignor or assignors, hs, her or their executors or adminaistrat ro Prod
Proviso vided, that in an), suit'brougl)t against a remote assignor or assignors, his, her or their exe
cutors or administrators, he, she or they shall be subject only to such recovery, And shal
have the benefit of-the same defence as if the suit had been instituted by the immedia6
assignee or assignees. And providad also, that no joint action shall be commenced or pro.
secuted against any two or more persons, unless where they shall be joint assignor. . lut
nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as, in any manner, to abridge or destiy
any rights which indorsees of bills of exchange, or assignees of bonds, notes and oblIGatlPas
now are entitled to by law.
Commencement Sec. 4. And 4e it further enacted, That the churt directed to be holden in thq city of
of term in Rich. Richmopld, for the district composed of tho counties of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfipld,
mond district. Goochland and Powhatin, shall hereafter commence on the twenty eighth day of March
and twenty eighth (lay of August in every year, and continue, if business requires, fifteen
juridical days. If an), of the said days should happen on a Sunday, such court shall commeance
on the succeeding day.
Commencement. Sec. 5. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of April nev.
CH.APTER XXIX.
An ACTfor Paying t/e Officers of the General Assembly for their set vices dring the
present'se ssion.
Alowe, to Setit d (Passed January 20, 1807.]
.ucers of thie' . Secti.n 1. BE it enacted by the General/Assembly, That the allowan:e to the ofifcirs of dlir
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