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QUAKERS.

Affirmation of, allowed to entitle to the reward for killing wolves 354.

QUARANTINE.

Vessels arriving from places infected with the plague, to perform quarantine 99. Regulations, for performing 100. −− Penalty for breach 100. Power of officer 100. Penalty for leaving the vessel 101. Allowance to informer 101. Punishment for going on board, without license 101. Power of officers of customs 101. Penalty for suffering persons to leave the vessel 102. Watch to be kept 102. Vessel, when to be released 102. Goods imported, in such vessel, to be opened and aired 103.

QUIT-RENTS.

Lands of infants not to lapse for want of seating and planting, or paying quit-rents, till three years after they attain full age 31, 32. Infant females marrying, when the three years to commence 32. If not paid for 3 years, the land forfeited 41. How collected 79. When sheriff liable for 79. Where no distress can be had 80. Penalty for concealing 80. Distress, how disposed of 80. Slaves, &c. mortgaged, liable for 491. Successor of sheriff may distrain for 491.

RANDOLPH, JOHN.

Agreement between him and Thomas Bray, confirmed 370.

RANDOLPH, RICHARD

Title of, to certain entailed lands confirmed 181. So, of entailed

lands purchased by him of William Ligon 307.

RANDOLPH, WILLIAM

Certain entailed lands, purchased by his father Thomas Randolph of John Sutton Farrar vested in 307.

RANGERS

Governor to appoint lieutenants of rangers 9. To be provided with eleven men 10. How to treat Indians 10. Pay of 11. To be free from levies 11. −− Punishment for disobedience of orders 11. Act appointing, continued 37.

REAL ACTIONS.

Process and proceedings in 402.

REBELLION.

In slaves, how punishable 126.

REGISTRY.

Of births, and deaths to be kept 42. Births to be certified to minister or clerk within 20 days 42. Deaths, in like manner 43. Penalty for neglect 43. How registered 44. Register to be certified to secretary's office 44. Fees, and how paid 44. Penalty for failing to keep and return a register 44. Penalties how recoverable and appropriated 44. This act to be read in churches 45. Duty of churchwardens 45.

REMAINDER.

In slaves, how limited 223.

RENTS.

Goods distrained for rent, how disposed of 288. Oath of appraiser 288. Pound breach or rescous, damages for 289. −− Damages & costs, for wrongful distress 289. Rent to be paid, before executions

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satisfied 289. Proviso 290. Sheriff to levy both 290. When goods carried off the premises may be distrained 290. Except bona fide sold 290. Debt for rent, on leases 291. Rent distrainable for after determination of lease 291. Proviso 291. Further proviso 291. −− Distresses how levied 483. −− Goods may be sold on credit 483. Bonds how taken and returned 484. To have the force of judgments 484. Exceptions 484. Executions and distresses for tobacco, when to issue 484. Attachments against tenants removing 485.

REPLICATION.

To answer, when to be filed 190.

RESCOUS.

Damages for 289.

RICHMOND.

County divided & King George formed 95. Court day of, altered 366.

RIVERS AND CREEKS.

Counties bounded by a river or creek, each to contribute towards clearing it 111. Penalty for erecting hedges across rivers or creeks 111. River or creek, in one county, only, the court to contract for clearing it 112. Hedges made across rivers or creeks to be destroyed 177. None to be erected 177. Penalty 177. How appropriated 178. Penalty for felling trees,&c. into rivers or creeks 178.

ROADS.

Width of, over mill-dams 53. −−

Penalty for failure 54. Provision as to infants 54. Penalties, how recoverable and paid 54. Saving as to infants 55. Proviso, where the dam is destroyed 55. To be made to and from iron works 229. −− Privilege of persons employed at iron works, as to 297. −−− Timber for bridges, may be taken 297. When it shall be paid for 298. Certain timber excepted 298.

ROLLING-HOUSES.

Warehouses, for the reception of tobacco so called 82. Act concerning amended 91.

RUNAWAYS

To be committed to the county jail 168. To be advertised by the sheriff at the courthouse 169. And by the clerk or reader, at the church or chapel 169. Penalty for neglect 169. To remain in jail, if not claimed by owner, within 2 months 169. Ferriage of runaways, how paid 170. When to be hired out 170. Appropriation of hires 170. When, and on what terms, to be delivered to owner 171. To have an iron collar put round the neck 171. Prison fees, in the county and public jail 171. Penalty for exceeding legal fees 171. Proviso, as to runaways from Maryland or North Carolina 172. But one commitment to be charged where runaway hired out 172. Fees in public jail to be paid by public 173. Masters of vessels to take an oath, not to transport any person out of

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the colony 173. Servants running away, and changing their names, penalty for 174.

SCALES & WEIGHTS

To be provided at warehouses 257.

SCIRE FACIAS.

When it lies to revive 358.

SEAMEN.

Act concerning (vol. 3, pa. 486) continued 46. Punishment for going on shore without leave 107. Disobedient, may be whipped 107. Two justices may hear complaints of masters against seamen, and inflict punishment 107. Corporal punishment 108. Penalty for hiring seamen belonging to another ship 108. Seamen travelling without certificates, dealt with as runaways 108. Penalty on ordinary keepers, entertaining seamen without certificates 109. Complaints of seamen against commanders, how redressed 109. Seamen discharged, to have certificates 110. Penalty on commanders for immoderate correction 110. Admiralty jurisdiction not abridged 110. Penalty for discharging sick or disabled 212.

SEATING & PLANTING.

Lands of infants not to lapse for want of seating and planting, or paying quit-rents, until three years rfter they attain full age 31, 32. Infant females marrying, when the 3 years to commence 32. What accounted a sufficient 37. Proportion of arable and barren lands 39. When patentee may

cease to improve 40. Patentee of lapsed land entitled to so much as he has improved 40. How and where proof of seating and planting may be made 41. Further specification of improvements, to prevent lands from lapsing 81, 82.

SECONDS.

Further regulations for preventing the tending of seconds 241. Duty of constables in relation to 241. Slips and suckers to be cut up 242. Form of constable's oath 242. Penalty on constables for neglect 243. Prosecutions to be ordered by court 243.

SECRETARY.

Fees of 60 to 64, 341 to 344, 408 to 412, 492 to 496.

SERVANTS.

Servants and slaves to be continued on plantation of decedent to finish the crop 21, 284. Their crops to be assets, 22, 284. Not to keep horses without leave of their owners 49. Children of female mulatto, or Indian, born in servitude how long to serve 133. Runaway, how apprehended and dealt with 163 to 173. Masters of vessels to take an oath, not to transport out of the state 173. Running away and changing their names, penalty for 174. Penalty on, for pretending to be tradesmen 174. For refusing to work 174.

SEETLEMENT.

What accounted a legal 210.

SHERIFFS.

The act for supplying certain defects in the mode of appointing,

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(vol. 3, p. 498) continued 45. Fees of 72, 73, 348. To collect fees of officers 74. −− Their duty in collecting quit-rents 79. When liable for 79. Where no distress can be had 80. Distress, how disposed of 80. Penalty, for refusing the office of sheriff 84. Court failing to nominate, the governor may commission 84. Sheriff dying, how a successor appointed 85. Penalty for refusing to accept 85. Persons thus appointed, how long to serve 85. Fines how appropriated 86. Where the fines have been once paid 86. Where the party cannot get security 86. Person once appointed, not compellable again to serve, until every other justice has served 86. May take engagement of attorney to appear, in the general court 184. Must return the name of bail 184. Interlocutory judgment against & bail, how set aside 184. To pay the same tobacco, as collected 255. How to collect tobacco for public dues, clerk's fees, &c. 255. When to pay 256. Disabled to sit in the house of burgesses 292. Burgesses exempted from serving as sheriffs 292. Penalty on persons disqualified, for sitting and voting 292. Former act concerning, made perpetual 300. Summary proceedings against, for officers' fees 352. When to account for fees 421. When liable for escapes 487. Successor of, may distrain for levies, fees, &c. 491. Fees of 502.

SILVER.

Rates of silver coin settled 52. Altered 218.

SLAVES.

Servants and slaves to be continued on plantations of decedent, to finish the crop 21, 284. Their crops to be assets 22, 284. When slaves to be delivered to the heir 22. Executor and administrator not answerable for slave dying 22. Slaves above the number of five, conspiring to rebel, or make insurrection, or plotting the murder of any person, felony without clergy 126. Proceedings against slaves committing capital crimes 127. Punishment for giving false evidence 127. Charge to the witness 128. Owners of slaves may appear in their defence 128. Value of slaves condemned, to be paid by the public 128. Unlawful meetings of slaves 128. Penalty on those suffering them 128. Masters may license their slaves to meet at their quarters 129. Penalty for being at unlawful meetings of slaves 129. For harbouring them 129. Offenders may be apprehended by order of justices 129. Penalty on justice failing 130. Power of sheriffs, constables, &c. to suppress unlawful meetings 130. Penalty for failing 130. Punishment of slaves coming to a plantation without leave 130. Guns, ammunition, &c. found in possession of negroes may be seized, and the negro whipped 131. Free negroes,

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house-keepers, may carry arms 131. Negroes may dispose of arms now in their possession 131. and may be licensed to keep them at frontier plantations 131. Slaves killed in execution of this act, to be paid for, by the public 131. How slaves may be emancipated 132. Dismembering of slaves, when allowed 132. Slaves dying under correction, the owner exempted from punishment 132. Manslaughter of a slave not punishable 133. But only to extend to owners 133. What free negroes, &c. are tithable 133. Children of female mulatto or Indian, born in servitude, how long to serve 133. Free negroes, &c. not to vote 133. How this act to be read and published 134. Runaway, how to be apprehended and dealt with 168 to 173. Masters of vessels to take an oath not to transport out of the state 173. Construction of the act of 1705, declaring slaves to be real estate 223. Slaves to pass as chattels 223. Remainders, how limited 223. Slaves of wife, vested absolutely in husband 223. May be bequeathed by infants 223. Not liable to forfeiture 223. Not to be sold by execution, except under particular circumstances 224. Heir at law, accountable for proportion of slaves, if mother die intestate 224. Not to affect prior adjudications 224. No remainders heretofore limited 224. How slave smay

be annexed to, and pass with lands 225. May be annexed by tenant in tail 225. Slaves annexed to lands, liable to debts 226. Proviso 226. Dower or partition of, may be demanded by bill in equity 227. Also proportions of younger children, against the heir 227. How widows may renounce provisions of their husbands' wills 228. Duty on slaves imported 317, 318. Various regulations for collecting 318 to 322. Stealing a slave, felony without clergy 325. Allowed the benefit of clergy 326. Not to be witnesses, except on the trial of a slave 327. Duties on, continued 394. Duty on, and how secured 471. Slave dying, duty remitted 472.

SMITH, FRANCIS,

Authorised to convey certain entailed lands to John Speincer 117.

SPOTSYLVANIA

County formed 77. Boundaries 77. Appropriation for 78. Privileges of inhabitants 78. −−− Parishes 78. −−− Process from Essex, King and Queen, and King William to run into, until a court is established 78, 79. Court days 79. Court of, removed from Germanna to Fredericksburg 364. Parish of St. George in, to pay certain monies to Saint Mark 365. −−− Divided, and Orange formed 450. Boundaries 450. Compensation to James Taylor, for running the dividing line, between, and Orange 514.

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SQUIRRELS.

Act for destroying, in the Northern Neck, and on the Eastern shore 446.

STOLEN GOODS.

Receiver of, how punished 273.

STORE-HOUSE.

To burn, or break any storehouse, and steal thereout over 20 shillings, felony without clergy 271, 272.

SUFFRAGE.

See Burgesses' Elections.

SUPERSEDEAS.

When grantable to the general court 188.

SURGEONS.

Fees of regulated 509, 510.

SURRY.

Part of Surry and Isle of Wight counties added to Brunswick 355. Boundaries 536.

SURVEYORS.

Their duty, in surveying land 38. Proportion of tract 38. −− Must certify the quality 38. Their fees 419, 504. Surveyor to produce his book of entries to a person wishing to make a location 511. Penalty for refusing 511. Entries, made at different times 511. No survey to be made by a surveyor of another county 512. −− No note, or security to be taken for surveyor's fees 512. Penalty on refusing to abate in his fees, for conveniency 512. Entries, how to be made 513.

SURVEYS.

Lands, how to be surveyed 38. Proportion of the tract 38.

TAR.

Premiums, for making tar and

hemp 96, 97. −−− Certificates, how obtained 97. −− Oath required 97. Penalty for perjury 99.

TAXES.

Called Public Levy 300.

TAYLOE, JOHN,

Authorised to receive a conveyance of certain entailed lands, from Francis Yeates 28. −−− Certain entailed lands confirmed to 378.

TENANT IN COMMON.

Action of account, given to 285.

THORNTON, WILLIAM & FRANCIS.

Agreement between, and Richard Coleman for exchange of certain entailed lands confirmed 378.

TITHABLES.

What free negroes, &c. are tithable 133. Not to be employed, without certificate 208.

TOBACCO.

Warehouses, at first called rolling-houses, established for reception of 32. Those already built continued 33. County courts may establish new ones 33. Mode of acquiring land 33. How such houses acquired for public use, where the owner refuses to build, &c. 34. Restrictions as to the power of the courts 34. Owner not to keep stock, on the land 35. Rates of storage 35. Penalty for refusing to receive tobacco or goods, or suffering either to be damaged 35. Right of appeal in general court 36. −− Act of 9th Ann, ch. 8, concerning, made perpetual 57.

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Penalty for tending seconds 87. Stalks, from which tobacco is cut, to be dug up, within twenty days 87. Penalty 88. Overseer liable to penalty 88. Penalties appropriated 88. How recoverable 88. This act to be read by sheriffs at court houses 88. County courts may discontinue rolling-houses, inconvenient, and order others to be built 91. Lands, how acquired 91. Tobacco not accounted convenient, lodged at a warehouse put down 92. −− Owners to keep fit persons to receive tobacco 92. Penalty for brining in tobacco from North Carolina, or the controverted bounds, between that colony and Virginia 175. How seized and sold 176. −− Persons, at iron works, not to make tobacco 230. Further regulations for preventing the tending of seconds 241 to 244. All tobacco to be inspected before exported 247. To be exported from warehouses only 247. Oath of masters of vessels 247. Tobacco shipt in bulk, may be seized 248. Penalty 249. Felony, not to deliver tobacco as sent, or to break open, and take out any 250. Proviso 250. Inspectors, how appointed 251. Their duty 251. Notes, how issued 251, 252. Notes to be current 252. Allowance for cask 252. Inspectors' fees 252. Allowance to inspectors for printed notes & receipts 253. Hot tobacco to be shipt 253. Penalty on inspectors, for not

delivering tobacco 254. Abatement, in payments, in certain counties 254. How made 255. Sheriffs, &c. to pay the same as received 255. When public tobacco debts to be paid 255. Levies and fees payable in notes 255, 256. Distress for, when and how to be made 256. Distress for quit-rents 256. Sheriffs, when to pay 256. Inspectors notes, a legal tender 256. Penalty for clandestinely carrying tobacco to Maryland 257. Scales and weights to be provided 257. Nails 258. Tobacco to be stampt 258. What deemed trash 258. Size of tobacco hogsheads 258. Refused tobacco, how disposed of 259. −− Overseers liable for 259. −−− Weights of tobacco to be entered 259. Manifest, when to be furnished 259. Inspectors to make returns 260. Oath of inspectors 261. Bond 261. −− Attendance 261. Tobacco belonging to inspectors, how to be viewed 261. Salary of inspectors 262. How to account 262. Deficiency to be made good 262. Penalty on inspectors, for taking a reward 263. No inspectors to trade 263. −− May collect their own debts 263. Penalty for passing bad tobacco 263. When to open tobacco inspected 264. Consequence of it's being refused 264. Forging and counterfeiting tobacco notes 265. −− Warehouses established 266 to 268. How land for warehouses, may be acquired 268.

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Oath of commissioners 269. Where the owner refuses to build, courts may 269. Warehouses are discontinued 270. Not to take houses, orchards, &c. 270. Loss by fire, made good by general assembly 270. Masters of vessels, permitted to employ their own boats in carrying tobacco on board 309, 310. Additional penalty for taking tobacco on board in bulk 330. New warehouses 331. Two inspectors to each warehouse 331. Exception 332. Currency of tobacco notes 332. Weight of hogshead of tobacco 332. Allowance for inspectors' notes 333. Part of former act, imposing penalty on inspectors, for passing bad tobacco, repealed 333. Salaries of inspectors altered 334. Attendance of inspectors 336. Commissioners to provide all necessaries at warehouses 337. Duty of inspectors 337. Notes lost, how the tobacco obtained 338. Penalty for taking false oath of loss of note 338. Allowance for cask 339. Regulations as to transporting by water 339. Warehouses burnt, inspectors indemnified 340. −− Certain warehouses discontinued, and others established 381. Certain warehouses united 382. Roy's and Gibson's disjoined 382. Rents of warehouses 382, 383, 384. County courts may direct warehouses to be built or repaired 384. Proviso 384. How right of property in warehouses

acquired 384. Salaries of inspectors 385. Levies, quit-rents, and officers' fees, where payable 386. Circulation of notes, in certain counties 386, 387. Old notes, how payable 387. Levy for conveniency 387. −− Duty of inspectors 387. −−− Transfer notes, how exchanged for crop 388. Transfer tobacco, when sold 388. Weight of hogshead of tobacco 388. −− Picking tobacco 388. When tobacco to be burnt 389. Inspected tobacco may be viewed 389. Attendance of inspectors 389. Overseers, when liable 389. Nails, &c. how provided 389. Weights and scales 389. Power of justices over inspectors 390. Part of former law, prohibiting masters of vessels, from employing their own sailors, in loading, repealed 390. No tobacco to be sold till inspected 391. Carrying tobacco to North Carolina or Maryland 391, 392. Frauds, in shipping, how detected 392. Tobacco not to be inspected out of the district where made 392. No execution or distress for, between certain periods 424. Certain warehouses revived 479. New warehouses, established 479. Penalty on justices neglecting their duty 480. Regulations as to inspections, and passing notes in several counties 480. Rents of warehouses raised 480. Inspectors when liable to action 481. To lay before the court an account of tobacco at September

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481. Inspectors ineligible as burgesses 481. Act for cutting up tobacco suckers, amended 507. Constables to be sworn 508. Form of oath 508. Reward, when payable 508. −− Act making compensation for tobacco burnt in Gray's creek warehouse 533.

TOMKIES, CHARLES,

Certain entailed lands vested in 457.

TOWNS.

Fredericksburg and Falmouth established 237, 239. Various regulations concerning 234 to 239.

TRANSFER.

Tobacco, when to be sold 388.

TREASON.

See High Treason.

TREASURER.

Treasurer appointed 135, 150, 433. Monies arising from duties on liquors and slaves to be paid to 135. Salary 135, 150, 435. Must give bond and security 135, 150. Vacancy, how supplied 136, 151, 435. Burgesses' wages, payable in money 136. Appropriation of monies in hands of, for premiums on hemp 136. To account for duties, on oath 148. May borrow money 436.

TREATIES.

Treaty with the five nations of Indians, made at Albany 103.

TRESPASS.

One defendant acquitted in, to recover costs 357.

TRUST, DEEDS OF

How to be executed and recorded 398.

TURBERVILLE, GEORGE

Certain entailed lands in Westmoreland vested in, and other lands in Stafford, settled to the same uses 307.

TURNER, THOMAS

Certain entailed lands vested in 377.

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES,

Of slaves, how suppressed, and punished 128, 129, 130.

USURY.

Rate of interest 295. Penalty for exceeding 295. Brokerage 295. Contracts, &c. for more than legal interest void 395. Plaintiff shall recover costs 396. Borrower may exhibit a bill in equity 396. Interest reduced to five per cent. 397. Penalty for exceeding 397.

VAGABONDS.

Who deemed such 209. How apprehended 209. Removal of 209. When to be committed, or hired out 210. Wages how appropriated 210. Settlement, what 219. How poor persons removed to their own parish 210. If sick, how disposed of 211. Penalty on churchwardens refusing to receive them 211. Vestry liable for expences 211.

VENDITIONI EXPONAS.

Form of 161.

WAGES.

Of burgesses 279. How drawn 279. No wages, for absentees 278, 280. Exception 279.

WARE-HOUSES.

At first called rolling-houses 32. Those already built continued 33. County courts may

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establish new ones 33. Mode of acquiring land 33. How such houses may be acquired for the public, where the owner refuses to build, &c. 34. −− Restriction, in the power of the county court 34. Owner not to keep stock, on the land 35. Rates of storage 35. −− Penalty on owner refusing to receive tobacco or goods, or suffering either to be damages 35. Right of appeal to general court 36. County courts may discontinue those inconvenient to public landing, and order others to be built 91. −− How to acquire the land 91. No storage, when a warehouse is put down 92. Owners to keep fit persons to receive the tobacco 92. Storage for salt 92. New warehouses established 266 to 268. How land for, acquired 268. If owner refuses to build, court may 269. When they are discontinued 270. Not to take houses, orchards, &c. 270. −− If burnt, tobacco paid for by the public 270. To burn or break any warehouse or storehouse, and steal over the value of 20 shillings, felony without clergy 271, 272. New warehouses 331. Two inspectors to each 331. Certain warehouses discontinued, and others established 381. Certain warehouses rented 382. Roy's and Gibson's disjoined 382. Rents of warehouses 382, 383. Power of county courts over 384. Property in, how acquired 384. New ones established 479.

WARRANTS.

For sums under twenty shillings 195.

WASHINGTON, JOHN

Certain lands, in Westmoreland, whereof George Weedon is seized in fee tail vested in, in fee simple 377.

WEIGHTS & MEASURES,

To be according to the English standard 406. To be provided by the counties 406, 407. Denominations 407. To be sealed 407. Fees 407. Steelyards 407.

WESTMORELAND.

Court day of altered 366.

WIFE.

Slaves of, vested absolutely in husband 283.

WILLIAMSBURG.

Act preventing swine going at large in 116. Power of court of hustings of, as to ordinaries 139. In prosecutions for criminal offences 139. Inhabitants not compellable to perform militia duty, out of limits of 140. Excepted in act concerning ordinaries 426. −− Criminal charges in, to be paid by the counties of James City and York 447. Jurisdiction of court of hustings of, enlarged 542.

WILLIAM & MARY

College, donation to 74. Duties appropriated to 148. Revenues of, better secured 429, 430. Duty on tobacco exported to North Carolina 431. On skins and furs 431. Whole duty of 1 penny per gallon, appropriated, 432. Professors and students exempt from levies, 433.

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WILLIS, HENRY

Certain entailed lands in Gloucester and Elizabeth City docked, and vested in Henry Willis, 461.

WILLS.

See executors & administrators
Jurisdiction of county courts, in probats of wills, and administrations, 12. In what county will to be proved, 12. Administration with the will annexed, when to be granted, 13. Heir at law to be summoned to contest the will, 13. Saving to infants, and those under legal disabilities, 14, Effect of probate, 15. Consequence of a will being produced after administration 16. Court may compel the production of a will, 16. Probats and commissions of administration to be signed by governor, 16. Executors and administrators to take an oath, 17. Form of oath of executor, 17. Of an administrator 17. Bond and security, when to be taken, 17. Condition of bond by executors and administrators with the will annexed, 18. Condition of administrator's bond, 19. Bonds to be made payable to justices, 20. Wills to remain among records where proved, 23. Power of General Court in granting probates, 23. How probats to issue, 24. Lists of probats & administrations to be returned to secretary's office, 25.

WITNESSES.

Punishment of slaves giving false testimony, 127. Charge

to the witness, 128. Aged, or infirm, or going beyond the seas, how their depositions may be taken, 192. Allowance to, in county courts, 193. Summons for, how to issue, 193. Witnesses failing to attend, penalty on, 193. When they may be excused, 194. Subpœnas for, how to issue, 196. Negroes, mulattoes and Indians not to be witnesses, except on the trial of a slave, 327. How summoned before the governor and council, as to controversies concerning entries to lands, 352. Their allowance, and how paid, 358. Indians may be, in criminal cases against Indians, 405. Allowance to, and how paid, 422. Allowance to, for attending the county courts, reduced 523.

WOLVES.

Reward for killing wolves, except by foreign Indians, to be paid by county and repaid by public, 89. County courts to allow and levy rewards, 89. −− What proof necessary, 89. −− Certificate to be granted by magistrates, 90. −−− Ears of wolves, heads to be cut off 90. Claims, how certified to General Assembly, 90. Reward for killing reduced, 354. The whole head to be produced, and oath made, 354. Form of oath, 354. Quakers may affirm, 354. Other proof, 354. Penalty for false oath or affirmation, 354. When justice may delay giving certificate 355.

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WRIT OF ENQUIRY.

When necessary, 187.

WRIT OF RIGHT.

Limitation on, 402.

YEATES.

Francis, authorised to convey certain entailed lands to John Tayloe, 28.

YORK.

Town of, wooden chimnies not to be built, or hogs or goats suffered to run at large therein, 465. Retailing strong liquors in, prohibited, 543.

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