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HARBOUR MASTERS, How appointed, ther oath, duty and penalty for neglect 25. HARDY

County, formed out of Hampshire 86: Court day altered 407: Part of Hardy added to Hampshire 597: Pendleton county formed out of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham 637.

HARRISON

County, divided and Randolph formed 393. Court day al

tered 407.

HARRODSBURG, Town of, in Lincoln county Kentucky established 223:Certain lands in to be sold 395.

HENRICO Boundary line between counties of Henrico and Hanover, established 620.

HENRY. Place of holding courts altered 374. Court day altered 407 696.

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.

Rules of practice in, altered 464 Executions on final decrees; executions upon; saving former remedy; executions for costs; pleas in abatement 465、 Adjournment of court; appeals; depositions taken out of state; absent defendants, proceedings against 466: Injunctions, how proceeded on 467: When judges reduced to one 766: Where court held; terms; court may arrange business; commissioners in chan

judge interested 766. Issue to general court; adjournment; Continnance of causes 768.

HIGH TREASON To erect, or attempt, a government independent of Virginia, within its limits 41.

HIRES. Apportionment of rents and hires 151.

HOOMES, JOHN Exclusive privilege granted to, of conveying persons in stage carriages, for a limited time 618.

HORSES.

Penalty for suffering a stoned horse to run at large; when forfeited 172.

HORSE STEALERS. Reward for apprehending 331. HOTCH POT. Advancements brought into 139 146.

HUSBAND Removing dower slaves 145: Administrator of his wife, not bound to distribute 146,

IDIOTS.
See Lunatics, and pa. 165.
ILLINOIS.

Additional commissioners for surveying and apportioning lands granted Illinois regiment 397: Register to issue patent to commissioners 398: Claimants to pay fees to commissioners 398.

IMPEACHMENTS, Trial of, in district courts 762: In court of appeals 764. IMPRESSMENTS.

See Militia.

cery; foreign commissions; Of articles for militia, how made

812

and paid for 17. Act for adjusting claims for property impressed for public service. revived and continued 102, 278.

INDIANS. Commissioners to settle accounts of expeditions from Kentucky against the Indians 231; Act amended 521; Lands of Nansemond tribe, in Southampton sold to William Bennett 386: Trustees of Pamunkey tribe appointed 406.

INDICTMENTS. Omission of parish, town, ville, or hamlet, not fatal in indictments 271.

INFANTS.

See Guardians, and pa. 194, &c.
May sue by next friend 357.
INFORMATIONS.

Rules for filing 355.

INJUNCTIONS.

Proceedings on 467.

INQUESTS

How taken by escheators 158:
Traverse monstrans de droit,
petition of right to 159.
truly found 160.

INTEREST,

Rate of legal 338.

INTERPRETERS

Un

May be sworn 749. INTESTATES' ESTATES How distributed; dower of widow; husband not bound to disWhen tribute his wife's 146. distributed; bond to refund 151.

INVENTORIES Of decedents estate; how far evidence 149. Of estate of wards, by guardians 195.

JAILOR,

Public, for district courts, how appointed, his privileges and duties 755, 756.

JAMES

A slave the property of William
Armistead, emancipated 381.
JAMES RIVER.

General Washington's letter de-
clining donation of shares in
James River Company 43.-
How such shares to be appro-
priated 44: Company may
reduce
extend shares and
depth of canal 116. Crow's
ferry declared highest point
of navigation 117. Remedy
by motion against delinquent
subscribers 508.

JEOFFAILS
Statutes of, adopted 749.
JOINT OBLIGATIONS.
Effect of 350.

JOINT TENANTS.
Partition between 349. Survi-
vorship abolished 350.
JOINTURES.

Act concerning dower and jointure of widows 162. Jointures in lieu of dower 164.

JUDGES

Interested, where suit may be brought 763, 765, 767. Travelling expences allowed to

768.

JUDGMENT By confession, equal to release of errors 750.

JURISDICTION Of quarterly courts 32, 468. Of monthly courts 36. Crimes committed out of jurisdiction of this commonwealth, where tried 330. Of corporation

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JURY,

Trial by, secured 186: Juries in
Jurors
district courts 736:
witnesses; contempt by; con-
duct of sheriffs 746.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Act empowering governor and
council to remove from office,
repealed 507.

KANAWHA
County, formed out of Green-
brier and Montgomery 670.
KENTUCKY.

Terms on which district of Ken-
tucky may be erected into an
independent state; convention
how chosen 87: Conditions
38: Further provision for e-
rection of Kentucky into an
independent state 240. Laws
regulating high court of chan-
cery and general court ex-
tended to supreme court of
Kentucky 475: County courts
in Kentucky authorised to es-
tablish ferries 500: Courts in,
may admit qualifications, on
attested copies of wills &c.
503. Entries for land in Ken-
tucky, to be transcribed in
well bound books 509: How
estrays advertised in 373,688
Act establishing district court
amended 704. Importation of
slaves into, regulated 713.-
Further provision for erec-
tion of district of Kentucky
into an independent state 788
Conditions 789.

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LANCASTER

Court day altered 408.
LANDS.

Provision as to certain locations
of land warrants, in the coun-
ties of Greenbrier, Harrison,
aud Monongalia 81. Further
time allowed to enter certifi-
cates for settlement rights,
and for locating warrants up-
on pre-emption rights 88,
Public lands in York and E-
lizabeth city, except Point
Comfort, to be sold 97: Act
limiting time for surveying

entries on western waters re-
pealed; notice of surveying;
on failure to attend entry void;
surveyor to retain warrant 99:
Owners of entries to appoint
agents; saving to infants &c.
or accidents; locations with
deputy surveyor of Jefferson
county confirmed 100: How
waste and unappropriated

lands on eastern waters ob
tained 100: Not to affect rights
to marshes, or sunken grounds
101: Land papers of Northern
neck, to be removed to regis-
ter's office 111; Copies, evi-
dence; grants on surveys, how
issued; unappropriated lands
in; obtained as other lands
112: Composition money 113
Sale of lands devised to be
sold 150: Sales by sheriffs

confirmed 153: Wrongful a-
lienations of, to pass only
what grantor might lawfully
convey 166: Lands of John

Mills, deceased, to be sold for
payment of his debts 203:-
Further time for entering cer-
tificates for settlement rights,
and locating warrants upon
pre-emption rights 237:Coun-
ty courts not to grant certifi-
cates for such rights; time al-
lowed for obtaining and en-
tering pre-emption warrants;
consideration; time limited for
surveying entries on eastern
waters, and making returns to
land office; for surveying en-
tries in Northern neck 238:
Composition in what payable;
grants on surveys returned to
proprietors office how obtain-
ed; pre-emption in swamps,
marshes, and sunken grounds
in Northern neck; saving to
infants &c 239. Caveats enter-
ed in Northern neck, how pro-
ceeded in; consideration for
land warrants on eastern wa-
ters, how payable 240: Act
declaring entries forfeited, on
failure to appoint agents, re-
pcaled 266: Lands sold for
taxes, by John Owen, sheriff
of Pittsylvania, how conveyed
360: Additional commission-
ers for surveying and appor-
tioning lands to Illinois regi-
ment 397: Register to issue
patent to commissioners 398:
Claimants to pay fees to com-
missioners 398: Public lands
in James city and Northamp-
ton. formerly annexed to se-

cretary's office to be soid 495
Entries for lands in Kentucky
to be transcribed into well
bound books 509: Patents to
issue on surveys made in
Northern neck, by Richard
Rigg 533: Lands of sheriffs
and public collectors may be
taken on a fieri facias, on
judgments of commonwealth
558: Judgments to bind the
lands from their date; rules as
to levying executions on
lands; debtor may specify the
lands to be sold 559: Lands
how sold; how conveyed; if
lands &c. of sheriff insufficient
judgment may be obtained
against security 560: Form of
execution; executions to
whom directed 561: Mode of
selling lands for taxes 564:—
Further time allowed for en-
tering certificates for settle-
ment rights, and locating war-
rants on pre-emption rights
570: Directors of public build-
ings authorized to convey to
Philip Turpin, certain lots in
Richmond 617: Governor au-
thorised to issue grants, with
reservation of other claims in-
cluded in the surveys 646:-
Liable for taxes, in Albe-
marle, during sheriffalty of
John Marks, how sold '662:
Further time allowed to re-
turn plats and certificates of
survey to land office 678:Fur-
ther time to survey entries on
the western waters 679: Duty
of surveyors, on division of
counties, as to entries 709.

LAW PROCESS,
Tax on, in district courts 762:

LAWS.

Further provision for complet-
ing revisal under the act of
1776, 409: Operation of cer-
tain acts of 1786, suspended
410:

LEESBURG.
Trustees of town of, appointed

600:

LEESVILLE,

Town of, in Stafford county es-
tablishen 210.
LEVIES.
Power of overseers of the poor
to levy 27: How collected and
accounted for 28: County
courts may exempt from 567.
LEXINGTON.

Part of lot on which court house
stands, in town of Lexington,
Rockbridge county, may be
sold 687.

LEWISBURG.
Further time allowed to improve
lots in 686.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

When one of privy council may
act 129, 330.

LITERARY WORKS
Copy right, secured to authors

30.

LOTTERIES.
Lotteries authorised for com-
pleting church in Winchester,
and rebuilding one in Nor-
folk county 229: For erecting
Mason's hall, in Richmond
229: For Cabin point lodge
of freemasons 364. Washing-
ton Henry academy 406:-
Fredericksburg academy 632

LOUISVILLE.

Further time allowed to improve
lots in 372: Certain lands in
to be sold 395.

LOVE, WILLIAM
His real estate vested in Marion
Love 408.

LUMBER.

Inspectors of, in Norfolk coun-
ty, Princess Anne and Nor-
folk borough appointed 388.
Inspectors cf lumber may be
appointed in each county and
corporation 499.

LUNATICS.

Estates of idiots and lunatics,
how preserved 165. Direc-
tors of hospital, how appoin-
ted; incorporated; style of cor-
poration 198. Corporate
powers; lunatics, how remov-
ed; proceedings thereof; if di-
rectors differ in opinion from
justices 199. Infant lunatics,
how proceeded with; when
lunatic discharged; legal set-
tlement 200. Directors of
hospital, how to hold courts;
vacancies how supplied 716.
LYNCHBURG
Town of, in Campbell county,
established 398.

MACKEY, ROBERT.
Robert Mackey and John Pey-
ton permitted to build on cer-
tain lots in the commons of
Winchester 227.

MADISON, JAMES.
James Madison and George
Taylor discharged from trust,
in relation to lands of Harry
Beverley 219. Their ac
counts, how settled 219.

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