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Resolution relative to prosecuting the appeal in the Lemmon slave case. 1852 359 (1852.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0702 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. No. 9.-Resolufion relative to prosecuting the appeal in the Lemmon slave cue. Adopted March 31, 1853. Resolved by the general assembly, that the attorney general of. this Attorney gerA state be and he is- hereby directed to prosecute, before the supreme court directed to pro- of Now York, together with such other counsel as the executive may cuto 1pp6L think proper to associate with him, the appeal which bas been taken from the recent decision of a judge in that state, by which Jonathan Lemmon, a citizen of Virginia, was deprived of his slaves. No. 10.-A joint resolution legalizing the election of mayor, alderman and com-. men council of the town of Marion, and requiring the officers to take oaths of office. Adopted April 1, 1853. Be it resolved by the oeneral assembly, that the election held on the Election of end twenty-first of March eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for a mayorCors.InMarina alderman and common council of the town of M'arion in the county ofal' Smyth, notwithstanding any informality of proceedings on the part of the trustees ordering the same, be and the same is hereby made legal and as valid as if the same had been conducted in exact conformity with the act authorizing said election; and the officers so elected, before en- Qoacatioa Of tering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take the oaths of office effcere. prescribed in chapter thirteen of the Code of Virginia. No. 1.-Resolution directing the secretary of the commonwealth to deposit in the office of the Board of public works the Sessions Acts. Adopted April 9, 1853, Resolved by the general assembly, that the secretary of the common- Copy of Acts to ,wealth be and he is hereby directed to deposit in the office of the Board bo.depostited in ofc fBoard of of public works, for the use of said board, one copy of the annual Ses- public work . sions Acts of Assembly, not now in possession of said board, to remain there during the pleasure of the general assembly. No. 12.-Resolution giving the commissioners of the revenue further time to return the land and property books. Adopted April 11, 1853. -Be it resolved by the general assembly, that the auditor of public F7urthertime • accounts be directed to authorize such extension of the periods pro- given toconm sioners for de- scribed in the eighty-fifth section, chapter thirty-five of the Code ofiUvery of land Virginia, for the delivery of the land and property books to the clerks and property and sheriffs or other collectors, and for the transmission of the same to book. the auditor of public accounts, as he may deem advisable, not exceeding in either case two months beyond the time prescribed by said section.

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