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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0582 and id is 1 raw text is: 6s Free Negroes and Mulattoes.-Banks.-Poor Laws.
CnAP'. 75.-An ACT to extend the provisions of an act to prevent free no.
groes ard mulattoes in the counties of Accomack and Richmond from sell.
ing agricultural products without a certificate, passed March 27th, 1843.
[Passed February 10, 1844.]
Free negroes not i. Be it enacted by tie general assembly, That the provisions of
tosalagrlcuha- an act, entitled an act to prevent free negroes and mulattoes in the
ral products
witlhoutcertlll- county of Accomack and county of Richmond from selling agricul-
Cate.
See Acts 184l 3, tural products without a certificate, passed March The twenty-se-
c. 6, .. venth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, be and the same are hereby
extended to the remaining counties and corporations of this com-
Courtstapprove monwealth: Provided however, That before this act shall have any
of act. forec in any county or corporation of the commonwealth, the court
of such county or corporation, the acting justices thereof being sum-
moned, and a majority thereof being present, shall approve thereof,
Commencement 2. This act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof.
CHAP. 76.-An ACT concerning the Bank of the Valley and branches.
[Passed February 5, 1841. ]
flow manydirec- 1. Be it enacted by tie general assembly, That so much of the
tas i lak of proviso of the sixth section of the act, entitled an act establishing
of relephotion, general regulations for the incorporation of banks, passed March
see Acnd 18a1-7, the twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the first
p. 62 1 and 181.1'-
c. 83, p. 67. section of the act, entitled an act concerning the appointment of
directors of tile Bank of tile. Valley in Virginia, passed March the
twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-three, as limit the servi-
ces of tile directors of said Bank of the Valley in Virginia and bran-
ches to four consecutive years, be and the same are hereby so far sus-
pended, that at the next period for the annual election or appoint-
ment of directors for said bank and its branches, of those who shall
then have served four consecutive ylears, not more than two of the
present directors in the mother bank, and an equal number of those
in w,',h of its braun'ies, shall be incapable of re-election or reappoint-
Twodirectors to ilneut tr anwther year : Provided however, That nothing in this act
go out of office contained, shall be so construed as (at the end of the present and
annally. each succeeding year) to prevent tile exclusion front the direction of
said bank or from that of each of its branches, of at least two of the
directors thereof respectively, (exclusive of any one filling tile office of
president,) as shall have beeit longest in service as said directors.
Commencement. 2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
CHAP. 77.-An ACT to require the county courts to examine annually the
proceedings of the overseers of the poor.
[Passed February 10, 1844.]
Courts tn exa- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That hereafter the
i'n im. Proc,-el ugI/
of ovuraels of, county courts of this commonwealth, shall o1ce in every year, either
poor. in the month of June or July, proceed to examine tile proceedings
of the overseers of the poor of their respective counties, and if upon
such examination, it shall appear to the court that the levy, or any
part thereof laid by the said overseers, is contrary to the laws regula-
ting tile same, and prescribing the powers and duties of overseers of
the poor, they shall cause an order to be entered on their minutes,
May alter and stating the fact, and requiring the overseers of the poor so to alter
correct county and correct the said levy, as to leave out all and every part thereof
ley. that have been unlawfully laid.
Overseer, to lie 2. Be it further enacted, That the clerk of the court shall within
notificu of eor- ten clays after the adjournment of the court, at which any such order
retIon I,, levy
and to makte It shall be made, deliver a copy thereof to the sheriff of his county, who
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