[1243] Ibid. (1872-73), 501.
[1244] Acts of the Legislature of W. Va. (1877), 135.
[1245] See the act of March 18, 1882: Acts of the Leg. (1882), 312, 313; which is retained in Code of W. Va. (1897), 654, 655; and there has been no later legislation.
[1246] Act of Feb. 3, 1798: Stat. Law of Ky. (ed. Littell), II, 65, 66. Provision was made in 1814 for revoking the testimonial whenever a minister shall be "suspended, deposed, or excommunicated, by and from the society to which he belongs, for any other cause than a difference in religious tenets."—Ibid., V, 95, 96.
[1247] Act of Dec. 12, 1799: Stat. Law of Ky., II, 275, 276.
[1248] Kentucky Stat. (1894), 764, 765; agreeing in essential provisions with the act of March 24, 1851, taking effect July 11, 1852: in Acts (1850-51), 212-16. Cf. Kentucky Stat. (1899), 823.
[1249] See chap. xiii, sec. ii, above.
[1250] Poe, Code of Md. (1888), 975. Compare Kilty, Laws, 1777, chap. 12, sec. 3; and Laws of Md. (1787), 1777, chap. 12, sec. iii.
[1251] Act of May 13: U. S. Stat. at Large, XXIX, 118-20; Moore, Code (1902), 266.
[1252] Iredell-Martin, Acts of the Gen. Assem., 1715-1803, I, 253.