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sors; power to pay parish
debts 575. Proceedings, how
entered; how to vote; adjourn-
ment; allowance to overseers
576 Penalty for refusing to

ther time for improving navi-
gation 408. Remedy by mo-
tion against delinquent sub-
scribers 508.

PRACTICE

469. In district courts 745.
PRE-EMPTION.

See lands.

serve; vacancies how supplied; Rules of, in county courts, 33,
vagrants how dealt with; pow-
er of corporations, to provide
for poor 577. Right of vot-
ing 578. Removal of va-
grants; who deemed vagrants;
keepers of gaming tables 579.
Acts concerning amended
712. Sheriffs bound to col-Of
Ject poor rates 713.

POOR RATES.
County courts may exempt from
payment of 567. Collectors
of, how appointed, their pow-
er and duty 574, 575.
riffs bound to collect 713.

She-

POPULAR ACTIONS.

Collusive, no bar 354.

PORTS.

Foreign vessels restricted to cer-
tain ports; ports of entry and
clearance 320, 434. Ports of
delivery 321. 435. Exemp-
tion as to vessels of U. States
321.

POSEY, JOHN PRICE.
Escheat and forfeiture of his es-
tate, who was convicted of ar-
son, released 692.

POTOWMACK RIVER.
General Washington's letter, de-
clining donation of shares in
Potowmack company 43.-
How such shares to be appro-
priated 44. Duty of owners
of mills, on south branch, as
to slopes and canals 60, 362.
Company authorised to re-
duce size of canal 69. Fur

'PRESENTMENTS.
Proceedings on 344. In district
courts 758.

PRESIDENT

United States, electors of,
chosen by districts 648.
PRESUMPTION

Of death, when 357.

PRETENSED TITLES
Penalty for conveying or tak
ing 335.

PRIVILEGE

Of electors 122. Of members
of assembly 127.

PRIVY COUNCIL.
When one may act as lieuten-
ant governor 129, 330. Suits
against members of 738.
PROCESS.

See writs.

Form of in district courts; teste
of 738. Not returned 744.-
Not directed, good 750.
PROCESSIONING.
Power of vestries transferred to
overseers of poor 29.

PROCLAMATION.
Process after return of pluries
746.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Act incorporating protestant e-

piscopal church repealed 266.
Each religious society secur
ed in its property and autho-
rised to regulate its own dis-

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Summary remedy against 352.

Apportionment of rents and
hires 151.

REPLEVY BONDS.

See Executions.

Executed in clerk's offices;

quashed 751.

REPRESENTATIVES

Lands of sheriff's &c. how ta-To congress, under the new cou-

ken and sold 559. Mode of
selling lands for payment of
taxes 564.

PUBLIC JAIL.

Judges of general court to su-
intend 113.

PUBLIC LANDS.

See lands.

QUIT-RENTS.

Inhabitants of Northern neck
discharged from 113.

RANDOLPH
County, formed from Harrison
393. Randolph academy es-
tablished and incorporated
638, Surveyors' fees paya-
ble to 341. Additional trus-
tees 661.

RANGERS.
Appropriation for 645.

RECORDS
Destroyed, how reinstated; fees
of clerks; commissioners to be
appointed by executive 498:
Making up 751.

REGISTERS

Of vessels 313.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
Act establishing religious free-
dom 84: Each religious so-
ciety secured in 84.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP,
Disturbers of, how punished 336

stitution, how chosen 653.-
City of Richmond, allowed a
representative in house of del-
egates 722.

REVENUE.

See Taxes.

Appropriation of revenue 55,
323, &c. 417, 781:

Law's of
revenue amended 412 to 432.
REVISAL

Of laws, under the act of 1776,
further provision for com-
pleting 409. Powers of revi-
sors 410.

RICHESON, HOLT
Authorised to collect taxes of
King William 774.

RICHMOND,
Lottery authorised for erecting
Mason's Hall, in city of Rich-
mond 229. Court day of
hustings altered 407: City of
Richmond allowed a repre
sentative in the house of dele-
gates 722.

RIGG, RICHARD
Patents to issue on surveys made
by, in Northern neck 532.
RIOTS, ROUTS, AND UNLAWFUL

ASSEMBLIES

How suppressed 331, 332.
ROADS.
Taxes of Greenbrier appropria-

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ion for keeping in repair, the
roads from the north-western
parts of the state to Alexan-
dria and Colchester 75:-
County courts authorised to
open new roads, or alter for-
iner ones; proceedings thereon
174: To divide roads into
precincts, and appoint sur-
veyors 175: Who to work on
roads; penalty for failure; sur-
veyors how notified; duty of
surveyors; sign posts; bridges
and causeys 176: Materials
for, how procured; penalty on
surveyors for neglect; how
bridges and causeys built and
repaired within the county
177: When over any place be-
tween two counties 178: Pe-
nalty for felling a tree into,
or killing one near, a road;
or making a fence across;
roads over mills dams how
made 179: Commissioners to
receive subscriptious for o-
pening a road from falls of
Great Kanawha to Lexington
in Kentucky 282: Act amend-
ed 725: Courts of Loudoun
and Fauquier authorised to
keep in repair, the roads from
Ashby's gap to Alexandria
294. Act amended 522: Tax-
es of Harrison county appro-
priated to opening a road,
from the state road to the
mouth of the Little Kanawha

mouth of Fishing creek, on
the Ohio 297: Provision for
opening and straightening
road from Chester's gap to
Richmond; from Vestall's and
Snicker's gaps to Alexandria;
and from Fredericksburg to
Richmond 375. Act amend-
ed 522, 729: Further taxes
appropriated to road, from
state road to mouth of Little
Kanawha 669.

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ROYAL ASSENT.
Evidence of royal assent to acts
of assembly, how supplied 501
RULES
To be held in clerks office in
county courts 35, 469. In the
district courts 744.

RUNAWAYS.
Servants and slaves, how ap-
prehended and dealt with 192.
RUSSEL
County, formed from Washing-
ton 110. Court day altered
407, 474.

SABBATH.
Sabbath breakers, how punish-
ed 336.

SAILORS.

295: Act amended 513: Pro-Further time to settle their pay

vision for opening a road

from Morgan town, to the

278.

SALARIES.

disabled on shore; certificate

SEARCHERS.

See duties.

SECURITIES

Salaries of governor, council- of discharge 137:
lors, delegates to congress,
attorney general, auditors,
solicitor general, speaker of
senate, of house of delegates,
clerk of general court, regis-
ter of land office, his deputy,
treasurer, clerks to treasurer,
auditor and solicitor, keeper
of public jail 49.

SALEM
Academy, at Baird's town, Nel-
son county Kentucky, incor-
porated 676:

SCIRE FACIAS

Of exrs. and admrs. how far lia-
ble; when court liable; how
relieved 148. Of guardians,
supplemental; counter-securi-
ty 196. Summary remedy
against principals; contribu-
tion among securities 269.—
Not to confess judgments 270.
Of sheriffs, remedy against

their lands 773.
SENATORS.

To revive judgments, rules in, See Assembly, and pa. 120.

752.

SCOTT, JAMES
Executors of James Scott, au-
thorised to sell part of his
lands, for payment of his
debts 382.

SCOUTS
Appropriation for 645:

SCROLLS
Deemed equal to seals 749.
SEAMEN

To be registered 131: Promo-
tion in the navy; pensions;
fund how raised 132: Ap-
prentices; duties of master
and apprentice 133: To be
registered; complaints of; va-
grant seamen; written agree-
ment for every voyage 134:
Seamen absenting themselves;
wages when paid; without a
discharge treated as deserters;
how apprehended 135: Pen-
alty for concealing; mutiny
136: Accommodations; im-
moderate correction; putting

Credentials of senators to con-
gress 714.

SERVANTS.
Rule as to servants and slaves
on plantation of decedent 150.
Who may be, and how long
to serve; duty of masters 180.
Contract for service assigna-
ble; servants how punished;
runaway to compensate for
loss of time; complaints a-
gainst masters how redressed;
contract between, and master
void 191.

SETTLEMENT.

See lands.

SHERIFFS.
Courts failing to nominate, ex-

ecutive may appoint, penalty
for failing to accept office,
how excused, how long may
continue 98. Estates com-
mitted to, when; their power
and duty; sales of land by,
confirmed 153. When an-
der sheriff may execute parti-

tion 351. Remedy of exrs.

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SLATE RIVER.

and admrs. of high sheriffs a-Commissioners to examine 657.

gainst their deputies 475.-
Sheriff to decide, when courts
equally divided in appoint-
ment of clerks, or recommen-
dation of surveyor 507.-
Lands of, may be taken on a
fi. fa. when 558. Judgments
to bind lands; rules as to le-
vying executions ou; debtor
may specify the lands 559.-
Lands how sold; how convey-
ed; if lands &c. of sheriff in-
sufficient, judgment against
securities 560. Form of ex-
ecution; power of executive to
direct removal of property;
executions on behalf of com-
monwealth, to whom direc-
ted 561: Duty of solicitor to
inform executive; fraudulent
practices, how detected; reme-
dy against sheriffs, collecting
revenue, without security; ex-
penses of removing property,
how defrayed 562.
long and on what conditions
deputy sheriff may serve 563.
Bound to collect poor-rates,
if appointed 713. Suits a-
gainst 738. Relief granted
to, as to taxes, in certain
cases 771. When lands of,.
bound to their securities 773.

How

SHORT, WILLIAM.
Act vesting certain escheatable
property, in the children of
William Short, repealed 681.
SINKING FUND.
How constituted and appropria-
ted for gradual extinguish-
ment of public debt 452.

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SLAVES.
Widow, or her husband remov-
ing dower slaves 145. Rule
as to servants and slaves on
plantation of decedent 150.
Hires of apportioned 151.-
Who declared slaves; hereaf-
ter introduced to be free; how
far witnesses; not to go from
home without a pass; punish-
ment; not to keep arms; riots,
unlawful assemblies, how pun-
ishable; who may bring slaves
into this commonwealth 182.
Penalty for dealing with 183;
Court for trial of; must be
unanimous to convict; time be-
tween sentence and execution;
value how estimated and paid;
suing for freedom, how tried;
who may sit on trial 345:-
Tax on young hegroes re-
pealed; tax on slaves above
12 years old 431. Construc-
tion of act to prevent fraudu
lent gifts of slaves 505: Steal-
ing or selling free person for
a slave, felony without clergy
531. Emancipation of slaves,
under the will of Joseph Mayo
confirmed 611: So of Charles
Moorman 613: Act declaring
killing of a slave by correc-
tion, to be nianslaughter only,
repealed 681: Importation of
slaves into Kentucky, regula-
ted 713.

SNUFF
Manufactured in this state not
subject to duty 298.
SOLDIERS
Further time allowed to settle

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