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ACCOUNTS.
      Act of 1748, prescribing the method of proving book debts, repealed 133. Limitation of actions on store accounts 133. Delivery of articles to be dated 133. When limitation to commence 134. Courts and juries ex officio to take notice of this act 134.
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.
      All acts of assembly which would have expired at the end of, or during the session of March 1781, continued 401.
ADDRESS.
      Address of the general assembly of Virginia, to congress, on the alarming situation of the southern states, as it respects the operations of the enemy 539.
ADJOURNMENT.
      One judge, or more, of general court may adjourn 402. Judges may adjourn their courts
if they think they cannot sit with safety 408.
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
      Commissioner of war to discharge the duties belonging to the adjutant general's department 428. Military commissions to issue from the war office 428.
ADMIRALTY.
      Court of admiralty, when to sit at Richmond 89. Court of admiralty established 98. −− Number of judges 98. Jurisdiction 98. By what laws governed 98. Provision where regulations of congress conflict with laws of state 98. −− Judges how chosen 98. Oath of judges 98. Penalty for acting without oath 99. Register, advocate and marshal 99. Tenure of office 99. −− Court where to sit 99. Sale of perishable goods 100. −− Rules of practice 100. Libel, citation, publication, defence, depositions, 100. Trial by

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jury 101. Security for costs, when 101. Sale of goods condemned 101. Appeal, right of, and to what tribunal 101. Present judges confirmed in office 101. Salary of judges 118. Court of admiralty continued in Williamsburg 136. Marshal's fees 232. Salary of the judges rated in tobacco 277. A jury to estimate the value of the tobacco in money 277. Court of admiralty may sit any where on proper occasions 408. Salary of judges, in specie 493.
ADVOCATE.
      In court of admiralty, how appointed 99. Tenure of office 99.
AGENTS.
      Military agents to be appointed 71. Their duty and compensation 71. Salary of commercial agent 278.
ALBEMARLE.
      Vestry of Albemarle parish in county of Sussex dissolved 366.
ALEXANDER, JOHN
      Certain lots laid off by John Alexander annexed to the town of Alexandria 192.
ALEXANDRIA.
      Towns of Alexandria and Winchester incorporated 172. −− Officers, how elected 173. −− Style of corporation of Alexandria 173. Mayor, recorder &c. how qualified 173. How long mayor eligible 173. Judicial and ministerial powers of mayor, recorder & aldermen 173. Limitation of jurisdiction 174.
Market days 175. Officers, how removable for misconduct 175. Penalty for refusing to execute office to which elected 175. Common council, how summoned 175. Property heretofore vested in trustees of Alexandria, transferred to corporation 176. −− Town of Winchester incorporated in same manner as Alexandria 176. Style of corporation 176. Jurisdiction 176. Certain sales and leases of lots made by trustees of Alexandria confirmed 192. −− Certain lots laid off by John Alexandria 192. Proprietors allowed a further time after the end of the present war, to build upon and save their lots 193. Naval officer of district of south Potowmack to appoint a deputy to reside in Alexandria 208.
ALIENS.
      Who deemed aliens 129.
ALLEGIANCE.
      Form of oath of allegiance or fidelity 22. Oath of governor, council, and others 22, 23. Acts imposing treble taxes on those refusing to take the oath of allegiance repealed 194. Such taxes, when & how reimbursed 194.
ALLIES.
      Deserters from army or navy of our allies, how apprehended 267.
ALLOWANCES.
      Judges of superior courts authorised to make allowances to their officers 118.

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AMHERST.
      Boundaries of parishes of Amherst and Lexington, in the county of Amherst altered 369.
ANDERSON, JOHN &
MEAD.
      Lead mines, the property of John & Mead Anderson, to be assessed for taxes, according to the value of the soil only 193.
APPEALS, COURT OF
      When to sit at Richmond 89, 152. Court of appeals established 90. Terms 90. Of what judges constituted 90. Precedence of judges 90. −− Oath of judges 90. Clerk, tipstaff and crier 91. Sheriff to attend 91. Appeals, writs of error, &c. how prosecuted 91. Duty of clerks, as to records, bonds, &c. 91. Docketting causes 91. Statement of cases 92. Decisions, how certified 91. Certain land claims to be laid before court of appeals and there decided 48. Court of appeals to sit at Richmond 152. Terms of court of appeals altered 455. Court of appeals may sit beyond their term, and then the term of the high court of chancery to commence the next day 455.
APPEALS.
      To court of appeals, how prosecuted 91. From decisions of court of admiralty, how made, & to what tribunal 101.
APPRENTICES.
      Penalty on masters receiving any consideration for the
enlistment of their apprentices 335. County courts below the falls of the rivers shall bind out at least half their male orphans to the sea 385.
ARMS.
      Arms belonging to this state or United States, how recovered from those who have the unlawful possession 218.
ARMY.
      Volunteers to be raised 18. How organized 18. Officers and staff 18. How appointed 19. Chaplains 19. Pay, rations, &c. same as continental 19. Spirits and sugar, how furnished 19. Bounty and term of service 20. Volunteers for western frontiers 20. Arms &c. how furnished 20. Where posted, & time of service 21. Pensions and provision for wives & indigent parents 21. Additional bounties to soldiers, sailors and marines 23. Land bounty 24. Pensions 24. Exempted from personal taxes 24. Goods at stipulated prices 26. Half pay for life, to generals, field officers, captains, subalterns, chaplains, physicians, surgeons and surgeons' mates 25. Recruiting officers, how appointed 25. Their powers, duty and compensation 25. Troop of cavalry for protection of Illinois 26. Land bounty to volunteers under colonel George Rogers Clarke 26. To soldiers for protection of Illinois 27. Four troops of cavalry for eastern frontier 27. Land bounty to those who enlist

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during the war 27. Cavalry to be raised, during existing invasion 28. Four regiments to be raised; two for the defence of the western, and two for the eastern frontiers 32. Pay and emoluments 34. −− Military agents to be appointed 71. Their duty and compensation 71. Board of war to furnish lists of articles for accommodation of army 72. Board of trade to procure such articles 72. How transmitted to army 72. Invoices & prices to be sent with goods 73. Accountability of agents 73. Duty of board of war in ascertaining wants of army 73. One 25th man of the militia to be drafted for 18 months 82. Act to enable the governor and council to supply armies and navies of United States with grain & flour further continued 107, 142, 426. All acts empowering county courts to provide for the wives, parents & families repealed 212. Proviso in favor of those in indigent circumstances 212. Officers of the Virginia line, and of the twp state regiments and of artillery authorised to re-enlist their men 214. Bounty 214. Executive authorised to send assistance o our sister state of South Carolina 214. Militia and state troops to be sent 214. Drafts under former laws to be completed 214. New organization of state troops 215. Cavalry and infantry 215. Garrison and
artillery regiment 215. Regiment for defence of western frontiers 215. Enlistments by county lieutenants, how long to continue 216. Money received for enlisting men, how accounted for 216. Summary remedy 216. Militia embodied for relief of South Carolina 221. Provisions for the army procured by purchase or impressment 233. −− Various regulations concerning 234-236. Additional forces to be raised to complete this state-s quota of troops on continental establishment 257. One 15th man of the militia 258. Militia to be laid off into divisions, and each division to recruit a man 258. If not recruited in 30 days to be drafted 259. Term of service 259. Substitutes admitted 259. Bounty 260. Place of rendezvous 260. Returns to be made to governor 260. −− Fines for delinquencies 260. A division or draft producing a deserter, relieved from service 261. Mutiny, how punishable 261. Quakers or menonists drafted, exempted from service, but a substitute to be provided at expense of society 261. Allowance to widows and aged parents of soldiers dying in service 262. Act exempting millers, and persons employed at iron works (except for the public) repealed 262. Additional troops for the war to be raised 326. Number to be furnished by each county 327. Taxes for,

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when and how collected 329. Mode of recruiting men for three years or the war 330. Additional land bounty 331. Land bounty, 300 acres to soldiers who have enlisted, or shall enlist and serve to the end of the war 331. If quota not recruited to be drafted for eighteen months 333. Troops how reviewed, furloughed and rendezvoused 333. Mutiny or resistance to this act, how punishable 334. Quakers & menonists drafted, exempted from personal service, but a substitute to be furnished at expense of society 335. Desertions, how guarded against 335. Sick soldiers provided for 335. Waggons procured by impressment 335. Penalty on masters receiving any consideration for the enlistment of their apprentices 335. Penalty for selling recruits 336. Additional penalties for concealing deserters 336. −− Person enlisting a soldier for the war exempted from all other drafts or militia duty 337. Clothing for the army to be furnished by certain counties, in what proportion, and of what to consist 338. Mode of furnishing the clothing for the army in each county 339. −− Beef for the army, how furnished by the several counties 340. Waggons for the army, how furnished by the several counties 342. Act for procuring a supply of provisions for the use of the army revived and amended 344.
Prices for provisions 344. −− Continental officers of this state reduced 373. Officers to supply themselves with clothing 374. Their pay and rations to be made equal to specie; also the soldiers' pay 374. Public stores discontinued & clothier general appointed 374. Half pay to widows & children of officers dying in service 374. Paid by scale of depreciation 374. Officers to have half pay for life 374. −− Land bounty to general officers 375. Bounty in lands encreased to other officers 375. Legal representatives entitled to bounty 375. Land given to Baron Steuben 375. Funds vested in agent, for clothing for the army 376. Public vessels may be employed in transporting clothing 377. −− Provided that one armed vessel and a tender shall be employed on the Chesapeake 377. Corn may be exported in exchange for salt 377. −− Two legions to be raised 391. Number, officers, & staff 391. Pay and emoluments 392. −− Further time allowed to execute the acts for recruiting this state's quota of troops for the continental army, and for supplying the army with clothes, provisions and waggons 393. Troops in the two legions exempted from drafts 410. Term of service 411. Persons opposing laws for calling out military force, declared civilly dead 414. Officers appointed to enlist soldiers

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for two years or the war 433. Expenses of recruiting, how paid 434. Bounty and immunities 434. Officers in the state line reduced 449. −− Regiments consolidated 449. Not to affect general Spotswood's legions 449. State quarter-master's, commissaries, commissioners, &c. not absolutely necessary to be discharged 449. Executive to call all officers reduced or discharged to account 450. Surplus stores, &c. transferred to similar continental officers 450. For what time pay and subsistence of officers and soldiers to be made equal to specie 462. Auditors to adjust accounts according to scale of depreciation & give printed certificates payable with interest 462. Also of officers and soldiers dead 462. Or, out of the service, for the time they served 463. Auditors to return a list of certificates to the treasurer 463. Advance to officers 463. Further pay in specie 463. Officers to account for money advanced 463. In what manner 464. And for clothing 464. Certificates to be received on sale of forfeited estates 464. If sales paid for in specie, that to be reserved for redeeming certificates 464. −− Scale of depreciation 464. Further tract of territory allotted for officers and soldiers in lieu of that fallen into North Carolina 464. When and how their lands may be
surveyed 466. Return to be made of state officers & their merits 466. Their pay & subsistence to be made equal to continentals 467. Also their bounty in lands, to be surveyed as the regulars 467. −− Cavalry the same advantages as infantry 467. Officers and seamen of the navy, same as land service 467. Tobacco received for confiscated estates to be sold and the money to redeem certificates 467. Act for supplying southern army with waggons and horses 482. Penalty on sheriffs and justices for neglect 462. How recoverable 482. Waggons and teams how disposed of 483. Governor & council to appoint persons to purchase waggon horses 483. −− Virginia line on continental establishment to be recruited for two years or the war 499. Recruiting expenses 499. −− Advance of money 499. Soldiers enlisting for two years or the war, entitled to same bounty and immunities as other continentals 499. Person furnishing a soldier for two years or the war, exempted from militia duty 500.
ARTICLES OF WAR.
      To be published 311. Militia in actual service, subject to 416.
ARTIFICERS.
      Artificers employed at iron works exempted from militia duty 397. Act continued 425, 444.
ARTILLERY.
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continental service authorised to re-enlist their men 214. −− Organization of garrison and artillery regiment 215.
ASSEMBLY.
      Wages of members of general assembly, in tobacco, how estimated and paid 30, 104, 229. Capitol to be erected for at Richmond 86. 86. When to sit at Richmond 89. Grand jury, at general court, to estimate price of tobacco payable to members of assembly 104. Acts fixing allowance of members of general assembly explained and amended 137. Elections for members of assembly may be held at any place secure from the enemy 412.
ASSESSORS
      Of tax, further duties of 10. Their oath 11. Allowance encreased 14. Duty of commissioners of tax and assessors in furnishing lists to sheriffs 166. Allowance to commissioners and assessors 167. Their duty in classing lands 242. Their oath on that occasion 242. General oath 243. Rule, if a difference of opinion 243. Duty of commissioners and assessors 246. Allowances 247, 252. Assessors to be annually appointed, but to assess once in two years 252. Penalty for neglect of duty 252. Penalty on assessors encreased 361.
ASSIGNMENT.
      Warrants and certificates assignable 60. Loan office certificates for paper money called
in, transferrable by assignment only 457.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
      Salary of attorney general 118, 219, 278, 493. Salary of attorney general rated in tobacco 278. Value of tobacco in money estimated by grand jury 278. Salary of attorney general in specie 493.
AUCTION.
      See Vendues, and page 158.
AUDITORS.
      Salaries of clerks in auditors office encreased 107, 208, 219, 278. Salary of auditors 118, 219. Commissioners of tax to settle with sheriffs, & transmit account of settlement to auditors 247. Salary of auditors rated in tobacco 278. Value of tobacco in money, estimated by grand jury 278. One judge of general court may qualify the auditors 402. Salary of auditors in specie 493.
AUGUSTA.
      Part of the county of Augusta added to Monongalia 114. −− Another part of Augusta added to Monongalia 351.
BACON.
      Tax, payable in bacon 490.
BAIL.
      Disaffected persons, confined by order of executive not to be set at liberty by bail, mainprize, or habeas corpus 414.
BAINE, ROBERT.
      Estate of Robert Baine, sold as escheated property, restored to him 452.
BALL, BURGESS
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Ball is seized as tenant for live, vested in trustees to be sold, and the monies laid out in other lands 469.
BANISHMENT.
      Governor and council authorised to banish disaffected persons 414. Felony without clergy to return from banishment 414.
BANNS.
      No marriage (except between quakers and menonists) but on licence or publication of banns 362.
BARLEY.
      Tax, payable in barley 490.
BATH.
      Further time allowed purchasers of lots in town of Bath to improve them 108.
BAY.
      Lands on bay of Chesapeake, not to be granted 227.
BECK, WILLIAM
      Lands on bay of Chesapeake, not to be granted 227.
BEDFORD.
      Bedford county divided and Campbell formed 447. Boundaries 447. Court days 447.
BEEF.
      See Pork, Beef, &c.
      Act for inspection of pork, beef, &c. 290. Fees altered 290. Penalties altered 291. Beef for the army how furnished by the several counties 340.
BETTING.
      Penalty on those who play or bet at games or wagers 205.
BILBERRY, BENJAMIN
      Cate a slave the property of
Benjamin Bilberry emancipated 372.
BILLIARD TABLES
      Tax on, in specie 504.
BILLS OF CREDIT.
      Stealing, taking by robbery, forging or counterfeiting certain bills of credit, felony without clergy 93.
BONDS.
      Sheriffs annually to give bond for collection of taxes 506. A copy to be sent to auditors, which shall be evidence 506. Duty bonds, how given 512. Proceedings thereon 515.
BOOK DEBTS.
      Act of 1748, prescribing method of proving book debts repealed 133. Limitation of actions on store accounts 133. Delivery of articles to be dated 133. Penalty for post-dating 133. When limitation to commence 134. Courts and juries bound ex officio to take notice of this act 134.
BOONSBOROUGH.
      Town of Boonsborough in Kentucky county established 134.
BOUNTY.
      See Army.
      Additional bounties to soldiers, sailors and marines 23. Land bounty 24. Land bounty to volunteers under col. George Rogers Clarke 26. To soldiers for protection of Illinois 27. To those who enlist during the war 27. Land bounty to chaplains, surgeons and surgeons' mates 141. Proportion of land bounty to

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officers and soldiers 160. Rights of those slain or dying in service devolve on their heirs or legal representatives 161. −− Bounty to militia ordered for relief of South Carolina 224. Bounty for recruits or drafts for the continental army 260. Bounty in lands, &c. to sailors and marines for protection of eastern frontier 298. Land bounty 300 acres to soldiers who have enlisted or shall enlist and serve to the end of the war 331. Land bounty to general officers 375. Bounty in lands to other officers encreased 375. Legal representatives entitled to bounty 375. Land given to Baron Steuben 375. Further tract of territory allotted for bounty of officers and soldiers, in lieu of that fallen into North Carolina 465. When & how their lands may be surveyed 466. State troops as to land bounty, made equal to continentals 467. Soldiers enlisting for two years or the war, entitled to same bounty and immunities as other continentals 499. Resolution extending land bounty to certain officers and soldiers 539.
BRIBERY.
      Penalty on collector of duties for receiving a bribe, or conniving at a false entry 513. And on persons offering a bribe 514.
BRITISH DEBTS.
      So much of act for sequestering British property, &c. as allow
debtors to pay their debts into the treasury repealed 227.
BRITISH PROPERTY.
      British property vested in the commonwealth by escheat & forfeiture 67. Proceedings, how instituted 67. Office found for commonwealth vests the property absolutely 67. But right to money proceeding from sale of property may be afterwards asserted 67. Commissioners of sale 68. Sales how conducted 68. Allowance to escheators 68. Grants for escheated lands, how obtained 68. Proceedings against escheators for delinquency 68. Allowance to commissioners 69. Nett proceeds to be extended in tobacco, how estimated 69. −− Duty of escheators to be performed in Norther neck, by sheriffs 69. British subjects described 69. Property, in particular instances, excepted out of this act 70. Provision for widows, wives, and children 71. Mode and rules of proceeding on traverse of office, and monstrans de droit 153. All bona fide sales by British subjects, valid, collusive sales, declared void, and how detected 154. Injunctions to inquisitions of escheat, how and for what causes obtained 155. Who are excepted out of the former act, and how relievable 156. Titles to estates found to have been escheated, or forfeited, to which a claim either had not been

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made, or had been discussed, for the commonwealth, confirmed to the purchasers, saving the rights of all persons to the purchase money 201. So much of act for sequestering British property, &c. as allows debtors to pay their debts into the treasury repealed 227. Act concerning escheats and forfeitures from British subjects suspended, as to lands in Henry & Amherst, conveyed by John Harmer to Walter King Cole & George Harmer 300. Slaves sold as the escheated property of John Harmer and purchased by the public restored to George Harmer 371.
BRITISH SUBJECTS.
      See Escheats, Forfeitures.
      Property of British subjects vested in commonwealth, the lands, slaves, and other real estate, by escheat, the personal estate by forfeiture 67. -- Proceedings thereon 67, 69. British subjects described 69. Provision for widows, wives and children 71. Mode and rules of proceeding on traverse of office, and monstrans de droit 153. All bona fide sales by British subjects valid; −− Collusive sales declared void, and how detected 154. Injunctions to inquisitions of escheat, how and for what causes obtained 155. Who are excepted out of the former act and how relievable 156. Act concerning escheats and forfeitures suspended, as to lands in Henry and
Amherst, conveyed by John Harmer to Walter King Cole & George Harmer 300.
BRUNSWICK.
      Brunswick county divided and Greensville formed 363. −− Boundaries 363. Court days 363.
BYRD, WILLIAM
      Charles Carter, esq. the surviving trustee of William Byrd, esq. authorised to convey lots and lands held under Byrd's lottery, and a deed of trust 446.
CÆSAR.
      Barber Cæsar alias John Hope, a slave of Susanna Riddle emancipated 211.
CAMPBELL.
      Campbell county formed from Bedford 447. Boundaries 447. Court days 447.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM
      Wm. Campbell, Walter Crockett and others indemnified for suppressing a conspiracy & insurrection 195.
CAPITOL.
      See seat of Government.
      For general assembly to be erected in Richmond 86. −− Land, how acquired & paid for 87. Capitol and palace in Williamsburg to be sold in the event that taxes prove unproductive 285. Capitol in Richmond located on Shockœ hill 317.
CARRIAGES.
      Tax on carriages 166, 244. Tax payable in specie 594.

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