[New] Virginia Ferry Operators, 1753

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Transcribed from:
Hening, William Waller
1819 The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All the Laws Of
Virginia, From The First Session Of the Legislature In The Year 1619. 
Volume VI. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia.

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NOVEMBER 1753 - 27nd GEORGE II.

CHAP. XIII
An Act for appointing several new Ferries.


I. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Burgesses,
of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, That public ferries be constantly kept at the
places hereafter mentioned, and that the rates for passing the said
ferries be as follows, that is to say,

on James River, from four mile creek warehouse landing, on the land of
Charles Woodson, in the county of Henrico, to the neck of land belonging
to Tarlton Woodson, in the county of Chesterfield; and from the said
Tarlton Woodson's, to the said Charles Woodson's, for a man four pence,
and for an horse four pence:

And from the land of Charles Ellis, in the county of Henrico, to the
land of Daniel Weldon, in the county of Chesterfield; and from the said
Weldon's to the said Ellis's, for a man three pence, and for an horse
three pence:

On the Fluvanna river, from the land of Nicholas Davis, at, or near the
mouth of the double creeks, to his land opposite thereto, called
Salopian Point, in the county of Albemarle, for a man three pence, and
for an horse three pence:

On Staunton river, from the land of Robert Wade, in the county of
Halifax, to the land opposite, thereto, in the county of Lunenberg, for
a man three pence, and for an horse three pence:

On Bennet's creek, in the county of Nansemond, from Benjamin Bascombe's,
to the land of James Buckston; and from the said Buckston's to the said
Bascombe's, for a man four pence, and for an horse four pence:

On the western branch in Nansemond county, from Jeremiah Godwin's, to
the land of James Benn, and from the said Benn's to the said Goodwin's,
for a man four pence, and for an horse four pence:

On Rock Fish river, in the county of Albemarle, from the land of Thomas
Joplin across the said river, for a man three pence, and for an horse
three pence:

On Patowmack river, from the land now in possession of John Posey, in
the county of Fairfax, to Maryland, for a man one shilling, and for an
horse one shilling:

On James river, from the land now in possession of Lewis Delony, in the
county of Surry, across the said river, to the land of John Edloe, the
elder, and from the said John Edloe's, to the land in possession of the
said Lewis Delony, for a man seven pence halfpenny, and for an horse
seven pence halfpenny:

And for the transportation of wheel carriages, tobacco, cattle, and
other beasts, at any of the places aforesaid, the ferry keeper may
demand and take the rates following, that is to say, for every coach,
chariot, or waggon, and the driver thereof, the same as for six horses;
for every cart, or four wheel chaise, and the driver of such chaise, as
for four horses; for every two wheel chaise or chair, as for two horses,
for every hogshead of tobacco, as for one horse; for every head of neat
cattle, as for one horse; for every sheep, goat, or lamp, one fifth part
of the ferriage of one horse; for every hog, one fourth of the ferriage
of one horse, according to the prices herein before settled at such
ferry, respectively, and no more.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall
and may be lawful for the said Tarlton Woodson, and every other person
who shall be in possession of the neck of land in the county of
Chesterfield, aforesaid, to erect and keep a gate on the road going
through the said neck of land to the ferry to be kept from thence, any
law, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

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