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 ONE TH 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.

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 This impression is re-printed page for page with the former, with the addition of a collection of historical documents, at the end of the Volume.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,