THE

Statutes at Large;

BEING

A COLLECTION

OF ALL THE

LAWS OF VIRGINIA,

FROM THE

FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE,

IN THE YEAR 1619.

PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF VIRGINIA, PASSED ON THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY,

ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHT.

VOLUME XIII.

BY WILLIAM WALLER HENING.

"The Laws of a country are necessarily connected with every thing belonging

to the people of it; so that a thorough knowledge of them, and of their pro-

gress would inform us of every thing that was most useful to be known about

them; and one of the greatest imperfections of historians in general, is owing

to their ignorance of law."

Priestley's Lect. on Hist. vol. 1, pa. 149.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED FOR THE EDITOR, BY THOMAS DESILVER, No. 253,

MARKET STREET.

William Brown, Printer.

1823.

We, William F. Pendleton, and William Robertson, members of the Executive Council of Virginia, do hereby certify that the laws contained in the thirteenth volume of HENING'S Statutes at Large, have been by us, examined and compared with the originals from which they were taken, and have been found truly and accurately printed, except as to the following list of errata to the number of nine. Given under our hands this 8th day of November, 1823.

Page 198 line 10 from top, strike out "who.”

247,

248,

336,

388,

406,

531,
Ibid.

WM. F. PENDLETON,
WM. ROBERTSON.

2
insert "shall" before "be."
13 from bottom, after "taxes" insert "due."
19
for "valse" read "value."
8 from top, for "25" read "26."
19 from bottom, for "to be" read" or be."
12 from top, for " and act" read "an act."
13 for "conforming" read "confirming."

571, bottom line, last word, for "quireder" read " required."