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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0332 and id is 1 raw text is: In the forty-sixth year of the Commonwealth.
law in other cases of lunacy. All the other provisions of the
general act concerning idiots and lunatics, shall be applicable to
tis case, except where they may contravene the provisions of
this act.
Prosecution 6. This act shall not operate any discontinuance of the prose-
against hint not to cution now pending against the said Trhomas Hackett, but the
be discontinucd. same shall be continued until his discharge by due course of law.
Commenment. 7. This act shall be in force from and after the passage thereof.
CIIAPTEIt 1i0.--An act concerning Archibald Rutherford and others, securitles
for Daniel Ragan late deputy sheriff in the county of RIocdingham.
(Passed blarch 4, 1822 .] ,
Ohma _ directed 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the sum of
to be refunded to four hundred and thirty-five dollars, twenty-six cents, the amount
lArchiand othes. of damages recovered, by two judgments of the general court, at
the June term, in the year 1820, against Walter Davis high she.
riff' of the county of lRockingham, and which have been sinc
paid by Archibald Rutherford and others, the securities of Danie.
Ragan, a deputy of the said Walter, with considerable hardship
to themselves, is hereby directed to be refunded to them ; and
the auditor of public accounts is authorised and required to issue
a warrant on the treasury to them, or their representative or
representatives, for the amount, to be paid out of any money
therein, not otherwise appropriated.
C+ommencement. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
CHIAPTEIR ll.--An act concerning, wan thnableton and Sarah his wile, persoas
of slor.
[Passed Ji nuary 5, 1582.]
Preambl. Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, That
Swan Hanbletn, a man of cc lor, of the county of Lee, and his
wife Sarah, have been eman ipated by their late master John
Skidmore, on account of thei.' general good conduct, and of the
important service rendered the family of his former master by
the said Swan in defending and protecting two of his children from
the savage fury of the Indians, whea attacked by them in the early
settlement of that country; and whereas great tlificulty has arisen
in obtaining a court composed of a majority of the acting magis-
trates of the said county of Lee, as required by the sixty-second
See R. code section of the act, entitled, I an act reducing into one, the seve-
oF1819, vol. J, p. ral acts concerning slaves, free negroes and mulattoes, passed
430. March 2nd 1819 ; and the said Swan Hambleton having peti-
tioned the legislature to permit him and his said wife Sarah
to reside as free persons within this state:
Proceedings by 1. Be it enacted by the General .Assembly;, That the said Swan
Swan, .ar.bketon Hatubleton and Saah his wife shall be at lberty t apply to the
and wife, to obtSaahlbetyin
permission to re- court of Lee county, at the term at which they slall proceed to
aide in this eomJ-1y their next county levy, for permission to reside within said
. .onwealtha. county; or they shall be at liberty, at any time within twelve
thorsed, menths from the passage of this act, to apply, at any other terr
of the said court, to attend which a majority of tie acting jus-
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