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An Act incorporating a Company to pave a Road from the Western Extremity of the Little River Turnpike Road, through Ashby's Gap to Shenandoah River. 1809 78 (1809)

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the poor Its aforesaid,:that'so much of anylaw as directs the ap-,
pointmnent foveseers of the poor, or: prscrtibes their uLus,
shall be,. and the same ia~hercbyrepekd,:so.aras the, same
respects the count, of CharlesCity.: Andthe'said trustees-are'
here6y authorised and diiected, to perform the: dtities:of over-
seers of the poor Within the said county, in the manner pres-
cribed by law.
Canieicemenh,  5. Thisact shall cornmence and be in forcefrom and after
the passing thereot.,

2Preamble.
Jen Read aua
tlwrisud to in.
troduce certain
slaves.
Geomwensemout

CHAP. LXXXVII.
.4n Act authorising .ean Read to introduce certain Orphans' Slaves
 vithin thisCmomrnonrvealtlh.
Passed Januzary 29, 1810  .
W      HEREAS it is represented to the present General Assem-
bly, That Jean Read, widow of Jonathanliead, dec'd. who
died aliout twelve or thirteen years ago at his place of residence in
the county of Charlotte, and state of Virginia, that the said
Jean Read was appointed guardian to his orphans, and removed
a short time afterwards to Dan river, near the dividing-line be-
tween North-Carolina and Viiginia; that the ne&roes Bob,
Jesse, Tom, Farding, Jane, Isbell, Henry, Billy, Bob, Pete',
Nancy, Molly and her two children, Nelly and Jean, are the
property of the orphans of the said Johnathan Read, deceased,
and were hired out in the state of North-Carolina, hy theirguar-
dian, the year the law passed prohibiting slaves from being
brought into the state of Virginia, and who was prevented from
bringing the said slaves back again, until their tme of hire had
expired
I. BE it therefore enacted, That itshall be lawful for the said
Jean Read, widow of Jonathan Read, deceased, and guardian
of the orphans aforesaid, and she ishereby authorised and per.
mitted, without incurring any penalty or forfeiture in conse-
quence thereof, to introduce within tlis commnonweahti the a-
forenamed orphans' slaves; any law to the contrary notwith-
standing.
12. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.

CHAP. LXXXVIIr.
An .ct incorporating a Coinpany to pave a Road from the es.
tern Extreimity oJ th/  Little k iver Tarnpile   oad, through
Ashby's Gap to Shenandoah River.
Com•missonr    I               [Pased January 30, 1810.)
apFointed to o. 1.  E it enacied by the General, Assembly, That Rohert Bur-
p n buoks for   J .well, senior, Charles Brent, Joseph Titball and John B.
uubscripdoni for Tilden, of the county of Frederick, James Allen, Philip Wil-
making a turn. liams, Philip Spangler and Jacob Rinker, of the county of
pike road.   Shenandoah, George Houston, Henry J. Gambill, Robert Gratp
ton and John Koontz, of the county of Rockingham, Joseph
Anderson, Jacob Kinney,. Robert Porterfield and Peter Heis-
kell, of the county of Augusta, James Machir,' Isaac Vanme-
ter, George Harness and Abel Seymour, of the county of. Hardy,
'William Nailor, William Vauce, Francis White ard Alexander
.   King, of the county of Hampshire,. Burr Powell, Joseph Carr
and Sydnor Boiley, of the county of Loudoun,.Hezekiah Shack-

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