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We, Robert G. Scott, and William Robertson, members of the Executive Council of Virginia, do hereby certify, that the laws contained in the twelfth 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 twenty-seven. Given under our hands this 8th day of November, 1823.

ROBERT G. SCOTT,
WM. ROBERTSON.

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strike out "to" after "join."
for "hose" read "house."

13 from top, insert " of" between "board" and "
for "parency" read "
any."
after the word "kin" strike out "shall."
parcenery."
10 from bottom, for "state" read "estate."
2 from top, strike out "a" before "term."
for "focage" read "socage."
after "write" insert" down."
18 from bottom, for "handicaft” read “

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for the second "it" read "is."
for "o" read " of."

in the title, for "rement" read "regiment."
24 from top, for "fund" read "funds."

8 from bottom, for "mistate," read "mistake."
for "issued" read "issues."

for "lawfu" read "lawful."

6 and 7 from top, for "purchaser" read "purchasers."
insert "to" before" be."

3 from bottom, for "beeo" read " been."
strike out one "under."
14 from top, for "hoppen" read “happen""
for "ascertain" read "ascertaining."
767, 22 from bottom, strike out "dele."

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TO THE

Twelfth Volume of the Statutes at Large.

THE contents of this Volume are very interesting. Among the acts of 1785 and 1786, will be found, passed into laws, the most important bills, reported to the legislature in 1779, by the committee of revisors appointed by the act of 1776.* At the session of 1786, an act passed, appointing a committee to take into consideration such of the bills, contained in the revisal, prepared and reported by the committee, appointed for that purpose, in the year 1776, as had not been enacted into laws.† This was superseded by the act of 1789, concerning a new edition of the laws, which was the foundation of the revisal of 1792.

WILLIAM WALLER HENING.

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Patrick Hen

ry, esq.

Edmund Randolph, esq.

List of Governors of Virginia during the period comprised in this Volume.

PATRICK HENRY, Esq. was elected, a second time, governor of Virginia, in December 1784, and continued until December 1786, when Edmund Randolph, esq. was elected.

EDMUND RANDOLPH, Esq. continued governor until December 1788, when Beverley Randolph, esq. was elected.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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ry, esq go.

At the Public Buildings in the City of Patrick HenRichmond, on Monday the seven- vernor. teenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and in the tenth year of the commonwealth.*

CHAP. I.

An act to amend and reduce into one act, the several laws for regulating and disciplining the militia, and guarding against invasions and insurrections.

1. WHEREAS the defence and safety of the com- Preamble. monwealth depend upon having its citizens properly armed and taught the knowledge of military duty, and the different laws heretofore enacted being found inadequate to such purposes, and in order that the same may be formed into one plain and regular system;

* From the adoption of the constitution, until the present session, there had never been less than two sessions of the General Assembly, in each year, sometimes more, according to the exi genies of the government. By an act of May 1784, chap. XX. (See Vol 11, p. 387) the meeting of the General assembly was fixed for the third Monday in October, annually. Ever since that period, the sessions have been annual, except, in a few instances, when the assembly has been convence, for special purposes; under the tenth article of the constitution.

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Officers displaced by a former act restored.

II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the officers of the militia who were displaced and removed from office, by virtue of an act "For amending the several laws for regulating and disciplining the militia, and guarding against invasions and insurrections," are hereby reinstated, and shall take precedency of rank agreeable to the dates of the commissions they severalVacancies ly held prior to the passing of the said act; and vacanhow supplied cies supplied by appointment of the governor, with the advice of the privy council, or recommendation from the respective county courts.

Militia men & exempts

described.

III, And be it further enacted, That all free male persons between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, except the members of the council of state, members of the American congress, judges of the superior courts, speakers of the two houses of assembly, treasurer, attorney-general, auditors and their clerks, solicitor-general and his clerks, clerks of the council of state, and treasury, register of the land-office, his deputy and clerks, custom-house officers, all inspectors of tobacco, all professors, and tutors at the University of William and Mary, and other public seminaries of learning, all ministers of the Gospel, licensed to preach according to the rules of their sect, who shall have previously taken before the court of their county, an oath of fidelity to the commonwealth, post-masters, keepers of the public gaol and public hospital, millers, persons concerned at iron or lead works, or persons solely employed in repairing or manufacturing fire-arms, all of whom are exempted from the obligations of this act, shall be inrolled or formed into companies, of three serjeants, Companies three corporals, a drummer and fifer, and not less than forty, nor more than sixty-five, rank and file; and these companies shall again be formed into regiments of not more than one thousand, nor less than five hundred men, if there be so many in the county. Each comMilitia how pany shall be commanded by a captain, lieutenant, and to be officer- an ensign; each regiment by a colonel, lieutenant-colonel, and major; and the whole by a county-lieutenant. These officers shall be resident within their county; and before they enter on the execution of their respective offices, shall take the following oath: "I Officers' oath. do swear that I will be faithful and true to the commonwealth of Virginia, of which I profess myself to be a citizen; and that I will faithfully and justly execute the

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