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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0105 and id is 1 raw text is: IN THE THIRTY-SBCOND YLEAR OF TurE COMMONW'EALTH.
2. Be it fifther enacted, That nothing in this act shall'prohibit
thejudge in the court of chancery, of the Richtmold dhittrict, fr6m
grantinlr an appeal o tiny judgment given inn the last Septeutber
term, for good cause shewvn, bctween the first day of i'ehr uary
next, and the first day of -tMay next.
o3. All process which has issued from the said comrt, rrturnable
to the first or seventeenth days of the vcxt term, shll he returnable
on the days in the month (f March next, vhich would have h.een
tile fit st or seventeenth days of the session of the: said court, if this
act had not passed.
4. The executive ,hall procure a proper seal for each of the su-
perior murts of chmncery.
5. This act shall commerce a:,2 be in force, from and after the
passage thereof.
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Chiaccllor may
Process wl,;rh
Ifts i6ascud, hajw
rcturnable.
Executive to
]procttrv. scatts for
silperlor courts
of Chatllcvry.
CUI1ln1aU11cunniat.
CHAP. XV.
An Art tO atneid th It, r,:tiln/, Aa Act rcdici,:i into G'C the
Several A.'ts !.r e'p,,rfh,:/iq,.4 a,':, ,.'wri'g l'~mumug.:.
I k .:)rmu v 1, ldUS'
1 L it enated b!/ the G.irn t-! AsscwI'f,! That nny pcron woio Reward fur ar ,
i . dmay hereafter :pprchu'd t ,Lw:, ' . bu ertit,.d primilvadii1g rua
to the reward of two dullrs, s ai. Iilag ae as h-attolbre.
2. Be it .f/it/art enacted, That in cases whvre the sh-,riff or ser- Sherifl, how to
gealt of any county or corporation, ii- required to ;,Iv, rtise any :Mdrcrtisc.
iunaway in the Virginia (-azvtt, it shill he law Cld fr such oflicer
to pkiblish such adv'ertisement, in any public ncwq.apcr, most Col-
vcneint for that purpose.
3. .ad be it fi'ther enarret, That ifany rriltuvriwrw i.av he hesired aow to pocec,
out by any sheriff or seremut, and the o-we, r claim not within x,1,,i- ewaner
three months, the said sh.rif or sergeant, shall proceed to hire til duea not cim:
runaway out for three months more ; and so on for twelve mouths,
unless the owntr sooner clai- sttch runaway. It th' *fNWlntr clair
luot within twelve months, the sheriff or sergeant, shall advertise
for .ne month in s'eni public newtpaper, the time and place of
,elcing the said runaway.
4. All acts and part, 3f act, coming within the purview of this uvpeti;n-
act, shill he, and are herc)v repeated. clause.
5. This act shall commence and be in force, from the passing Conmuenceilc
thereof.
CIIAP. XVI.
An Act to authorise the xc'u!ta', to distribute Arms in certain
[P.ser! .'brita'y 5, 1808.1
B E it en act e ,, /, th G em ra l A .;' te nbl't , T } at th e g o v ern o r, E. c ntiv ,to d . ,.
with tile advict. of the couicil of sitaiv, 1) ' and he is hirthly triiIite .11111;' in
auithorised, t his discretion, to ar.1 such plortiol of dthe militia %f c rin t,
this commonwealh, as may at .1nV thnc be c':l d into a(tual ser-
vice, or Wi1, from thcr 'ar ticuhit ni -i, 1 *iy he most vxpusd
to inva,io or in'1urrcctiou; mi, l law to the Contrary twotwith-
st'aidiu g.
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