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DAMAGES.
      Damages against sheriffs on motion 201, 508.
DATE.
      Date of delivery of articles to be stated in store accounts 133. Penalty for post-dating 133.
DEBTS.
      Debts and contracts, in paper money, to be settled by a scale of depreciation 471. −− Actual payments, full or partial, to stand for nominal amount 472. Scale of depreciation 472. Courts may determine disputes according to equity 473. Rule for settling intermediate judgments 473.
DECREES.
      Decrees destroyed, by the enemy, in office of county courts, attested copies to be evidence 453. How far evidence 453.
DEEDS.
      Deeds destroyed, by the enemy, in office of county courts, attested copies to be again recorded 453. How far evidence 453.
DEFENCE.
      In court of admiralty, how made 100.
DELONY, HENRY
      Ned a slave the property of Henry Delony, emancipated 372.
DEPOSITIONS.
      In court of admiralty, how taken and when read 100. Depositions to be taken by commissioners to perpetuate
testimony of records destroyed by the enemy 454.
DEPRECIATION.
      Scale of depreciation for settling accounts of officers and soldiers 464, 465. Debts and contracts, in paper money, to be settled by a scale of depreciation 471. Actual payments, full or partial, to stand for nominal amount 472. −− Scale of depreciation for settling debts and contracts 472. Courts may determine disputes according to equity 473. Rule for settling intermediate judgments 473.
DEPUTY.
      High sheriff's remedy against deputy for taxes and damages 255. Provided judgment had been obtained against the high sheriff for the damages 255. Oath to be taken as to taxes 255. Deputy surveyor how appointed 353. Deputy register of land office, to be appointed by the principal, to reside in the Kentucky country 445. His duties 445.
DESERTERS.
      Deserters, from militia, how punishable 225. A division or draft producing a deserter, relieved from service 261. −− Deserters how apprehended and dealt with 263. Penalty for failing to apprehend deserter 263. Duty and liability of commanders of vessels in relation to deserters 264. Duty of naval officers 264. −− Lists of deserters to be transmitted to war office 265.

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Pardon proclaimed to deserters who return to their duty 265. Punishment of those who neglect the offered pardon 266. Penalty for employing or concealing a deserter 266. −− Commencement of this act 266. Deserters from the armies of our allies, how apprehended 267. Deserters how apprehended and dealt with 314. Desertions how guarded against 335. Additional penalties for concealing deserters 336. Penalty on militia deserting 418. Further encouragement to apprehend deserters 420.
DIRECTORS.
      Of public buildings, how appointed 86. To make returns to clerk's office of Henrico 88. To provide temporary buildings 88.
DISAFFECTED PERSONS.
      Governor and council authorised to confine or remove disaffected persons, or those suspected of attachment to the enemy 310. Further proceedings against disaffected persons 414. Denied bail, mainprize, or habeas corpus 414. May be banished 414. Felony, without clergy to return 414.
DISCONTINUANCE.
      No discontinuance of courts not held in usual terms 408. No discontinuance of general court, or its proceedings, in consequence of a failure to hold a term 421.
DISMAL SWAMP.
      How title to, under order of council, to be perfected 38.
DISSENTERS.
      Marriages celebrated by dissenting ministers confirmed 361. County courts may licence dissenting ministers, to marry, not exceeding four of one sect 363.
DISTILLATION.
      Act prohibiting distillation of spirits from corn, wheat, rye, and other grain repealed 112.
DISTRESS.
      For taxes, how and when made 13, 254, 506. Surplus, how disposed of 14. Serjeant of Williamsburg, the same power to distrain for militia fines as sheriffs 85. Distress for taxes, payable in commodities, when & how made 491, 492. When taxes distrained for 506. When and how sheriff to advertise and sell 507. Directions in case of lands distrained 507. Penalty for unreasonable distress 507. −− Lands not to be sold, if they will not bring three fourths their value 516.
DRAFTS.
      One 25th man of the militia to be drafted for 18 months 82. Drafts under former laws to be completed 214. One 15th of the militia to be furnished for the continental army 258. Militia to be laid off in 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. A division or draft producing a deserter

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relieved from service 261. −− Quakers or menonists drafted, exempted from personal service, but a substitute to be provided at the expense of the society 261, 334. Person enlisting a soldier for the war exempted from all other drafts or militia duty 337. Persons opposing the laws for calling out militia force, declared civilly dead 414. New draft of militia, when 421.
DRYSDALE.
      Parish of Drysdale in Caroline and King and Queen counties divided, and St. Asaph formed 209. Boundaries 209. Glebe of Drysdale parish to be sold, and money divided between parishes of Drysdale and St. Asaph, in proportion to the value of the two churches 210. So much of this last act as directs a valuation of the churches repealed 213.
DUMFRIES.
      Certain lots of William Grayson severed from the town of Dumfries 102.
DUNN, LEWIS.
      His mulatto girl Pegg, emancipated 211.
DUTIES.
      Duties on liquors foreign and domestic 168. Duty on goods imported 169. Mode of collection 169. duty on goods brought into this state for sale 170. Duty on stock in trade of retailers of goods 170. Provision where retailers are about to remove 170. Penalty for removing without giving notice 171. Penalties,
how recoverable 171. Tax or duty on liquors imported 283. Regulations for collecting 283. Duties on goods imported to support the navy 382. How collected 383. −− Encouragement to masters of vessels to make a true entry 384. Congress authorised to impose a duty on goods and prizes 409. And to appoint collectors 409. Appropriation of duties 410. The last act suspended until the other states have passed similar laws 451. Naval officers to receive the duties in their districts 500. Goods imported by land to be entered with the sheriffs 500. New revenue law, imposing taxes and duties 501. Duty on vessels 511. On spirits and wine imported 511. On sugar and coffee 511. On all other goods imported 511. Masters of vessels, importing goods, when and how to report 511. Dutiable goods not to be landed before entry 512. Nor till duty paid or bonded, and permit obtained; goods landed otherwise to be forfeited 512. Same regulations as to goods imported by land 512. How casks of liquors to be entered 512. Penalty for making a false entry 513. If duty not paid or bonded in ten days, after entry, collector may enter the vessel, and seize the goods, and, in two days, sell as much as will pay the duty and charges 513. Penalty on collector receiving a bribe, or

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conniving at a false entry 513. And on person offering a bribe 514. Collector by warrant from a justice accompanied by a constable, may break open any house in the day time, to search for goods, for which the duty is not paid or secured 514. In suits and seizures, the proof shall lie on the claimer of the goods 514. Master may detain goods consigned till duty paid, or security given 514. Directions in case of transportation of goods imported, to another district 515. Premium for paying duties in imported money 515. Proceedings on bonds for duties 515. Allowance to collectors 516. Who are to account & pay half yearly 516.
EASTERN FRONTIER.
      Militia of certain counties called out for defence of eastern frontier 296: Navy to be equipped and manned 297: Bounty in lands, &c. 298: Marines to be enlisted 298: Pay and emoluments 298: Field officers to command militia, on eastern frontier, how appointed 313: Act for defence of eastern frontier 379: Naval force to be fitted out 379: −− Impressment of seamen, under certain restrictions 380: Pay of semen 380: Officers and seamen entitled to whole of any prize 381: Clothing & necessaries, how provided 381: Pay of officers and staff 381: Duty on goods imported
to support the navy 382: How collected 383: Encouragement to masters of vessels to make a true report 384: −− Regulations of congress adopted for trial of offences 384: Allowance to pay-masters 384: Two gallies to be built of the same construction as those at Philadelphia 385: Courts shall bind out at least half their male orphans to the sea 385: Hospital for seamen established by a duty on seamen 385: Where hospital situated 386:
EASTERN SHORE.
      Public lands on eastern shore, and in James city, & capitol and palace in Williamsburg to be sold, in the event that taxes prove unproductive 285:
EASTERN WATERS.
      How grants for lands, surveyed under orders of council, on the eastern waters may be obtained 179: When surveys shall be made of entries on the eastern waters 486: Orders of council for lands on the eastern waters to be valid 486:
ELECTIONS.
      Elections for members of assembly may be held at any place secure from the enemy 412:
ELIZABETH CITY.
      County court of Elizabeth city annually to recommend two inspectors of tobacco 275: −− Their duties and allowances 275: Justices of Elizabeth city county authorised to hold their courts out of Hampton,

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while the court house there is occupied by the troops of our allies as a hospital 495:
EMANCIPATION.
      Kitt, a slave, the property of Hinchia Mabry, emancipated for his meritorious services, in discovering counterfeiters of paper money 115. John Hop alias Barber Cæsar, a slave of Susanna Riddle, Wm. Beck, a mulatto belonging to Thomas Walker, junior, and a mulatto girl Pegg, the property of Lewis Dunn, emancipated 211: Ned and Cate, slaves of Henry Delony, and Benjamin Bilberry emancipated 372:
EMBARGO.
      Act empowering governor and council to lay an embargo, further continued 105, 140, 306, 376, 423: Embargo laid on salt 149: Penalty for breach 149: In what cases exportation of salt permitted 149: Bond to compliance with law 149: Indemnification of governor and others acting under a resolution prohibiting the exportation of salt 150: At empowering governor and council to lay embargoes repealed 443:
ENEMY.
      Personal property of those joining the enemy, how secured 92: When disposed of by escheator 93: Governor and council authorised to confine or remove persons disaffected to the independence of the United States, or suspected of attachment to the enemy 310:
In case of invasion or insurrection those who assist the enemy, &c. subject to martial law 310:
ENGROSSING.
      Act to prevent forestalling, regrating, engrossing & public vendues further continued 157, 425:
ENTRIES.
      For land, how to be made 54: No entry admitted without a warrant, except for settlement rights 54: Certain tracts of country excepted from entry or location 54: How chief surveyor may locate his own lands 56: Notice of survey 56: How surveys to be executed 56, 57: Dutiable goods, when and how entered 512: Not to be landed before entry; not till duty paid or bonded, and permit obtained, goods landed otherwise, forfeited 512:
ERROR.
      Writs of error to court of appeals, how prosecuted 91:
ESCHEATORS.
      Duty and allowance to escheators, in conducting sales of British property 68: Sheriffs in northern neck, to perform duties of escheators 69: When escheators to dispose of personal property of persons joining the enemy 93: Escheators, except in northern neck, how appointed 115: −− How to take inquests 116: −− Traverse, monstrans de droit, petition of right 116: How long lands to remain in hands of escheators before granted 116:

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Duty of clerk of general court to certify to escheator 116: Escheated lands, when sold 116: Particular interests in lands escheated, how secured 117: Remedy in case of inconsistent or untrue inquests 117:
ESCHEATS.
      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 northern neck, by sheriffs 69: British subjects described 69: Property, in particular instances, excepted out to this act 70: Provision for widows, wives, and children 71: Personal property of persons joining the enemy, how secured 92: :−− When disposed of by escheator 93: 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 how
to be 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 made, or had been discussed for the commonwealth, confirmed to the purchasers; saving the rights of all persons to the purchase money 201: Certain escheated lands, in Kentucky county, vested in trustees for a public school 288: Act concerning escheats and forfeitures from British subjects suspended, as to lands, in Henry and Amherst, conveyed by John Harmer to Walter King Cole & George Harmer 300: Slaves restored to George Harmer 371: Estate of Robert Baine, sold as escheated property, restored to him 452:
EVIDENCE.
      Copies certified by register of land office, as good evidence as originals 51: How far attested copies of deeds, wills, judgments, decrees, or orders of court recorded, where the originals have been destroyed by the enemy, are evidence 453: Copies of sheriffs' bonds evidence on motion 506:
EXECUTIONS.
      Executions suspended, except for debts due the commonwealth 472: Except also for rents, and hire of slaves or servants 472:

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EXECUTIVE.
      House for executive boards, to be erected at seat of government, in Richmond 86: Act empowering executive to lay embargo, further continued 105: Acts giving further powers to governor and council further continued 106: Act empowering governor and council to superintend and regulate the public jail further continued 106: Act to enable the governor and council to supply the armies and navies of the United States, and their allies, with grain and flour, further continued 107, 142: −− Acts giving further powers to governor and council further continued 141: Executive vested with extraordinary powers 309: Power to call out militia and appoint officers of experience 310: To march the militia out of the state 310: Governor and council authorised to confine or remove disaffected persons 310: In case of invasion or insurrection, those who assist the enemy subject to martial law 310: Sentence not to be carried into execution, until approved by governor and council 311: Articles of war to be published 311: Powers of governor as to a supply of provisions extended 312: −− Volunteer cavalry called into service 312: Executive authorised to set up a printing establishment, with an able editor firmly attached to the independence of the United
States 313: Act giving further powers to governor and council, revived and continued 386: Power of executive to call out military force to suppress mutiny, or resistance to the laws for recruiting this states quota of troops for the continental army 387: In case of invasion or insurrection, executive authorised to constitute special courts for trial of treasons, &c. 387: Mode of proceeding 387: Executive may by proclamation change the time and place of holding courts 407: Extensive powers of executive to call forth the forces and resources of the state 413: To impress property 413: To order out particular officers 414: To apprehend disaffected persons who are denied bail, mainprize or habeas corpus 414: To send such persons within the enemy's lines 414: To banish others 414: Felony without clergy to return from banishment 414: −− persons opposing the laws for calling out military force, declared civilly dead 414: Special courts may be constituted by governor and council, with same powers as to criminal matters as general court 415,460: Governor & council may discontinue state quarter masters and commissaries, and transfer their powers to continental staff 415: Rules in impressments under this act 416: Executive authorised to fix the value of

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provisions impressed for the use of the army 437: Act empowering executive to lay embargoes repealed 443: −− Executive authorised to fit out a naval force of four gallies 458:
EXPATRIATION.
      Right of, how exercised 129.
FAMILIES.
      Provision for families of poor persons of the militia called into service 225.
FAYETTE COUNTY.
      Formed from Kentucky 315. −− Boundaries 315. Court days 315.
FAYETTE, MARQUIS DE LA
      Resolution to present the Marquis de la Fayette, with a marble bust 569. Inscription 569.
FEES.
      Of inspectors of tobacco 76. Inspection fees 78. Fees of surveyors 126, 230. Of clerk of general court 127. Of register of land office 127, 230. −− Witnesses attending general court 127. Or inferior courts, or upon surveys 127. Witnesses allowance 231. Tobacco fees, how payable in money 232. Fees of marshal of admiralty 232. Fees of inspectors of tobacco rated in tobacco 272. Valuation of tobacco fees by grand jury repealed 489. Tobacco fees to be paid in money at 12s. 6d. per hundred 438. Allowance to sheriffs, venire men and witnesses attending the general court, in criminal cases 489. Fees of inspectors of flour 497.
FENCES.
      Penalty for making a fence across a road 369.
FERRIES.
      New ferries established over Roanoke, Shanandoah, Black Water, and Pagan creek 124. Rates 124. Penalty for exceeding legal rates 125. New ferries over the Rappahannock and Kentucky established 196. Rates 196. Privilege of foot passengers, at Bowie's ferry, at Port Royal abolished 197. Bate's ferry discontinued 365. −− New ferries established, and rates of ferriage 365. Ferry from Black's to Rockett's established 459. Rates 459. −− Penalty for exceeding legal rates 459. Lynch's ferry discontinued, and another established 459.
FIDELITY.
      Form of oath of fidelity 22. −− Oath of governor 22. Of privy councillor 22. Oath of any other 23. Acts imposing treble taxes on those refusing to take the oath of fidelity repealed 194. Such taxes, when and how reimbursed 194.
FINES.
      On officers and soldiers of the militia 83. Serjeant of Williamsburg the same power to distrain as sheriffs 85. Fines on officers and privates, ordered to relief of South Carolina, for various delinquencies 225. For delinquencies

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in recruiting or drafting for the continental army 260. −− Fines on militia encreased 421.
FLAX.
      Flax receivable in taxes, and at what rate 245.
FLEMING, WILLIAM
      Resolution indemnifying col. William Fleming for exercising the executive functions of government while he was the only acting member of council 567.
FLOUR.
      Act to enable governor & council to supply armies and navies of United States with grain and flour further continued 107, 142, 426. Flour receivable in taxes, and at what rate 245. Act for inspection of pork, beef, flour, &c. revived and continued 290. Fees altered 290. Penalties altered 291. treasurer authorised to borrow money, tobacco, hemp or flour 481. Interest at 6 per cent on commodities and 100 for 90 on money 481. Receipts receivable in taxes 482. So much of act of May 1780, ch. 23, as relates to the inspection of flour repealed 496. [======The act here referred to comprised the inspection of pork, beef, flour, tar, pitch & turpentine, under which title the regulations concerning the inspection of flour had always been embraced. The act of November 1781, hereinafter referred to, was the first, in our statute book, which separated the inspection of flour from
that of the above mentioned articles.] Flour before imported shall be inspected 497. Places of inspection 497. −− Fee for inspection 497. How barrels to be made 497. Contents 497. Marks when inspected 497. Certificates to be granted 497. Other places of inspection 497. Inspectors to be appointed 497. Their oath 497. When flour may be inspected at merchant mills 498. Or at landings, if carried by water 498. Flour shipped, uninspected, forfeited to the state 498. How to be prosecuted 498. Flour found to be false packed forfeited to the poor 498. If refused for want of good casks may be repacked in such 498. Inspections of flour, receivable in taxes, where established 509. Directions for appointing inspectors 509. At what places 509.
FLUVANNA.
      Glebe of parish of St. Anne, in Albemarle, to be sold, and money divided between parishes of St. Anne and Fluvanna 112.
FOREIGNERS.
      May assign warrants & certificates of survey for lands 60. Their rights as to land warrants 60. Proceedings in suits where foreigners are parties 203.
FORESTALLING.
      Act to prevent forestalling, regrating, engrossing & public vendues further continued 157, 426.

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FORFEITURES.
      See Escheats.
      British property vested in the commonwealth, the lands, slaves and other real estate by escheat, the personal estate by 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 northern neck by sheriffs 69. British subjects described 69. Property, in particular instance, excepted out of this act 70. Provision for widows, wives & children 71: Mode & rules of proceeding on traverse of office and monstrans de droit 153: All bona fide sales by British subjects valid; collusive sales declared void, how to be detected 154: Injunctions to inquisitions of escheats, 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
made, or had been discussed for the commonwealth, confirmed to the purchasers; saving the rights of all persons to the purchase money 201: Act concerning escheats and forfeitures from British subjects suspended, as to lands, in Henry and Amherst, conveyed by John Harmer to Walter King Cole & George Harmer 300: Money arising from sales of estate of John Meacom, forfeited and paid into the treasury on his conviction and execution for the murder of one of his own slaves, directed to be prepaid to his widow and children 350.
FORGERY.
      Forging or counterfeiting land warrants, death without clergy 65. So as to certain warrants, treasury notes, &c. 93. Having in possession instruments for forging or counterfeiting 94. Proceedings against offenders 95. Persons suspected of having forged or counterfeited notes, how apprehended 96. Forging or counterfeiting certificates punishable with death 185, 191, 236. Forging or counterfeiting paper money 254, 286, 349, 397, 429.
FOX, JOHN
      Certain persons authorised to convey to John Fox, certain entailed lands, sold by trustees, as the estate of Sarah the wife of John Rootes 120.

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