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An Act amending the 9th section of chapter 104 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to Harboring or Employing Slaves. 1863 55 (1863.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0831 and id is 1 raw text is: OHANGES IN CODS. 5 5 CHAP. 65.-An ACT amending the 9th section of chapter 104 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to Harboring or Employing Slaves Passed January 23, 1864. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the ninth section Coda anez,ied of chapter one hundred and our of the Code of Virginia ho amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: § 9. Any person harboriu or employing a slave without the con- liarborlng sent of ins master, shall forfeit to the aster not less than ten nor niore than fifty dollars for every day of such harboring or employ- ment; but'this section shall not apply to any persoi within the lines Provis. of the publio enemy, who shall so harbor or employ any slave, unless it shall appear that the same was done with the intent and purpose to defraud the owner of the services of such slav, or to deprive the owner of his right of property in such slavo. 2. This net shall be in force from its passage. Cola,,,neneut CHAP. 66.-An ACT to amend the 21st section of chapter 66 of tho Code, in regard to AppQintments of Directors and Proxies by the Board Lif Pub. lie Works. Passed March 10, 1864. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the twenty-first ode ,,ieul,.i| section of the sixty-sixth chapter of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty) be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: § 21. The appointment of directors and proxies in a conpany, Ilirectors mia according to the preceding and seventeenth section, shall he ma t' 1roxie, hoA • ~ ~ . ,,ppuinltedl by the hoard at the tine it first subscribes to tIhe capital stock ol such company, and afterwards before each annual meeting therein : hut at least one of the directors and one of the proxies in office at vr,,vmo' the time of anrannual appointment, shall not be reappointed fir the ensuing year. 2. This act shall be in force front its passage. C 4,, ten, CHAP. 67.-An ACT to amend and re-eifact the 5th section of chapter 53 of the Code (edition of 18(0) in relation to County Levi,.. Passed March 4, 1861. I. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the fifth section of c,,,it. ,.Y,d.a chapter fifty-three of the Code (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty) be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: § 5. After an order shall have been made by the court of any how asts,,.,o county at one term, for thejustices to nieet at the next terim and 'nd consitder the expediency of levying upon lands and other property, if, at such next tern a imajority of the acting justices lie actually pre- sent and'concur thercini, the court may order the levy on free mal, persons over the age of sixteen years, and oni all slaves, land and other property assessed with state tax within the county, aiid Without the limits of a town that provides for its poor and keeps its streets in order, and oii the interest and prolits nntioned in the firty-nintm, the yearly income in the lifty-first, and the feees in the lifty-seventh sections of the thirty-fifth chapter, on which taxes are assesbed against persons residing in the said county, and without the limits of guol town. The order of levy under this section shall he for a certain sum on each free male person over the ago of sixteen years, and on - other subjects, including slaves, for a certain per centi upon the amount of taxes thereon. If the state shall not by law impose alas for i vy taxes upon land, slaves and other .property for the year in which time court may make such levy, the court may adopt the assessment of state taxes for an), previous year, as a basis for the levy, under this seiion, on land, slaves and other property. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commonceaent

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