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 IV.

By WILLIAM WALLER HENING.

"The Laws of a country are necessarily connected with every thing be-
longing to the people of it; so that a thorough knowledge of them, and
of their progress would inform us of every thing that was most use-
ful 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. I. pa. 149

RICHMOND.

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR.

AT THE FRANKLIN PRESS.-W. W. GRAY, PRINT.

1820.

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WE, William F. Pendleton, William Selden, and Alexander L. Botts, members of the executive council of Virginia, do hereby certify, that the laws contained in the fourth volume of HENING's Statutes at Large have been, by us, examined and compared with the originals, and with a copy as corrected, by the certificate of the examiners heretofore appointed, from which they were taken, by William F Pendleton and William Selden, from page 1, to page 379 inclusive, and by William F. Pendleton and Alexander L. Botts, from page 380 inclusive to the end, and have been found truly and accurately printed, except as to the following list of errata, to the number of fifteen. Given under our hands this 25th of March 1823.

ERRATA.

W. F. PENDLETON.
W. SELDEN.
A. L. BOTTS.

Page 13, line 7 from top, for "land" read "lands." 21, line 9 from bottom, for of" read to?"

32, line 20 from top, for of read n

34,line from top, for the first "or" read "and."

42, line 13 from top, for "disallance" read disallowance."

78, line 24 from top, for "within" read "without."

154, line 16 from bottom, after chattels, insert "to him the said A. B. as

his own proper goods and chattels "

156, bottom line, after "named" insert "A B."

191, line 8 from bottom, for "filled" read filed."

206, bottom line, for "purchase" read "purchased."

359, line 2 from top, for "or" read "and"

385, bottom line, for "3" read “35.”

447, line 13, from top, for the second "offender" read "offenders."

516, line 2 from bottom, for "saying" read "saving."

536, line 20 from bottom, for "to" read “in.”

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TO THE

FOURTH VOLUME,

OF THE

STATUTES AT LARGE.

THE first edition of this volume was printed in 1814, by the late Mr. Samuel Pleasants, printer to the commonwealth, by contract with the editor, and the sheets sent to Petersburg to be bound. As many copies as were subscribed for by the state, at that time, and a few over, were finished and delivered, the remaining sheets were all burnt, in the dreadful fire which happened in that town on the 16th day of July, 1815. This impression is re-printed page for page with the former, with the addition of a collection of historical documents, at the end of the Volume.

WILLIAM WALLER HENING,