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A65124 A complete collection of all the lavvs of Virginia now in force Carefully copied from the assembly records. To which is annexed an alphabetical table.; Laws, etc. Virginia. 1684 (1684) Wing V636; ESTC R222342 217,004 350

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by command of Court or Justice 10. For a Chancery Bill if written in the way of other usual Petitions and exceed not one side of a whose Sheet of Paper 20. If more every such side 10. Recording the Pannel of a Jury and their Oath 10. Returning and Recording Executions 10. Returning and Recording Attachments 5. Recording the Acknowledgment for Satisfaction of a Judgment 10. For taking Inventories of Estates at Appraisement and outcryes if the Clerk be imployed he ought to be agreed with for that and his Attendance or if not agreed with the Court to award for his pains and trouble as they see cause For Returning Administrations and Probats of wills with their Security into the Secretaries Office having a Certificate from the Office of having so done 40. For procuring the signing of Administration and Probats 10. For writing and Publishing any Persons Departure or for Stray-horses or such like at the Court-house-door if writ by themselves 5. For Recording the same 5. For Acknowledging Land in Court and Recording thereof and Copy 25. For Relinquishing Dowers and recording thereof 20. For a Caveat 5. For entring and Returning References on the Docket 5. For a Quietus and Recording it 25. For a Bill of Costs 3. For a private Courts Attendance there 200. For Attendance at the Executing a Dedimus and return thereof to the Office 100. For returning Appeals and Securities 39. For recording the Issuing an Attachment 3. And if any Clerk of a County-court shall exact and take greater sums for any Fee then is here or in the Printed Book or by any other Law set down and established and shall be legally convict thereof Penalty of Clerks exacting greater fees than is here appointed such Person so offending shall forfeit for every pound of Tobacco so exacted and taken ten pounds of like to the Person or Persons so overcharged to be Recovered by Action of Debt any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding XVII An Act Restraining Striking and Killing Fish at Vnseasonable Times THe Inhabitants and Freeholders of the several Counties of Glocester Middlesex and Lancaster by their Burgesses at this Assembly complaining that the striking and killing of Fish with Giggs and Harping-Irons is very prejudicial injurious and destructive to themselves in particular and the whole Countrey in General And praying that by a Provincial Law there may be Restraint put upon such striking and destructive killing of Fish betwixt the Months of March and November Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from hence forward it shall not be lawful betwixt the first day of April and the first day of November No Person shall strike or kill fish betwixt the first of April and the first of November in the Counties of Glocester Middlesex Lancaster upon Penalty of forfeiting 500 l. of Tobacco for any person or persons whatsoever to kill or strike any fish whatsoever within the bounds and limits on the Waters or Shoars of Glocester County Middlesex County or Lancaster County with Gigg Harping-Iron or any other such like Instrument made or to be made of Iron Wood or other ways upon Penalty of forfeiting and paying for every time such Person shall be lawfully convict thereof five hundred pounds of Tobacco and Cask one half to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other half to him or them that shall inform thereof and sue for the same to be Recovered against every such Offender or Offenders in any of his Majesties Courts of this Colony of Virginia by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding At a General Assembly begun at JAMES-CITY November 10. 1682. and in the four and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King c. I. An Act to Repeal a former Law making Indians and others Free VVHere 's by the Twelfth Act of Assembly held at James City the third day of October Anno Domini 1670. Entituled An Act declaring who shall be Slaves it is Enacted that all Servants not being Christians being imported into this Country by shipping shall be Slaves but what shall come by Land shall serve if Boyes and Girls until thirty years of age if men or women twelve years and no longer And for as much as many Negroes Moors and Mulattoes and others born of and in Heathenish Idolatrous Pagan and Mahumetan Parentage and Country have heretofore and hereafter may be purchased procured or otherwise obtained as Slaves of from or out of such their Heathenish Conutry by some well disposed Christian who after such their obtaining and purchasing such Negro Moor or Mulatto as their Slave out of a pious zeal have wrought the conversion of such Slave to the Christian Faith which by the Law of this Country doth not manumit them or make them free and afterwards such their Conversion it hath and may often happen that such Owner or Master of such Slave being for some reason enforced to bring or send such Slave into this Country to sell or dispose of for his necessity or advantage he the said Master or Owner of such servant which notwithstanding his Conversion is really his Slave or his Factor or Agent must be constrained either to carry back or export again the said slave to some other place where they may sell him for a slave or else depart from their just right and Title to such slave and sell him here for no longer time then the English or other Christians are to serve to the great loss and dammage of such Master or Owner and to the great discouragement of bringing in such slaves for the future and to no advantage at all of the Planter or Buyer and whereas also those Indians which are taken in War or otherwise by our Neighbour Indians Confederates or Tributaries to his Majesty and this his Plantation of Virginia are slaves to them the said Neighbouring Indians that so take them and by them are likewise sold to his Majesties Subjects here as slaves Be it therefore Enacted by the Governour Council and Burgesses of this General-Assembly and it is Enacted by the authority aforesaid that all the said recited Act of the third of October 1670. Be and is hereby repealed and made utterly void to all intents and purposes whatsoever And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid that all servants except Turks and Moors whilst in amity with his Majesty which from and after Publication of this Act shall be brought or imported into this Country Indian Slaves c. though afterwards Converted to Christianity shall not withstanding continue Slaves still either by Sea or Land whether Negroes Moors Mulattoes or Indians who and whose Parents and Native Country were not Christians at the time of rhe