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LAW PROCESS,

Tax on, in district courts 762:

LAWS.

Further provision for completing revisal under the act of 1776, 409: Operation of certain acts of 1786, suspended 410:

LEESBURG.

Trustees of town of, appointed 600:

LEESVILLE,

Town of, in Stafford county establishen 210.

LEVIES.

Power of overseers of the poor to levy 27: How collected and accounted for 28: County courts may exempt from 567.

LEXINGTON.

Part of lot on which court house stands, in town of Lexington, Rockbridge county, may be sold 687.

LEWISBURG.

Further time allowed to improve lots in 686.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

When one of privy council may act 129, 330.

LITERARY WORKS

Copy right, secured to authors 30.

LOTTERIES.

Lotteries authorised for completing church in Winchester, and rebuilding one in Norfolk county 229: For erecting Mason's hall, in Richmond 229: For Cabin point lodge of freemasons 364. Washington Henry academy 406: −− Fredericksburg academy 632

LOUISVILLE.

Further time allowed to improve lots in 372: Certain lands in to be sold 395.

LOVE, WILLIAM

His real estate vested in Marion Love 408.

LUMBER.

Inspectors of, in Norfolk county, Princess Anne and Norfolk borough appointed 388. Inspectors of lumber may be appointed in each county and corporation 499.

LUNATICS.

Estates of idiots and lunatics, how preserved 165. Directors of hospital, how appointed; incorporated; style of corporation 198. Corporate powers; lunatics, how removed; proceedings thereof; if directors differ in opinion from justices 199. Infant lunatics, how proceeded with; when lunatic discharged; legal settlement 200. Directors of hospital, how to hold courts; vacancies how supplied 716.

LYNCHBURG

Town of, in Campbell county, established 398.

MACKEY, ROBERT.

Robert Mackey and John Peyton permitted to build on certain lots in the commons of Winchester 227.

MADISON, JAMES.

James Madison and George Taylor discharged from trust, in relation to lands of Harry Beverley 219. Their accounts, how settled 219.

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MADISON

County, in Kentucky, formed from Lincoln 116. Court day altered 474, 680.

MAGNA CHARTA.

Trial by jury, and equal and speedy justices secured 186.

MAIMING.

Malicious maiming and wounding defined 686.

MANSLAUGHTER.

Act declaring the killing of a slave, by correction, to be manslaughter only; repealed 681.

MARINE HOSPITAL

Established 494.

MARINES.

Further time to settle their pay 278.

MARKS, JOHN.

Lands in Albemarle, liable for taxes during his sheriffalty, how sold 662.

MARRIAGE CONTRACTS.

How to be executed and recorded 154.

MARRIAGES

Incestuous, within certain degrees of consanguinity, prohibited 688. Trial by jury; issue legitimate 689.

MARYLAND.

Compact with, as to navigation, and the exercise of jurisdiction on certain waters, 50, 55:

MASON

County, Kentucky, formed from Bourbon 658:

MATTAPONY:

Act for opening and improving navigation of Mattapony river 698:

MAYO, JOHN:

John Mayo junr: authorised to build a toll bridge over James river 220: Conditions, tolls 221:

MAYO, JOSEPH:

Emancipation of slaves, under his will, confirmed 611:

MAYSVILLE

Town of, in Bourboun county, Kentucky, established 633:

MEAT:

Punishment of those who sell unwholesome meat or drink 336:

MECHANICS

Migrating to this commonwealth, privileges of 262:

MEMORIALS

Of deeds 156:

MERCER

County, formed from Lincoln 116: Court day altered 407.

MERCER, GEORGE AND JAMES:

Certain lands whereof George Mercer died seized vested in James Mercer 365: Special oath as to administration 368:

MERCHANTS:

Tax on retail merchants 286.

MIDDLEBURG

Town, in Loudoun county, established 605:

MILITIA:

Act for amending and reducing into one, the acts regulating the militia 9: Who to be enrolled, and who exempted 10: Organization, and oath of officers 10: Musters, private, and general 11: Arms and

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accoutrements, 12: Duty of officers at musters 13: Returns, enrollment, non-commissioned officers, light companies 14: Stuben's discipline, training by 15: Time for procuring arms, arrests, disobedience, colours and drums 16: Call of militia, into service, staff impressments 17: Field officers, generals, invasions and insurrections, articles of war, pay and rations 18, 19: Patrollers, courts martial 20: Who may arrest, courts martial and of enquiry, how constituted 21: Fines, how collected and accounted for 22. Fines for various delinquences 22, 23: Arms &c. exempted from executions: lost, when paid for, resignation of officers, quakers and menonists 24: Militia to be allotted for regular routine of duty; fines when in actual service 234: List of delinquences how returned; officers failing to qualify considered as resigned; fines on officers; impressment of supplies in case of invasion or insurrection 235: How notice to be given; court martial how constituted; recovery of fines; second lieutenant discontinued ; light companies not completed vacated; captains and subalterns appointed to complete detachments 236. Arms, what kind, how provided and distributed; troop of cavalry for each county 432. Where more than one troop; horses

and ac coutrements; scouts and rangers, how ordered out; exempts, when ordered again for duty 433. Certificates for militia services during the war, no longer to issue 563. Militia on western waters, how armed; and regimental musters substituted for general; further time allowed to complete troops of cavalry 696.

MILLS.

Proceedings on erecting mills; writ of ad quod damnum; notice; jury; inquest what to contain 187. Leave to build; payment of valuation money 188 Effect of not building, or re-building in time 189. −− Inquest no bar to damages not foreseen; toll; who may keep hogs at; locks and slopes 189.

MILLS, JOHN.

Lands of John Mills decd. to be sold for payment of his debts 203.

MISTAKES

On settlement of accounts with commonwealth, how corrected 277.

MOORFIELD.

Further time allowed to improve lots in 214 717.

MOORMAN, CHARLES.

Emancipation of slaves, under his will, confirmed 613.

MONONGALIA.

Certain taxes due in Monongalia, how collected 387.

MONSTRANS DE DROIT

To inquisitions of escheat 159.

MONTGOMERY

Court day altered 407, 474. −− Kanawha formed out of

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Greenbrier and Montgomery 670.

MORGANS-TOWN

In Monongalia, established 212.

MOTIONS

In district courts 736.

MULATTOES

Who deemed 184.

MUTINY

On board vessels, how suppressed 168.

NALL, WILLIAM

Authorised to collect certain taxes of Rockinham 82.

NANSEMOND.

Part of Nansemond county added to Southampton 69. −− Lands of Nansemond tribe of Indians sold to William Bennett 386.

NATURALIZATION.

See citizens.

NAVAL OFFICERS.

See duties.
Placed on civil list; salaries 319. Naval officers and collection of duties, various regulations concerning 438 to 452. Naval officers discontinued 779.

NEW MARKET

Town, in Mercer county, Kentucky, established 400.

NEWPORT

Town of, in Prince William county, established 603.

NEW TRIALS.

How many may be granted 749.

NON-SUIT

How suffered 749.

NORFOLK.

Right of suffrage in 121. Lottery authorised for rebuilding a church in Norfolk county 228.

Court of, to let ferries across Elizabeth river 512. −− Charter of borough of, amended 609. Proof of destruction of property in 1776, how obtained 634. Not affected by act regulating rights of cities &c. 775.

NORTH WESTERN TERRITORY.

Cession of, modified 780.

NORTHERN NECK.

Land papers in, to be removed to register's office, who to be keeper 111. Authenticated copies, by him, evidence, grants on surveys, how obtained; unappropriated lands, acquired as other lands 112. Composition money; inhabitants discharged from composition and quit rents 113. Escheators to be appointed in 117. Time allowed for surveying entries in 238. −− Composition money; inhabitants discharged from composition and quit rents 113. Escheators to be appointed in 117. Time allowed for surveying entries in 238. −− Composition money; inhabitants discharged from composition and quit rents 113. Escheators to be appointed in 117. Time allowed for surveying entries in 238. −− Composition in what payable; grants on surveys returned to proprietor's office, how obtained; pre-emption in swamps, marshes and sunken grounds 239. Caveats entered in, how proceeded in 240. Patents to issue on surveys made by Richard Rigg 532.

NOTICES

What deemed good 751.

NOTTOWAY.

Trustees of Nottoway parish, in Amelia, authorised to sell their glebe 720. Nottoway county formed from Amelia 723.

OFFICE JUDGMENTS

When set aside, in county courts 35, 472.

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In the district courts 742, 746.

OFFICERS.

Further time, to settle their pay 278. Full pay to certain officers 279.

OFFICES.

Disqualification of officers, under the federal government, to hold under this commonwealth 694.

ORANGE.

Court day altered 407.

ORDINARIES

See Taverns.

ORPHANS

Bound apprentices 197 when by overseers of the poor 274: −− Of officers dying in service; half pay to 279.

OVERSEERS

Of the poor, See Poor & pa. 27.

OWEN, JOHN

Lands sold for taxes, by John Owen, sheriff of Pittsylvania, how conveyed 360.

PAMUNKEY.

Trustees for Pamunkey tribe of Indians appointed 406.

PAPER MONEY.

Act for calling in, revived 329: Provision for redemption of, funded agreeable to recommendation of congress 569.

PARDON.

Criminals, conditionally pardoned, by executive, in certain cases 45.

PARISHES.

See Glebes.
Trustees of religious societies, authorised to collect balances due to parishes 713.

PARTITIONS.

Between joint tenants and tenants in common 349. Writs of 350. Judgment by default; how opened; judgment in; tenure not altered by judgment 351.

PATENTS.

Tax on repealed 115.

PATTONSBURG,

Town of, in Botetourt, established 673.

PAUPERS,

Suits by, how prosecuted 357.

PAY.

Further time allowed officers, soldiers, sailors and marines, to settle their pay and depreciation 278. Full pay to certain officers and half pay to widows and orphans 279.

PENDLETON

County, formed out of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham 637 Court of quarter sessions for 474, 680.

PENSIONERS.

Auditors to make out lists of; what to specify; degree of disability to entitle to, rate of 103: Power of executive to admit on pension list; lists to be transmitted annually by auditors to county courts; pensioners there identified 104. Pension certificates to be countersigned by governor; executive may admit widows and orphans; pensioners to undergo examination, and allowance encreased or diminished 105. What chargeable to United States 105. Lists

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annually to be transmitted by auditors to county courts; how paid 276.

PERISHABLE ESTATE,

Sale of, by executors and administrators 150.

PERMITS.

See Duties.

PERPETUITY,

Words of, unnecessary 157.

PERSONAL ESTATE,

Sale of, by executors and administrators 150.

PETERSBURG

Charter amended 621.

PETITION OF RIGHT

To inquisitions of escheat 159.

PETITION & SUMMONS.

For small debts 353.

PEYTON, JOHN

John Peyton and Robert Mackey permitted to build on certain lots in the commons of Winchester 227.

PHYSICIANS.

Taxes imposed on 285.

PILOTS.

Examiners of, appointed, who may grant branches; what boats to keep; penalty for acting without a branch 299. −− Not to extend to vessels in distress; how many may be in partnership; first pilot offering, to be taken; their duties; penalty for negligently losing a vessel; rates of pilotage 300 Pilots to exhibit copy of the law; payment of pilotage how enforced; exempted from militia duty 302. Pilotage between Urbanna and Tappahannock encreased 629.

PIRACY.

Premium for defending vessels against pirates and enemies 167.

PLEAS

In abatement; several pleas 745.

POAGE, THOMAS

Right of commonwealth to a lot of land in Staunton, vested in 601.

POINT OF COMFORT.

Public lands at, not to be sold 97.

POLL-TAX

Repealed 431.

POOR.

Overseers of, when and how elected, their powers 27. −− Monthly returns of poor orphans, annual returns of poor; levies, how collected and accounted for 28. Power as to bastards, to call on church wardens for a settlement, to pay parochial debts, to apprehend vagrants, and succeed to duties of vestries, as to processioning 29. Election of overseers 272. Vacancies how supplied; levy when paid; duty of overseers to provide for poor 273. Settlement; orphans how bound out; and what covenants in indenture 274. Overseers to call on churchwardens for settlement 275. Districts for electing overseers limits; meeting of overseers 573. −− Their duties; collectors of poor-rates 574. Deputy collectors; liabilities; overseers to settle with their predecessors;

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power to pay parish debts 575. Proceedings, how entered; how to vote; adjournment; allowance to overseers 576. Penalty for refusing to serve; vacancies how supplied; vagrants how dealt with; power of corporations, to provide for poor 577. Right of voting 578. Removal of vagrants; who deemed vagrants; keepers of gaming tables 579. Acts concerning amended 712. Sheriffs bound to collect poor rates 713.

POOR RATES.

County courts may exempt from payment of 567. Collectors of, how appointed, their power and duty 574, 575. Sheriffs bound to collect 713.

POPULAR ACTIONS.

Collusive, no bar 354.

PORTS.

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

POSEY, JOHN PRICE.

Escheat and forfeiture of his estate, who was convicted of arson, released 692.

POTOWMACK RIVER.

General Washington's letter, declining donation of shares in Potowmack company 43. −− How such shares to be appropriated 44. duty of owners of mills, on south branch, as to slopes and canals 60, 362. Company authorised to reduce size of canal 69. Further

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

PRACTICE

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

PRE-EMPTION.

See lands.

PRESENTMENTS.

Proceedings on 344. In district courts 758.

PRESIDENT

Of United States, electors of, chosen by districts 648.

PRESUMPTION

Of death, when 357.

PRETENSED TITLES

Penalty for conveying or taking 335.

PRIVILEGE

Of electors 122. Of member of assembly 127.

PRIVY COUNCIL.

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

PROCESS.

See writs.
Form of, in district courts; teste of 738. Not returned 744. −− Not directed, good 750.

PROCESSIONING.

Power of vestries transferred to overseers of poor 29.

PROCLAMATION.

Process after return of pluries 746.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Act incorporating protestant episcopal church repealed 266. Each religious society secured in its property and authorised to regulate its own discipline 267.

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Trustees of, succeed to vestries, as to property 705.

PUBLIC BOARDS.

Reform of offices of auditors, solicitor, treasurer, commissioners &c. 106.

PUBLIC DEBTORS.

See sheriffs.
Lands of sheriffs &c. how taken and sold 559. Mode of selling lands for payment of taxes 564.

PUBLIC JAIL.

Judges of general court to su-intend 113.

PUBLIC LANDS.

See lands.

QUIT-RENTS.

Inhabitants of Northern neck discharged from 113.

RANDOLPH

County, formed from Harrison 393. Randolph academy established and incorporated 638. Surveyors' fees payable to 341. Additional trustees 661.

RANGERS.

Appropriation for 645.

RECORDS

Destroyed, how reinstated; fees of clerks; commissioners to be appointed by executive 498: Making up 751.

REGISTERS

Of vessels 313.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

Act establishing religious freedom 84: Each religious society secured in 84.

RELIGIOUS WORSHIP,

Disturbers of, how punished 336

REMAINDERS

Limitation of 157.

RENTS.

Appintment of rents and hires 151.

REPLEVY BONDS.

See Executions.
Executed in clerk's offices; quashed 751.

REPRESENTATIVES

To congress, under the new constitution, how chosen 653. −− City of Richmond, allowed a representative in house of delegates 722.

REVENUE.

See Taxes.
Appropriation of revenue 55, 323, &c. 417, 781: Laws of revenue amended 412 to 432.

REVISAL

Of laws, under the act of 1776, further provision for completing 409. Powers of revisors 410.

RICHESON, HOLT

Authorised to collect taxes of King William 774.

RICHMOND.

Lottery authorised for erecting Mason's Hall, in city of Richmond 229. Court day of hustings altered 407: City of Richmond allowed a representative in the house of delegates 722.

RIGG, RICHARD

Patents to issue on surveys made by, in Northern neck 532.

RIOTS, ROUTS, AND UNLAWFUL
ASSEMBLIES.

How suppressed 331, 332.

ROADS.

Taxes of Greenbrier appropriated

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to opening a road from Lewisburg to lower falls of Great Kanawha 72. Provision for keeping in repair, the roads from the north-western parts of the state to Alexandria and Colchester 75: −− County courts authorised to open new roads, or alter former ones; proceedings thereon 174: To divide roads into precincts, and appoint surveyors 175: Who to work on roads; penalty for failure; surveyors how notified; duty of surveyors; sign posts; bridges and causeys 176: Materials for, how procured; penalty on surveyors for neglect; how bridges and causeys built and repaired within the county 177: When over any place between two counties 178: Penalty for felling a tree into, or killing one near, a road; or making a fence across; roads over mills dams how made 179: Commissioners to receive subscriptions for opening a road from falls of Great Kanawha to Lexington in Kentucky 282: Act amended 725: Courts of Loudoun and Fauquier authorised to keep in repair, the roads from Ashby's gap to Alexandria 294. Act amended 522: Taxes of Harrison county appropriated to opening a road, from the state road to the mouth of the Little Kanawha 295: Act amended 513: Provision for opening a road from Morgan town, to the

mouth of Fishing creek, on the Ohio 297: Provision for opening and straightening road from Chester's gap to Richmond; from Vestall's and Snicker's gaps to Alexandria; and from Fredericksburg to Richmond 375. Act amended 522, 729: Further taxes appropriated to road, from state road to mouth of Little Kanawha 669.

ROCKBRIDGE.

Part of Rockbridge county added to Botetourt 74.

ROCKINGHAM.

William Nall authorised to collect certain taxes of Rockingham 82: Pendleton county formed out of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham 637

ROUTS.

See Riots, &c.

ROYAL ASSENT.

Evidence of royal assent to acts of assembly, how supplied 501.

RULES

To be held in clerks office in county courts 35, 469. In the district courts 744.

RUNAWAYS.

Servants and slaves, how apprehended and dealt with 192.