Local History and Tradition: Part IV

The following excerpt was taken from the book History of Summers County, West Virginia: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, by James H. Miller:

Some Old Laws

"If a person unlawfully kill a hog or steal one not his own, he should pay a fine of 1,000 pounds of tobacco; and, if unable to do so, he was required to work one year for the informer and one year for the owner of the property" (Miller 21).

"None but freeholders or housekeepers shall have any voice in the election of burgesses, and every county not sending two burgesses to the General Assembly shall be fined 10,000 pounds of tobacco, for the use of the public" (Miller 22).

"Any master of a ship who shall bring into the colony any Quaker to reside hereafter, 1st July, 1663, shall be fined 5,000 pounds of tobacco, and every person inhabiting the country who shall entertain in or near his house a Quaker to teach or preach, shall be fined 5,000 pounds of tobacco" (Miller 22).

Works Cited

Miller, James H. History of Summers County, West Virginia: From the Earliest Settlement to the

Present Time.1908. McClain Printing Company, 1970.