ther time for improving navigation 408. Remedy by metion against delinquent subscribers 508.

PRACTICE

Rules of, in county courts, 33, 469. In district courts 745. PRE-EMPTION.

sors; power to pay parish
debts 575. Proceedings, how
entered; how to vote; adjourn-
ment; allowance to overseers
576. Penalty for refusing to
serve; vacancies how supplied;
vagrants how dealt with; pow-
er of corporations, to provide
for poor 577. Right of vot-See lands.
ing 578. Removal of va-
grauts; who deemed vagrants;
keepers of gaming tables 579.
Acts concerning amended

PRESENTMENTS. Proceedings on 344. In district courts 758.

PRESIDENT

712. Sheriffs bound to col- [Of United States, electors of, lect poor rates 713.

POOR RATES. County courts may exempt from payment of 567. Collectors of, how appointed, their power and duty 574, 575. Sheriffs bound to collect 713. POPULAR ACTIONS. Collusive, no bar 354.

PORTS.

Foreign vessels restricted to certain ports; ports of entry and clearance 320, 434. Ports of delivery 321, 435. Exemption as to vessels of U. States 321.

POSEY, JOHN PRICE. Escheat and forfeiture of his estate, who was convicted of arson, released 692. POTOWMACK RIVER. General Washington's letter, declining donation of shares in Potowmack company 43How such shares to be appropriated 44. Duty of owners of mills, on south branch, as to slopes and canals 60, 362. Company authorised to reduce size of canal 69. Fur

chosen by districts 648.
PRESUMPTION

Of death, when 357.

PRETENSED TITLES. Penalty for conveying or taking 335.

PRIVILEGE

Of electors 122. Of members of assembly 127.

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

ted to opening a road from
Lewisburg to lower falls of
Great Kanawha 72. Provis-
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-
mer 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 subscriptions 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 Kanawba

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.

Part

ROCKBRIDGE.

of Rockbridge county
added to Botetourt 74.

ROCKINGHAM.
William Nall authorised to col-
lect certain taxes of Rock-
ingham 82: Pendleton coun-
ty formed out of Augusta,
Hardy, and Rockingham 637
ROUTS.

See Riots, &c.

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.

1

1

SALARIES.

disabled on shore; certificate

SEARCHERS.

SECURITIES

Salaries of governor, council- of discharge 137:
lors, delegates to congress,
attorney general, auditors, See duties.
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

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.

To be registered 131: Promo-
tion in the navy; pensions;
fund how raised 132: Ap-
prentices; duties of master
and apprentice 133: To be See lands.
registered; complaints of; va-
grant seamen; written agree-Courts
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

SHERIFFS.

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 un-
der sheriff may execute parti-