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'IIAPTEir 31.-Ail act 'directing the apportionment and payment of a.sum of
money from the Literary Fund to the treasurers of the school commissioners ia
certain counties therein mentioned.
(Passed February lst, 11125.]
1. fe it enacted by the General Jissentbly, That the president Annual quotas of
and directors of the Literary Fund shall be, and are hereby re the Literary Fund
quired, to pay to the treasurer of' the school commissioners in each or Giles, Cabell,
of the counties herein-after mentioned, the following sums ofTazewell Kana'-
money, as the portion of those counties from the Literary Fund whnaad Logan.
for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and for every year
thereafter, agreeably to the sixteenth section of the act entitled,
an act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the Lite-
rary Frntid : viz; the county of Giles two hundred anti sixty *nine
dollars; the county of' Cabell two hundred and fifty two dollars
fifty cents; the county of Tazewell two hundred and fifty-two
dollars fifty cents; the county of Kanawha three hundred anti
sixty-four dollars sixty.two cents ; andt the county of Logan one
hunldred and forty-eight dollars seventy cents.
2. 'his act shall commence anti be in force from the passing Commencement.
thereof.
CHAPTER 3-.-An act concerning persons who have suffered by the loss of slave
and other property, taken and carried away by the enemy during tile late war be.
tween England nod the United States of America.
[Passed January 19th, 1825.]
Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, that many Preamble.
of the citizens of'this Cmmonwealth sustained great los~es by hav-
ing their slaves and oiler property taken and carried away by the
enemy in the late war between England anti the United States
of America, thereby reducing a portion of outr citizens who en-
joyed affluence anti plenty, to a state of poverty and distress
1. lie it therejbre enacted by the General .Iissembly, That each Certificates under
certificate under the seal of any court in thi Comnmonwealth, in seals ' court to
el ~ ~ ~ b obtnDained with.-
relation to slaves anti other property taken and carried away 1)lY outtx, by per.
the enemy, in the late war between England and the United States sons claiming
thecenemyncaminfo
of America ; to affidavits and depositions, all certificates of execu- compensation ,or
loss al slaves dlt.
torship, administration or guardianship, and to powers of attorney, i, late war.
anti aJi other papers whatsoever that may be necessary for the
purpose of prosecuting claims before the commissioners, now sit-
ting in the city of Washington, constituted under the convention
concluded at' Saint Petershurg, in relation to the first article of
the treaty of Ghent, concerning slaves and other private property,
shall be 'free from any tax whatsoever.
2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerks Duty ofclcrksand
of the superior, county and corporation courts within this Corn- notaries public to
monwealth, as also each notary public, to certify and affix his seal wit.nh cica sa i
of office to such atlidavits, depositions and powers of attorney, cer- to stuc, pers,.
tificates of adtninistration or guardianship or other papers; and compensation al-
for each seal affixed as aforesaid and a certificate thereof, he shall lowed.
receive the sum of twenty five cents only, as compensation for
such, to be paid by the claimant at whose instance such service
may be performed.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0353&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)