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.
469. In district courts 745. PRE-EMPTION.
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.
POPULAR ACTIONS.
Collusive, no bar 354.
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.
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.
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piscopal church repealed 266.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-
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.
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.
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.
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
How suppressed 331, 332. ROADS. Taxes of Greenbrier appropria-
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.
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.
295: Act amended 513: Pro-Further time to settle their pay
vision for opening a road
from Morgan town, to the
disabled on shore; certificate
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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