Edward Montague, Esq. ap- pointed agent in Great Bri- tain 276. Committee of cor- respondence and their duty 276. A majority to act 276. Salary of agent 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 re- fund to Amherst and Buck- ingham their proportion for weights and measures, before the division 625.
ALEXANDRIA. Town of, enlarged 604. Li- mits 605. Privileges of own- ers of marsh lots 606. AMHERST.
County, formed from Albe- marle 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 di- vided between that parish and Tillotson and Amherst 422. Justices of Albemarle to refund to Amberst and Buckingham, their propor- tion for weights and mea- sures before the division 625. ANTRIM. Vestry of Antrim parish in Halifax dissolved 301. Au-
thorised to sell their glebe 438 APPOMATTOX. Owners of mills on Appomat- tox 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 ex- empts 94. Time allowed to provide them 99. Privileged from executions 100. Pe- nalty for embezzling 113.
Provision for recruiting to pro- secute French and Indian war 11. New recruits to compose Royal American Re- giment 61. To be augment- ed by drafts 69. Mode of drafting 70-75. Forces aug- mented 163. Bounties 164. How forces disposed of 164. Rangers 164. Friendly In- dians, 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 Act repealed 241.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 Du- Quense 252. Regiment in pay of the colony to be com- pleted 255. Additional for- ces 256-357-495. Forces fur- ther continued in service 331-
347-464-495. Old regiment completed and continued 370, 381, 464. Officers of Virgi- nia 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 ar- tificers 279.
ARTS. Act for encouraging arts and manufactures 288., Amend- ed 563. Trustees appointed 288. Their duty 289. No- tice of premiums 289. Max- imum of premium 289. Use- ful discoveries how notified 289. Premiums, how paid 290. Subscriptions, how rais- ed 290. Premiums 567. Sub- scribers names 568.
ASSEMBLY. Act for better regulating elec- tion of members of &c. 518. An assembly to be held once in three years 518, writs to be issued, when 518. Free- holders qualified to vote 518. Number of members for each county 518. James Ci- ty 518. Qualification of vo- ters 518. Joint-tenants and tenants in common 519.— Further qualifications 519. Who deprived of the privi- lege of voting 519. Penalty for voting, not being quali- fied 519. Onus probandi on whom 520. Mode of elec- tion 520. Penalties 520.- Freeholders, under a penalty
to appear and vote 524. She- riffs duty in taking the poll 521. His power to adjourn 521. Votes equal, who de- clared 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 mem- ber 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, prepa-
fees 125. Examiners of, how appointed 397. Method of obtaining license 397. Attor- ney's oath 398. Who incapa- ble of obtaining license 398. Where an attorney misbe- haves 399. Barrister, privi- leges of 399. Power of coun- ty courts over attorneys 399. Where attorneys are negli- gent &c. 399. Attorneys not to practise both in the general and county courts 399. But may fin- ish their causes, in the coun- ty courts 400. But two law- yers of a side 400. Fees of attornies 400. Lawyers not to receive more than legal fees 401.
AUGUSTA. Court day of, altered 310. BAIL.
ratory to meeting of Assem-In actions founded on the acts
bly 528. Persons exempted from being members 529.- Sheriff and Inspectors of to- bacco ineligible 529. No member to accept an office of profit 529. City of Williams-To burg, 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
concerning seamen and for regulating the unloading of ballast &c. special bail may be required 394.
BAIL-PIECE. be delivered to bail 405.- Form of 405.
BALLAST. In actions founded on the act regulating the unloading bal- last and special bail may be required $94.
BANKRUPT. Act for relief of insolvent deb- tors, on the principles of the bankrupt law 549-563. Act repealed at the next sesssion 643.
BANKS, TUNSTALL. Intail of certain lands whereof Tunstall Banks is seized, docked 293.
Court day of, altered 415. BEEF.
Act for inspection of, revived and amended 40. Inspectors, how appointed 570. Their duties 571. Contents of bar- rel 572. Abatement allowed 573. Appeal 573. Oath re- quired of seller or exporter 574. Duty of Coopers 574. BENNETT, RICHARD. Donation of land, by Richard Bennett and Thomas Tilley to lower parish of Nanse- mond, 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 sup- plied 609. Forfeiture for not improving lots 610.
BOATS. Adrift, how to be proceeded with 548.
For men to enlist 164, 257,
358. Governor Dinwiddie's proclamation of 1754 offer- ing a bounty in lands, on the Ohio 661. Proclamation of 1763. Land bounties to offi- cers and soldiers 666. Quan- tity to each 666. To officers of the navy 666.
BUCKINGHAM. County, formed from Albemarle 419. Boundaries 420. Court days 420. Justices of Albe- marle to refund to Amherst and Buckingham their pro- portion for weights and mea- sures, before the division 625.
BURGESSES.
See Assembly. Wages, rate of 56. Payable in tobacco 57. Converted into money 57. Payable in mo- ney 66, 135, 249, 322, 342, 355, 439, 476, 493, 504, 596, 658. Payable by the respec- tive counties, in tobacco 365. Act for better regulating e- lection of 517. Amount of wages of members 527.- When payable in money 528. Wages upon an adjournment
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 Ches- terfield not compellable to join those of Dinwiddie, in building a bridge over Ap- pomattox 308. Bridge over north branch of James Ri- ver, to be erected 622. So, over Nottoway river in Southampton.
A piece of land belonging to
Bristol parish before the di- vision, and now in parish of Dale, in Chesterfield to be sold and money divided 143. Bounds between parishes of Martin's Brandon and Bris- tol, settled 613.
BRUNSWICK.
Court day of, altered $10. BRUTON.
Vestry of Bruton parish au- thorised to sell certain lots in Williamsburg 607.
CAMERON. Vestry of Cameron parish in Loudoun dissolved 301. Part of Parish of, added to Truro 612.
Part of King and Queen coun- ty added to Caroline 620. CARRIAGES. Provision for collecting taxes 262. Grand juries to pre- sent those who 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, esta- blished 597.
CHESTERFIELD. Court day of, altered 656.
CHRIST CHURCH. Vestry of Christ-Church pa- Irish in Lancaster dissolved 301.
CHURCHILL, ARMIS-
TEAD. Authorized to sell certain en- tailed 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 du- ty 268, 269. How appoint- ed 272. When to account 273. Of duties on skins and furs, how appointed 284. Salary, duty, fees &c. 284. 285. How collectors may ex- port their own skins & furs 285.
Grant of money, by parlia-
ment, to southern colonies, to aid in French and Indian war 371, 372.
COMMISSARIES To be appointed 30. Their du- ty 31.
COMMISSIONERS To settle military accounts 349, 359, 501. In the coun- try empowered to take spe- cial bail on suits in the ge- neral 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 re- lief of south western parts of the colony, in distress $12.
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