RESCOUS.
Damages for, 10.
RESIGNATION.
Penalty on officers for, to avoid
a call into actual service 548.
RETALIATION.
On Indians, for their cruelties
and murders 550. Reward
for scalps 551. Friendly In-
dians entitled to the reward
565. How to be obtained 565.
REWARDS.
For making tar and hemp, 144.
For killing of wolves 152.
To Col. George Washington.
and others, for their gallant
conduct, in the late engage-
ment, on the Monongahela,
528. For Indian prisoners,
551, For Indian scalps 551.
Trustees of town of, appointed,
281. Fairs continued in 300.
RIVERS AND CREEKS.
County courts may contract for
clearing, 69. Exceptions, 70.
Penalty for setting weirs, or
felling trees in 70. Or hedges,
or stone stops 70. Exceptions
71. Act for clearing Appo-
mattox and Pamunkey 291.
So, as to Mattapony, 394.
How established, width of, and
how cleared 64. Jurisdiction
of county courts 65. Where
a road is necessary from one
county to another 65. Survey-
ors, or overseers of, how ap-
pointed 65. Their duties, and
penalty for neglect 66. How
bridges shall be erected and
kept 66. Contracts of coun-
ty courts obligatory on their
67.
Width of
mill-dams, over which a road
passes 67. Bridges and pas-
sages over, to be railed in 68.
Sign posts to be erected 68.
Penalty for neglect, or for
defacing, 68. To and from
iron-works 137. Persons
employed at iron works, ex-
empted from working on 137.
RULES.
pleadings, in the general
RUM.
Additional duty on, and other
distilled spirits, not the pro
duce of the British sugar is-
lands 471.
RUNAWAYS.
Fèrriages of, how paid 22. Sea-
inen 24. Rewards for taking
up 363. Proceedings on, 363.
Constable's duty 363. Not)
telling owner, to be commit-
ted 364. Proceedings, on com-
mitment 364. Property, how
proved 365. Where no own-
er appears, 366. Where run-
away has crossed the bay,
366. Where they are from
Maryland, or N. Carolina,
366. Officers may impress
assistants, 367. Prison fees,
367. Servants to repay all
losses, 367.
Parish, formed from Cumber-
land, in Lunenburg county,
582. New modelled, 442.
ST. ANDREW.
Parish of divided, and Meher-
for suffering escapes 25. And
for harbouring 25. On sea-
men absenting themselves,
without leave 25. On masters
of vessels, employing them,
without certificates, 25. Sea-
men travelling without, may
be taken up, 26. Disobedient,
how punished, 26. Mutiny,
26. Duty of commanders, to
seamen 27. Complaints of,
how redressed, 27. For beat-
ing, wounding, &c. 27. Dis-
charging sick or disabled 27.
Certificates to be given those
discharged, 28. Saving admi-
ralty jurisdiction 28. Exemp-
ted, as tithables, 43.
rin formed, 386. Vestry of For tobacco, illegally shipped,
dissolved and a new one elec-
ted, 502.
ST. MARK.
Parish of, in Culpeper, divided,
and Bromfield parish formed
from that and part of St.
Thomas, 256.
ST. PATRICK.
Parish of formed from Notto-
way, 504.
ST. THOMAS,
Parish of in Culpeper, new mo-
delled, and Bromfield parish
formed from that and St.
Mark, 256.
Of Indians, reward for 551.
How the reward to be obtain-
ed, 551. Reward extended
to friendly Indians 565. Re-
ward to cease, on governor's
proclamation of cessation of
hostilities, 565.
SEAMEN.
Deserting, how apprehended
24. Reward for 24. Penalty
50. Penalty for resisting 50,
SECONDS.
Of tobacco, penalty for tending
51. Duty of constables and
courts, in relation thereto 51,
52.
SECRETARY.
His duty, in granting passes,
to leave the colony 46, 47.
Of the colony authorised to
sell certain lands attached to
his office, 510.
SERMON.
Funeral, fee for 84.
SERVANTS.
Penalty for marrying each
other, or a free person to a
servant, 83, 84. How pun-
ishable for hogstealing, 122.
Rules as to, imported without
indentures, 356. Duty of mas-
ters to 357. Justices shall re-
ceive complaints of 358. Pro-
ceedings thereon 358. Con-
tracts between and master
void 358. To have property of
their effects 359. Sick or dis-
abled not to be discharged,
359. Freedom dues 359. Who
may not have 359. Penalty for
dealing with, or a slave, 359.
Duty of servants 360. Pun-
ishment for resistance 360.
For violating penal laws 360.
Where women servants, have
bastards 360. No white to
intermarry with a black 361.
Penalty on minister 362.
Servants, when free to have
a certificate 362. Penalty on
harbouring 362. Stolen or
forged certificate, punishment
for, 362. And on forgery,
362. Runaways, proceedings
against 363. Remedy against
servants, ignorant of their
trade, or occupation 368. Or
where they refuse to work,
368.
SETTLEMENT.
What a legal settlement of the
poor, 31. How sent to their
own parish, 31.
SHEEP.
Act for preservation of 295.
Negroes not to carry dogs,
295. Sheep-killing dogs may
be destroyed, 295, 489. Act
for preservation of, revived
488. To what counties to ex-
tend 488. Number of dogs, to
a negro quarter limited 489.
Exception489. Trespasses by
unruly, penalty on owner,38.
SHERIFFS.
Duty of, in suppressing unlaw-
ful assemblies of slaves 109.
Their duty and fees, in rela-
tion to cattle seized 125, 172.
When and how to collect and
account for public dues and
fees 174. To give bond for
collection of public levies or
taxes 247. Process against
530. Liability, and remedy
of, in case of bail 331, 332.
Penalty on, for neglect of
duty, 344. For not paying
money received, on execu-
tions, 344. Liable for escapes
345. Additional bonds to be
given, by 482. Forms of 482,
483. How prosecuted 483.
Summary remedy against,
for quit-rents collected 552.
Remedy against, for failing
to give security, for collec-
tions of Poll-tax and Land-
tax, 566. Collectors to be ap-
pointed 567.
SHINGLES.
Dimensions of, for exportation,
SIGN-POSTS.
At the forks of roads, how to
be erected, 68. Penalty for
failure, 68.
SINGLE MEN.
Subject to be drafted, 465, 527.
SKELTON, REUBEN
Certain intailed lands, vested
in 300.
SLAVES.
Conspiracy of, to rebel and
murder, felony without cler-
gy 104, 105.
Or to prepare
or administer medicine 105.
When clergy may be allowed
105. Where medicines may
be administered 105. Trial
of slaves 105. Court must
be unanimous, to convict 106.
Period between judgment and
exection 106. Rules in allow-
ing benefit of clergy 106.
Punishment for false testimo-
mony 106. Charge to witness
107. Slaves on trial, how de-
fended 107. Value of, con- SMITH, LAWRENCE
demned and executed, paid
by the public 107. In what
cases witnesses 107.
Not
permitted to remain on other's
plantation 108. Exception
108. Punishment of persons
present at unlawful meetings
108. Duty of sheriffs and
constables in suppressing 109.
Going abroad without a pass
109. Arms &c. in custody
of, may be seized 109. Ex-
ception 110. Lifting hand
against a free white person
110. Outlaws, may be killed
110, 111. Killing of, when
dispunishable 111. Incorri-
gible, may be dismembered
111. Remedy of owner agai st
negligent surgeon 111. et
free, without license, from
governor and council may be
sold 112. How punish d for
hog stealing 122. Duty on.
revived, 217. How collete.
and accounted for 218, 221.
Not to carry dogs with them.
295. Exception 295. Act
laying duty on, continued 353.
Who shall be slaves 356. Pe-
nalty for selling free persons
Intail of certain lands, in Glou-
cester, whereof Lawrence
Smith is seized, docked 407.
SOLDIERS.
Raised, by impressment, for
French war, 438. Who ex-
empted 439. Their pay 439.
Rangers to be enlisted, or
drafted, from single men 465,
527. Encouragement, to en-
list 525. Invalids, how provi-
ded for 527. Rewards, for
gallant conduct, in late en-
gagement, on the Mononga-
heia 528. Fines on, for va-
Pious offences, in case of in-
vasion or insurrection 545,
546. In actual service, sub-
ject to martial law 546. Pun-
ishment for desertion, or mɑ-
tiny 546. For disobeying or-
ders, at a battery, 549.
SOUTH FARNHA M.
Vestry of, in Essex, authorised
to sll their glebe 388.
SOUTHAMPTON.
Certain lands of which Eliza-
beth Exum is seized, vested
in justices of, 283.
SPECIAL BAIL.
as slaves 357. What no dis-Recognizance of, how taken
charge from slavery 357.
Children bond or free, accor-
ding to condition of mother,
$57. Penalty for dealing
with 359. No white to inter-
marry with black &c. 361.
Felony to steal 369. Addi-
tional duty on, 466.
SMITH, ARTHUR
Intail of certain lands of which
he is seized, docked 308.
SMITHFIELD.
333. When liable $33. When
not required 333.
SPECIAL VERDICT.
in general court, when to be
argued 336.
STAFFORD.
Justices of, authorised to levy
for Nathaniel Harrison and
Hugh Adie, the value of their
work, in building a court-
house which was burnt 280.
STAVES.
Town of, in isle of Wight coun- Dimensions of, for exportation,
STEPHEN, ADAM
Captain, reward to, for his gal-
lant conduct, in the late en-
gagement, on the Mononga
hela 528.
STEWART, ROBERT
Captain, reward to. for his gal-
lant conduct, in the late en
gagement, on the Mononga-
hela 528.
STEWART, WALTER
Lieutenant, reward to, for his
gallant conduct, in the late
engagement, on the Monoa-
gahela 528.
STERLING.
Judgments for, to be discharg
ed at such difference of ex-
change, as the court shall di-
rect 479. How, and when
sterling money may be de-
clared for 479. Currency,
paid for bills, to be expressed
479. Penalty for neglect
480.
STOREHOUSES.
Public, how established, and
price of storage 60-64.
STRAYS.
Proceedings, on taking up, 133.
Reward 133. Penalty for
using, and failing to adver-
tise 133. Where no owner ap-
pears 134. Where the value
exceeds twenty shillings 134.
Printer's fee 134. Taker up
not liable for death or loss
134. Who may not take up,
SUMMARY REMEDY.
Against sheriffs, for quit-rents
collected, by them 552.
SUPERSEDEAS.
Rules in issuing 330, 340.
County divided, and Sussex
formed 384. Boundaries 384.
Court days 384.
Of land, and their assistants to
g ve bond 33. And be sworn
Consequence of failure
33. Rules, in entries for land,
33. Penalty, for failure of
duty 34. How a surveyor
may enter for himself 34.
Rules in special cases 34.
Assistant surveyor not to
make entries 35. Where sur-
veyors shall reside 35. Pen-
alty for neglect 35. Duty in
making surveys and plats
35. Surveyors book to be in-
spected 36. And preserved
among the rec rds, on his
death or removal 36. Chain
carriers to be sworn, 36. No-
tice of surveying 36. Conse-
quence of not attending 36.
Surveyor not to deliver a plat
but to the owner 37. Excep-
*tions 37. Securities for fees
void, 37. Penalties how re-
coverable 37. Of highways,
or roads, how appointed 65.
Their duties 65, 66.
SUSSEX.
County, formed from Surry 384.
Boundaries 384. Court days
Intail of certain lands, in Nan-
SWANN, THOMPSON
semond, docked, and vested
in 446.
SYM, BENJAMIN
Certain lands devised by, for a
free school, vested in justices
&c. of Elizabeth city 389.
TAR.
Encouragement for making 144,
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