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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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In Williamsburg, county courts halt business pending general assembly election due to disputed officers' fees post-regulation act expiration. General court bar countermands witness attendance for non-criminal trials to avoid expense amid uncertainties from congress deputies' absence, though justices will proceed with criminal cases to maintain order.
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The delegates from the counties at the late convention having signified their opinion that the officers' fees, since the expiration of the act for regulating and collecting them, cannot be legally taxed, it seems none of the county courts will proceed to do business until there be an election of general assembly; and the gentlemen of the general-court-bar, doubting the return of two of their body, who are appointed as deputies for this colony at the congress, time enough to prepare for the approaching general court, and convinced if that honourable court should then proceed to business it would add much to the uneasiness of the present times, have thought it most advisable, all these circumstances considered, now to countermand the attendance of such witnesses, as may have been summoned, in order to save a great and probably a fruitless expense to their clients: It is therefore presumable there will be no trials at the next general court, except in criminal cases, in which all the justices in the colony are determined to proceed, in preserving that good order so necessary at this critical period.
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Williamsburg
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county courts will not proceed until general assembly election; non-criminal trials at next general court presumable absent to avoid expense and uneasiness; criminal cases to proceed by all justices to preserve order.
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Delegates at late convention opined officers' fees cannot be legally taxed post-act expiration. Gentlemen of general-court-bar doubt timely return of two congress deputies, countermand witness attendance for approaching general court.