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Statutes at Large

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ABATEMENTS.
      Allowed in tobacco payments 392, 423.
ACCOMACK.
      Parish of Accomack, in county of Accomack divided, and St. George formed 614.
ACCOUTREMENTS.
      Of privates of militia, of what to consist 94. Of officers 99. Time allowed to provide them 99.
ADJUTANT.
      To be ferry free 103.
AGENT.
      Edward Montague, Esq. appointed agent in Great Britain 276. Committee of correspondence and their duty 276. A majority to act 276. Agent removeable by committee 277. Authorised to receive money, granted by parliament, to aid the southern colonies, in the French & Indian war 374. Act for appointing an agent explained 375. Committee to correspond with enlarged 646.
ALBEMARLE.
      Albemarle county divided, and
Buckingham and Amherst formed 419. Part of Louisa added to Albemarle 420. −− Justices of Albemarle to refund to Amherst and Buckingham their proportion for weights and measures, before the division 625.
ALEXANDRIA.
      Town of, enlarged 604. Limits 605. Privileges of owners of marsh lots 606.
AMHERST.
County, formed from Albemarle 419. Boundaries 420. Court days 420. Parish of Amherst formed from St. Anne 421. Glebe land of St. Anne's parish to be sold, and the money divided between that parish and Tillotson and Amherst 422. Justices of Albemarle to refund to Amherst and Buckingham, their proportion for weights and measures before the division 625.
ANTRIM.
      Vestry of Antrim parish in Halifax dissolved 301.

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Authorised to sell their glebe 438.
APPOMATTOX.
      Owners of mills on Appomattox river compellable to make slopes through their dams 409. Act amended 590. Trustees appointed 592. −− Penalty for building hedges, or stops over 593.
ARMS.
      Of militia, how provided 94. Must be furnished by exempts 94. Time allowed to provide them 99. Privileged from executions 100. Penalty for embezzling 113.
ARMY.
      Provision for recruiting to prosecute French and Indian war 11. New recruits to compose Royal American Regiment 61. To be augmented by drafts 69. Mode of drafting 70-75. Forces augmented 163. Bounties 164. How forces disposed of 164. Rangers 164. Friendly Indians, provision for 165. Reward for Indians' scalps 165. Act repealed 241. new taxes, land and poll 166, 174. Treasury notes 167, 174. −− Forts garrisoned by militia 169. When to be discharged 168. Pay, of directed 172. Rangers employed 172-173. Payment for provisions to sundry persons 179-231. −− Forces continued in service, to aid in attack on fort DuQuense 252. Regiment in pay of the colony to be completed 255. Additional forces 256, 357, 495. Forces further continued in service 331,
347,464,495. Old regiment completed and continued 370,381,464. Officers of Virginia regiment rewarded, on being disbanded 492.
ARRESTS.
      Militia privileged from, when, 100. When in actual service 115.
ARTIFICERS.
      pay of 28, 112. Part of new recruits to be employed as artificers 279.
ARTS.
      Act for encouraging arts and manufactures 288. Amended 563. Trustees appointed 288. Their duty 289. Notice of premiums 289. Maximum of premium 289. Useful discoveries how notified 289. Premiums, how paid 290. Subscriptions, how raised 290. Premiums 567. Subscribers names 568.
ASSEMBLY.
      Act for better regulating election of members of &c. 518. An assembly to be held once in three years 518. writs to be issued, when 518. Freeholders qualified to vote 518. Number of members for each county 518. James City 518. qualification of voters 518. Joint-tenants and tenants in common 519. −− further qualifications 519. Who deprived of the privilege of voting 519. Penalty for voting, not being qualified 519. Onus probandi on whom 520. Mode of election 520. Penalties 520. −− Freeholders, under a penalty

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to appear and vote 524. Sheriffs duty in taking the poll 521. His power to adjourn 521. Votes equal, who declared 522. On a scrutiny before the house 522. Test, as to being a free holder 522. Other oaths 522-523. Where free-holders scruple to take oaths 524. Sheriff to deliver copies of poll to the clerk of the council 524. Manner of returning 524. When a member dies 525. Sheriff of James City, the returning officer for the College and James Town 526. No treating 526. Members privileged in their persons and estates 526. −− Allowance to members 527. When payable in money 528. Wages upon an adjournment 528. Court of Claims, preparatory to meeting of Assembly 528. Persons exempted from being members 529. −− Sheriff and Inspectors of tobacco ineligible 529. No member to accept an office of profit 529. City of Williamsburg, Borough of Norfolk and College of William and Mary to elect according to their charters 529. Duration of assemblies, 7 years 530.
ATTACHMENTS.
      Militia privileged from, while in actual service 115.
ATTORNIES.
      Act for regulating practice of, continued, except so much as restrains attornies practising in the general court, from practising in the county courts 124. Fees of 124. −− Penalty for exceeding legal
fees 125. Examiners of, how appointed 397. Method of obtaining license 397. Attorney's oath 398. Who incapable of obtaining license 398. Where an attorney misbehaves 399. Barrister, privileges of 399. Power of county courts over attorneys 399. where attorneys are negligent &c. 399. Attorneys not to practise both in the general and county courts 399. But may finish their causes, in the county courts 400. but two lawyers of a side 400. Fees of attornies 400. Lawyers not to receive more than legal fees 401.
AUGUSTA.
      Court day of, altered 310.
BAIL.
      In actions, founded on the acts concerning seamen and for regulating the unloading of ballast &c. special bail may be required 394.
BAIL−−PIECE.
      To be delivered to bail 405. −− Form of 405.
BALLAST.
      In actions founded on the act regulating the unloading ballast and special bail may be required 394.
BANKRUPT.
      Act for relief of insolvent debtors, on the principles of the bankrupt law 549-563. Act repealed at next session 643.
BANKS, TUNSTALL.
      Intail of certain lands whereof Tunstall Banks is seized, docked 293.

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BARRISTERS.
      Privileges of 399.
BATH.
      Vestry of Bath parish in Dinwiddie dissolved 301.
BATTERIES.
      How guarded 113.
BEDFORD.
      Court day of, altered 415.
BEEF.
      Act for inspection of, revived and amended 40. Inspectors, how appointed 570. their duties 571. Contents of barrel 572. Abatement allowed 573. Appeal 573. Oath required of seller or exporter 574. Duty of Coopers 574.
BENNETT, RICHARD.
      Donation of land, by Richard Bennett and Thomas Tilley to lower parish of Nansemond, how appropriated 304.
BILLETTING.
      Of soldiers, rules concerning 170. Restrictions on 507.
BLANDFORD.
      Trustees of town of, appointed 608. Their power and duties 609. Vacancies, how supplied 609. Forfeiture for not improving lots 610.
BOATS.
      Adrift, how to be proceeded with 548.
BOUNTIES.
See Rewards.
      For men to enlist 164, 257, 358. Governor Dinwiddie's proclamation of 1754 offering a bounty in lands, on the Ohio 661. Proclamation of 1763. Land bounties to officers and soldiers 666. Quantity to each 666. To officers of the navy 666.
BUCKINGHAM.
      County, formed from Albemarle 419. Boundaries 420. Court days 420. Justices of Albemarle to refund to Amherst and Buckingham their proportion for weights and measures, before the division 625.
BURGESSES.
See Assembly.
      Wages, rate of 56. Payable in tobacco 57. Converted into money 57. Payable in money 66, 135, 249, 322, 342, 355, 439, 476, 493, 504, 596, 638. Payable by the respective counties, in tobacco 365. Act for better regulating election of 517. Amount of wages of members 527. −− When payable in money 528. Wages upon an adjournment 528.
BURWELL, LEWIS.
      Intail of certain lands docked and vested in Lewis Burwell 343.
BRIBERY.
      In relation to duties on liquors, how punishable 268.
BRIDGES.
      William Rand authorised to build a bridge over Pagan Creek 156. Justices of Chesterfield not compellable join those of Dinwiddie, in building a bridge over Appomattox 308. Bridge over north branch of James River, to be erected 622. So, over Nottoway river in Southampton.
BRISTOL.
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Bristol parish before the division, and now in parish of Dale, in Chesterfield to be sold and money divided 143. Bounds between parishes of Martin's Brandon and Bristol, settled 613.
BRUNSWICK.
      Court day of, altered 310.
BRUTON.
      Vestry of Bruton parish authorised to sell certain lots in Williamsburg 607.
CAMERON.
      Vestry of Cameron parish in Loudoun dissolved 301. Part of Parish of, added to Truro 612.
CAROLINE.
      Part of King and Queen county added to Caroline 620.
CARRIAGES.
      Provision for collecting taxes 262. Grand juries to present those wh fail to list 264. Carriages, how listed 540. Tax on, how collected 541. Owners to list annually 641.
CARTER, ROBERT.
      Entail of certain lands whereof he is seized, docked 478.
CARY, ARCHIBALD
      Entail of certain lands whereof he is seized, docked 440.
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
      Town of, in Albemarle, established 597.
CHESTERFIELD.
      Court day, altered 656.
CHRIST-CHURCH.
      Vestry of Christ-Church parish in Lancaster dissolved 301.
CHURCHILL, ARMISTEAD.
      Authorized to sell certain entailed lands 157.
CLAIBORNE, PHILIP WHITEHEAD.
      Certain lands, in Hanover, vested in 296, 486.
COIN.
      Rate of German Gold. 576.
COLLECTORS
      Of duties, their power and duty 268, 269. How appointed 272. When to account 273. Of duties on skins and furs, how appointed 284. Salary, duty, fees &c. 284, 285. How collectors may export their own skins & furs 285.
COLONIES.
      Grant of money, by parliament, to southern colonies, to aid in French and Indian war 371, 372.
COMMISSARIES
      To be appointed 30. Their duty 31.
COMMISSIONERS
      To settle military accounts 349, 359, 501. In the country empowered to take special bail on suits in the general court 404.
CONTRACTS.
      Tobacco, payable in money 240. At what rate 240. Act explained 277.
CORBIN GAWIN.
      Executors of, authorized to sell certain entailed lands and slaves 458.
CORN.
      Purchased and supplied for relief of south western parts of the colony, in distress 312.

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CORNWALL.
      Parish of, formed from Cumberland, in Lunenburg county 149, 150. Glebe land of Cumberland parish to be sold, and money divided between parishes of Cumberland, Cornwall and St. James 414.
CORRESPONDENCE.
      Committee of, to correspond with agent in Great Britain 276. Their powers and duties 276, 277.
COUNTIES.
      Fairfax divided, and Loudoun formed 148. Boundaries 148. Court days 148. Prince William divided and Fauquier formed 311. Boundaries 311. Court days 311. Albemarle divided and Buckingham and Amherst formed 419. Part of Louisia added to Albemarle 420. Boundaries 420. Court days 420. Part of King and Queen added to Caroline 620.
COURTS MARTIAL.
      How constituted 88, 90, 503. May inflict corporal punishment 88, 503. Of what number to consist 89, 503. Form of oath 89, 109, 504. May appoint a clerk 89. His oath 90, 109, 504. How many must concur 504. Party tried entitled to a copy of proceedings 90, 505. Transcript to be sent to governor 90, 505. Misbehaviour at how punished 96. Courts martial, for militia, how constituted 96. Their powers 97. Fines for various delinquencies 98.
CREDIT.
      Ordinary keepers may sell
drink on credit, except to sailors, and residents of the county or town 595.
CUMBERLAND.
      Parish of, in Lunenburg, divided and Cornwall formed 149. Again divided, and St. James formed 413. Glebe land to be sold, and money divided between the parishes of Cumberland, Cornwall and St. James 414.
DALE.
      A piece of land belonging to Bristol parish, before the division, and now in parish of Dale, in Chesterfield, to be sold and the money divided 143. Vestry of parish of, authorised to sell their glebe 341.
DALSTONBURG.
      Town of, in Lunenburg, established 305. Trustees appointed 307. Wooden chimnies not to be built in 307.
DEBTS.
      Tobacco debts payable in money 240. At what rate 240. Act explained 277.
DEER.
      Penalty for killing deer and suffering the flesh to remain in the woods, to rot, or be devoured by wild beasts 412.
DELINQUENTS.
      At musters, how noted 96.
DESERTION.
      How punishable 87, 114. How apprehended 91, 505. Duty of constables 91, 506. Reward for apprehending 92, 506. Penalty for harbouring or dealing with 92, 506. Act to prevent, continued

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169, 280, 364, 491. Act to prevent 502.
DETTENGEN.
      Vestry of parish of, in Prince William dissolved 144.
DINWIDDIE.
      Court day of, altered 310.
DIRECTORS.
      Appointed to assist governor, in providing army for protection of frontiers 13. Of Indian factory 116.
DISSENTERS.
      Vestrymen joining congregations, dissenting from the church of England, disqualified. 302. How restored 303.
DISTRESS.
      Militia privileged from, while in actual service 115.
DRAFTS.
      Of militia, made to single men 14. Army augmented by drafts 69. Who liable to be drafted 70. Mode of drafting 70, 75.
DRAWBACK
      On liquors exported, how obtained 269, 270.
DRYSDALE.
      Parish of, in Caroline and King and Queen, authorized to sell their glebe land 573.
DUMFRIES.
      Town of, enlarged 316. Further enlarged 424. Provision for William Carr, Richard Graham, and Robert Scott, lessees of Bertrand Ewell 425. Exception as to land leased by John Murray, and Quantico warehouse 425. Three acres of land of James Douglass and Martin Hardin, formerly added to Dumfries vested in trustees 427.
Act for enlarging town of Dumfries explained 472. Rights of John Baylis as assignee of George Hancock 472. Lots in certain parts of Dumfries not liable to forfeiture, for not being improved 599.
DU QUESNE
      Fort, about to be attacked 252. Forces continued in service to aid in 252. ==> this place was afterwards called Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg.
DUTIES.
      On Tobacco 77, 259, 333. On slaves imported 81, 338. On liquors continued 133, 134. Specific duties on liquors 266. From Great Britain excepted 266. Regulations for collecting 267, 268. Drawback 269. Premium for importing money 271. Duties, how and when paid 272, 273. Governor's madeira wine exempted 273. Act laying additional duty on rum continued 274, 386. On slaves continued 281. On skins and furs 283. How collected 284. Additional duty on slaves taken off 363, 383. On northern rum reduced 646.
EATON'S CHARITY SCHOOL.
      Act for better regulating 317.
ELECTIONS.
      See Assembly−−and page 517-530. Elections for Burgesses, by whom 518. How directed 520. How conducted 521.
ELIZABETH RIVER.
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and Portsmouth parishes formed 416. Vestry dissolved 416. Glebe lands to be sold and the money divided between the three parishes 417.
ENTAILS.
See Fee tail, Lands
ESSEX.
      Court day of, altered 310.
ESTRAYS−−See Strays.
EXEMPTS.
      From militia duty 93, 536. But must furnish arms 94, 537. Not to appear at musters 100.
EXAMINERS.
      Of attornies, how appointed 397. Of pilots 580.
EXECUTIONS.
      Militia privileged from, while in actual service 115. No security to be taken, on executions against sheriffs 642. Deputy sheriff to subscribe his name and that of his principal, on serving executions. 649.
EVIDENCE.
      Acts for regulating militia and given in evidence on general issue 106, 110.
FACTORY.
      Indian factory of Virginia established 116, 118. Trustees to sell the goods, and pay the proceeds into the treasury 354.
FAIRFAX.
      County, divided and Loudoun formed 148. Boundaries 148. Town of Fairfax, in Culpeper, established 306. Provision for Benjamin Davis, lessee of Robert Coleman
306. Trustees appointed 307. Wooden chimnies not to be built 307.
FAUQUIER.
      County formed from Prince William 311. Boundaries 311. Court days 311.
FEES.
      Act for regulating and collecting officers fees, continued 242, 278, 384, 645. Fees due in tobacco, payable in money, at 16s. 8d. per hundred 385. Except in certain counties 385, 386. Fees of attornies, in general and county courts 400.
FEE, TAIL.
      Armistead Churchill authorized to sell certain entailed lands 157. Certain intailed lands vested in Thomas Turner in fee simple 159. Intail of certain lands whereof Tunstall Banks is seized, docked 293. Intail of certain lands docked and vested in Lewis Burwell 343. Entail of certain lands whereof Charles Lewis is seized, docked 377. So, as to Archibald Cary 440. So, as to Carter Henry Harrison 455. Executors of Gawin Corbin authorized to sell certain entailed lands and slaves 458. Entail of certain lands whereof Robert Carter is seized, docked 478. So, as to Mann Page 480. Certain lands vested in Bernard Moore 483. Entail of certain lands whereof John West is seized, docked 488. So, as to William Seward

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514. So, as to Ralf Wormley 628. So, as to Henry Scarburg 634.
FELONY.
      To kill a friendly Indian 123.
FERRIES.
      Megginson's established 55. Fenley's discontinued 55. Adjutant to be ferry free 103. New ferries established and others discontinued 125. Certain public ferries in Norfolk, to be supported at charge of county 152. Duty of keepers, 152. who to pay ferriage, who not 152. New ferries established 299, 401, 588. John Richards authorized to keep a ferry at Leeds in King George 657.
FINES.
      For various delinquencies, in the militia 98. Incurred by infants and servants how paid. 100. Remedy against sheriff failing to collect and account for 101. Appropriation of fines 102, 115.
FLOUR.
      Act for inspection of, revived and amended 40. Inspectors, how appointed 570. Oath of maker 572.
FORTS.
      A chain of, to be erected on frontiers 17. One to be erected in Winchester 33. Fort in Cherokee nation of Indians to be garrisoned by British subjects 62. when to be garrisoned by militia 169, 178. Du Quesne, afterwards called Fort Pitt, or Pittsburg 252. Additional forces raised for relief of Fort Loudoun 357.
FRAUDULENT GIFTS.
      Of slaves, acts to prevent 118, 237.
FREDERICK.
      Vestry of parish of, authorized to sell their glebe 617.
FREDERICKSBURG.
      Town of, enlarged 314. Boundaries 314. Wharf at ferry landing 315. Trustees supplied 315. Trustees supplied 315. Trustees to have streets surveyed, and to erect stones at each corner 650. their power to alter streets 650. Authorised to convey part of a street to Benjamin Grymes 650. Provision for repairing streets 651. Penalty for building wooden chimnies; or suffering hogs to run at large 652. Act for allowing fairs revived 652.
FREDERICKSVILLE.
      Part of St. Anne's parish, in Albemarle, added to, 141. Parish of Fredericksville in Louisa county divided, and Trinity parish formed 428, 429. Fredericksville to pay a certain sum of money to Trinity, for the glebe 429.
FREEHOLDERS.
      Qualified to vote for members of assembly 518.
FREE SCHOOL.
      Devise of lands and slaves, by Henry Peasley, for 41. Trustees appointed 41. Style of corporation 42. Free school founded 42. Power of Trustees 43.
FRENCH
      Neutral, to be transported to Great Britain 39.

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