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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0305 and id is 1 raw text is: IN TIE FORTY-TURD YABR OF TIE COMMONWEAIT1.
by law ; owing to their having in their custody a prisoner for the
penitentiary.
2. This act 3hall be in force from (he passing thereof. Commcicmen,.
Ulf P Il GLXXXI.-An for the relief of John Thornton.
[Passed March 9th, 1819.]
Whereas it has been represented to the present General As- Pnea,,i,,..
sembly, that a certain slave, named John, the property of John
Thornton of the county of Caroline, was legally tried and con-
victed of murder, by the justices of the peace, for the county
aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred aid eighteen, and was
upon conviction, sentenced to be hanged, bein p praised, by the
justices aforesaid, to tile sum of eiht hundred dollars, as an
equivalent to the said Thornton, for the loss thereby sustained;
that the justices aforesaid, the members of the bar, and mani
other respectable persons of the county aforesitid, for divers ,ood
causes and considerations them thereunto moving, did petition
the Fxecutive of this Commonwealth, either to transport or par-,
don the slave aforesaid ; that pardon was granted after tihe p'i-
s ler hal escaped fromn jail, and before the second day of execo-
tion hall arr~ved and the said convict h..s never been seen or
mleard 1f since; by reason whereof, the said Tlhornton has not
neeri indemnified tor the loss thereby sustained
1. Be it theref're enacted. That the Auditor of Public Ac- S ,m alo,.,,i:r a
count'. be, and h,: is hereby authorized and required to issue a ,,i,,, ps,.
% warrant ol th~e Treasury rforthe sum of eight hundred dollars, to
be paid ,out of anv nuonev fierein iuct otherwise appropriatel, to
tme aid ThHornton, his eyecutors or adininistrators.
. .tnd he it furthvr enacted, That if the convict aloresaid t C,.,cS,.V,,, ..
should, at anyv time hereafter, be apprehended, the sheriff of the ir, *h,. i,',c,,si
countv, wh, erein t e said slave shall or may be taken, .shall, un- ,, i,,,,,.
der tle tder of tle court of his county, lroceed to sell the said
ylave for caih at public auction, havinr given tell days previous
ut ice or such sale, 6y advertisement fixed at the door of tle
court house of said coontv; and the said sheriff. after tile dedtu,- ,%f,, ,ri , e ,.
tion of such expenses., as to, the court may appear reascn'a ble t. , .-, r11u t
shall pay tile reidie, arising from such sale, into the public trea-
Sut.y, having previouslv tendered to the Auitor of Public ,kc-
con.nts. a 'ertiticate f'rm the clerk of said county, stating the
ailJmnt due to tile Commonwealth.
:1. This act shall commence and b6 in force from the passage c,rn.nrfn,.
thereoL
- II .P'i Elt Cl.XXXll.-k.\ act rnnccrnidig Clifton 11M-ris.
(Pascd March loth, 1819.)
1. Be it ncted by the (eneral .,Jsseuibly, That an addition Aldilisial ......i'.
muil &tt 2 whll m ,Itl ir
of two and an half per centum fn the amount of taxes paid into ix ... , d
the treasurv in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven- st-hfin ilarri, dc'lt
P) afih-rill ir Ailh, m- 1,
teen from the county of Albemarle. shall be anti the same is here- t'l si.
by allowed, and tle Auditor is hereby authorized and required to
issue a warrant on the treasury, for the same, to Clifton Harris,
who was deputy of Beniamin Harris sherift'of the said county, or
to his representatives, to be paid out of any money therein not
otherwise appropriated.
2. This act shall be in force from and ani after the passnge Cominenermeat.
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