dues, or officers fees, which shall remain unpaid by the
inhabitants of the said county of Loudoun at the time of its
taking place; but such sheriff or collector shall have the
same power to collect or distrain for such dues and fees, and
shall be answerable for them in the same manner as if this
act had never been made, any law, usage, or custom to the
contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
That the court of the said county of Fairfax shall have
jurisdiction of all actions and suits, both in law and
equity, which shall be depending before them at the time the
said division shall take place; and shall and may try and
determine all such actions and suits, and issue process and
award execution in any such action or suit in the same manner
as if this act had never been made, any law, usage, or custom
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

V. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
That out of every hundred pounds of tobacco, paid in
discharge of quit rents, secretary's, clerk's, sheriff's,
surveyor's, or other officers fees, and so proportionably for
a greater or lesser quantity, there shall be made the
following abatements or allowances to the payer, that is to
say: For tobacco due in the county of Fairfax ten pounds of
tobacco, and for tobacco due in the county of Loudoun twenty
pounds of tobacco; and that so much of the act of the
assembly, intituled, An Act for amending the Staple of
Tobacco, and preventing frauds in his Majesty's customs, as
relates to anything within the purview of this act, shall be,