Chapter XXI: Act VIII: To add representatives to the Board of County Justices,

except for judicial purposes.]

=_Whereas_= the justices of the county courts ... have accustommarily sett ... a rate or assessment upon the people of their counties ... and whereas it hath been suspected ... that under colour thereof many sums have bin raised ... =_for the interest of particular persons._= ... =Bee= it enacted ... that some of the discreetest and ableest of the inhabitants of each county, =_equal in number to the number of justices_= ... be yearly chosen ... [by parishes] by majoritie of votes of householders, ffreeholders, and ffreemen ... which said representatives, together with the justices ... are to meet at the usual place ... and are hereby authorized and impowered to have equal votes with them, the said justices, =_in laying county assessments and of_= [in] =_making wholesome by-lawes_= for the good of their counties.

IX, X, XI. [Forms of procedure in collecting levies and administering estates.]

XII. [Abolition of exemptions from taxation.]

For the greater ease of the country ... Bee it enacted that the 55th act of the printed laws [code of 1662], soe far as it relates to the honorable councill of state and ministers, bee ... repealed, and that for the future the persons of the councill and all others of their families be liable to pay levies ... and that the person of every minister bee exempted, ... but all other tithable persons in his familie shall be liable to pay levies....

XIII. [Permitting wolf-bounties.]

XIV. [Regarding trespass by "unrulie horses" "within another person's enclosure."]

XV. [Forbids exportation of corn until next session of the assembly.]

XVI. [For temperance reform.]

Whereas it is most apparently found that the many ordinaries [taverns] in severall parts of the country are very prejudiciall ... Bee it therefore enacted ... that no ordinaries, ale houses, or other tipling houses whatsoever ... be kept in any part of the country [except "at James Citty" and "at the two great ferries" of Yorke river]; _Provided_ ... that [these exceptions] be admitted ... to sell ... mare's meate, horse-meate, beer, and syder, but no other strong drinke whatsoever. ... [Penalty of 1000 pounds tobacco for selling "any sorte of drinke or liquor" _or for_ "_being drunke ... in his ... house_."]

XVII. XVIII. [Special Acts, relating to James City and two counties.]