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An Act authorising Elizabeth Morris to bring certain Slaves into this State. 1809 90 (1809)

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u dinlcc ailhormain,' aToIl BrTdo1M e &ie tli e,  ih Branch.of Rap.
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amhh. .          ,HERE AS -t s representid, That by an act, passed on the
iV.tWenty.lfth: day f Dt'cember, in the yenr. oine tfho.usEid
sevenhlunded 'id ninetysaven. Landoni 'Crteri, rehe coutytie t .
of ' KgGeorgd, was authorised to erect atoll. brid e from his
land, 'at Nornian's.ford , lathe county of- Culpeper, qver the
no~rth b'anch' of Rappahannock river, which lie .a~cordingly: did,
but wich 'was destroyed ,by a : unusual flood: in' tie' year one
thousand eight hundred and four: ,  ''      , 
. t an .bu.'d.I t thcrcfgre'- Iacted Ifby theiGenerd:Asembl, Tht it.
nithred to buldshall b lawfulfortfhe said Landon Carter,. his'hira a sign,'
m[an'sri.. tb iebuild the bridge at the 'aforsaid N0onman',;fbid,. and hive
QYLso.     mid deiat;4-the tolls herein after ientioned : .Provided always,
That i fthe said -Landon Carter, hIiis ffeirs or assigns, shalln6t
complet -the said-bridgevithintwelv months fro  the. passage
of this act, then. it* shall be la~ful for the county court of, Cul;.
peper, and the said court is hereby required, to appointthriee
-fit tommissioners to receiye subscriptions for an amount suadic-'
6 'tto  erect a  bridge= tt the place:0afresaid,. 'and* whn  i sutR  .
ent sum shall -ie so subscribed, the.same'shallbe: api'ed, under,
tie  recion: of those'cominissiors, to the, -ofectin. the 6ridge,
.whi h wh6n erecied shall be field and 'enjyed~by the persons so
subscribing, their executors, administrators or asuigns  with all
,tolls and lprofits thefroim.  u.tiil they shall be reimbursed the.
w' S exp~ndid in building and  repairing the same, and-all 'ci-
dent. l 'expenses, - with-legl' interest.thereou;-and in order, the
rnore6correctly -to asc rtain-.the,'amount, expended in bulding ,
• and' all other charges attendJing thesame, .the saideon misners,
up0 the comiletion of the 'said bridge, -shall report the amount
expcded'to the 'county courtLof Culpeper, and- the peis'ns Sib.
scribing shall annually'report to, ihe same courit: te amdtnt of
1ollIi collected-on the said .bridge, and:the- eipenses attinding the,
samde. And sb-soon as saidsubsrhers shali'befullyreimhurs.'
ed-the sum epended in building the said bridge,. aid othef inci-
'deintal charges , I th -legal interest thereon, thesaid Landon.Car.
-ter. hisheirs r ssins;:shall :have privilege' to resume theps-
session IMd pr prtyof mand-in.th said bridge, itatolla nid profits,
by s'giifying to the gnic'i:urt,!withjn:twevc months.fter he or
•itiey shall be notified of the reibursement f thd said suyip .x-
/ peided, and            tihec incidental charges -his or thoir intention ts

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