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surrection, paid as public ex-
presses, 117.

MILITIA.

117.

County courts may contract for
ferriage of 20. Power of go-
vernor to call out in cases of
invasion or insurrection, 113.
Duty of officers, 113. Penal-
ty for neglect, 114. On sol
diers failing to appear arm-
ed, 114. Impressments, how
conducted, 114,115. Look-
outs appointed, 115. Pay of
officers and privates, 116.
Must furnish their own arms,
&c. 116. Messengers, how
paid, 117. Artificers pay,
117. Watermen, 117. Ves-
sels, carriages, &c.
Guards, 117. Public arms,
when furnished, 118. Act for
better regulating amended,
421. Patrollers appointed,
421. Their duty, 421. Their
ailowance, 422. Penalty on
officer not appointing, 422.
Single men subject to be
drafted, 527. Act further re-
gulating and training, 550.
Who to be enrolled, 531. Who
exempted, 531. How to be
armed and accoutred, 531.
Exempts to furnish arms, 532.
Mulattoes, negroes, and In
dians, how employed, 533.
Misbehaviour, 554. Courts
martial, 534. Fines for va-
rious delinquencies, 535. Of-
ficers, how to be armed at
musters, 537. Time allowed
to provide such arms, by of-
ficers, 537. By soldiers, 538.
Arms exempted from execu
tion, or distress, 538. No ex-
empted overseer or miller to
appear at musters, 538. Fines

incurred by infants and ser-
vants how to be paid, 539.
Sheriff to collect fines asses-
sed by courts martial, 559.
Remedy against sheriff, 539.
Commissioned officers to take
certain oaths, 540. Penalty
for failure, 540. Present offi-
cers to act until others be ap-
pointed by the governor, 541.
Appropriation of fines, 541.
Fines for failing to attend
courts martial, 541. Adjutant
general exempted from pay-
ment of ferriages, 541. Mili-
tia of Williamsburg and Nor-
folk, not compellable to mus-
ter out of the city or borough,
541. Courts martial to be
held therein, 542. What offi-
cers exempted from serv-
ing, 542. Patrollers, how
Their du-
appointed, 542.
ty, 542. Their compensa-
tion, 543. Penalty on officers
failing to appoint patrollers,
543. On patrollers failing to
do their duty, 54s. Patrol in
Williamsburg and Norfolk,
543. General issue, pleadable,
and special matter may be
given in evidence, in prosecu-
tions against patrollers, 544.
Costs, how recoverable, 544.
Officers to reside in their
counties, 530. Duty of offi-
cers of, on invasion or insur-
rection. 54. Officer receiv-
ing notice of, to give infor-
mation to county lieutenant,
544. And immediately to op-
pose the enemy, until further
orders, 545. Fines for neglect,
545. Punishment for mutiny
and desertion, 546. All offi-
cers and soldiers in actual

service, liable to penalties,
imposed on militia, 546.
Courts martial, how consti-
tuted, 547. Oath of officers,
547. Of clerk, 547. Punish-
ment for disobedience, pro-
phane swearing, or drunken-
ness, 547,548. Limitation of
punishment, 548. Protection
of, if sued, 548. Militia not
liable to be marched more
than five miles beyond the
frontiers, 548. Officers of,
not permitted to resign, on a
call of 548. Pay of cavalry
and infantry, 549. Pay of
smiths, wheel wrights, car-
penters, and other artificers,
549. For waggons, boats,
&c. 549. Fines on soldiers
disobeying orders at batte-
ries, 550. Act providing a-
gainst invasions and insur-
rections to be published at
every general muster, 550.

MILL-DAMS.
Must be twelve feet wide at the
top, 67.

MILLS.
Method of proceeding, on peti-
tion for an acre of land, 55.
Condition of holding such
acre, 56. Party injured may
sue for damages, 56. Saving
to persons under legal disa-
bilities, 56. Provision, in
special cases, where entailed
land had been sold, 57. Burnt
or destroyed, must be rebuilt
within three years, 58. No
mill to be built without leave
of court, 58. Exceptions, 58.
Miller's duty and toll, 58.
Penalty, 59. Where a servant
or slave is miller, 59. Privi-
lege of owners, 59. Sealed

measures to be kept at 59.
Who may not keep hogs at,
59. Width of mill dam, over
which a road passes, 67.
MINISTERS.

Their duties, in relation to
marriages, 81,82. Marriage
fees, 84. Fee for a funeral
sermon, 84. Salary of, 88.
How paid, 88. Provision for
vacant parishes, 88. Duty of,
in relation to repairs, 90.
Their rights, 90. Commuta-
tion of salaries of, in Freder-
ick, Hampshire, and Augus-
ta, 369.

MISSISSIPPI.
Encouragement to settlers, on
the waters of, then in the
county of Augusta, 258. Fur-
ther encouragement,
Further encouragement and
protection of. against French
and Indians, 417.
MONEY.

355.

Burgesses wages payable in,
251, 273, 422, 432, 497, 570.
Tobacco debts payable in,

568.

MONONGAHELA.
Gallant conduct of officers and
privates, in the late engage-
ment on, recited and reward-
ed, 527,528.

To

MULATTOES.
appear at musters, without
arms, 533. In what manner
they may be employed, 533.
MUSTERS.
Persons employed at iron works
exempted from 158. General,
when to be, 533. Punishment
for disobedience, or misbeha-
viour at a general or private
muster, 533. Delinquents at,
how returned, 554.

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pellable to muster out of the borough, 541. Courts martial to be held for, 542. Patrollers in, how appointed, 543.

NORTHERN NECK. Grants of land from the crown, in certain parts of, confirmed, but rents and services enure to Lord Fairfax, 198,199. NOTES. Actions of debt may be obtained on, 86.

NANSEMOND. Vestry of upper parish of Nansemond authorized to seli certain lands devised by Wil liam Cadowgan, 266. Further provision for sufferers. in loss of records of county court of 507. Vestry of upper parish of dissolved, 518. Of surveying, must be given, 36. NAVAL OFFICERS.

NOTICE.

NOTTOWAY.

Their duties and fees, 96. Pe-Vestry of parish of, in county

nalty for exceeding, 97.

NEGROES.

Free, to appear at musters, without arms, 533. In what manner they may be employed, 533.

NEW, JOHN Agreement between, and Benjamin Harrison, concerning certain lands, confirmed, 303.

NON EST FACTUM. How to be pleaded, 336.

NON EST INVENTUS. Proceedings on return of, 334. NON-SUIT.

Costs on, 335.

NORFOLK. Charter of, explained, and privileges of inhabitants enlarged, 261. Right of suffrage, 261. How exercised, 262,263. Bounds, how ascertained, 263. Court of Hustings to have sole power of granting ordinary licenses, 263. Court house and prison, how to be erected, 264. Inhabitants of Norfolk county authorized to pay their public dues in money, 502. Militia of, not com

of Amelia dissolved, and new one to be elected, 272. Indians, titles of lands, purchased of, confirmed, 284. Penalty for taking their blankets, guns, &c. 286. Parish of divided, and St. Patrick formed, 504.

OATHS.
Of chain carriers, 3. Of attor-
nies, 141. Of wolf killer,
152. Of inspectors of tobac-
co, 161. Of inspectors of lum-
ber, 234. Of judges of the
general court, 326,327. Of
officers of the militia, 540.
Of courts martial, 547,561.
Of clerks of court martial,
547,561.

OBLIGATIONS.
For surveyors fees, void, 37.
Or tavern debts for drink
sold, 14.

OFFICERS.
Rewards to, for their gallant

conduct, in the engagement
on the Monongahela, 528.
Officers of the militia, how to
be armed, 537. Oaths of, 540.
Present officers to act, till

otherwise directed by the go- lawry, in civil actions, 334. vernor, 540. Duty of, on in

OVERSEERS.

mare, if licensed by the employer, 119. Liable for tobacco refused, 166.

OYER AND TERMINER. Court of, for trial of slaves. how constituted, 105.

vasions and insurrections, May keep one horse, or spaid 544. Penalties for neglect, 545. All officers in actual service, subject to martial law, 546. Courts martial, how constituted, 547. Punishment for disobedience, 547, 548. May plead the general issue, and give special matter in evidence, 548. When not permitted to resign, 548. Pay of, 548,549.

OFFICE JUDGMENTS. In the general court, when final, 335.

ORDINARIES. Licence for, how obtained, 71. Bond, 72. Fec, 73. Rates, 73. Table to be set up, 73. Penalty for retailing without licence, 73. Exceptions, 74. How suppressed, 74. What debts contracted at, void, 74. Penalty for selling liquors to sailors on credit, 75. Penalties, how recoverable, 75. Ordinaries in Williamsburg excepted, 75. And shall be under the jurisdiction of the court of Hustings, 75. Penalty on ordinary keepers, permitting gaming, 79. Hustings court of Norfolk has exclusive jurisdiction within that borough, 263. ORGAN. To be purchased for church in Williamsburg, 230.

of,

ORPHAN'S COURT.
When held for the county of
Lunenburg, 210.

OUTLAW.
What slaves may become, 110.
May be killed, 111. Out-

PAGAN CREEK.
Bridge to be built over, 288.
Power and duty of commis-
sioners, 288.

PAMUNKEY.
River, act for clearing, 291.
Power and duty of trustees,
292,293.

PAPER MONEY. Emitted, for the purpose of carrying on the war against the French, 467,528.

PARISH LEVY. For support of the clergy, how collected, 88.

PARISHES.

Of St. Mark and St. Thomas, in Culpeper, divided and new modelled, 256. Bromfield parish formed, 256. Vestry of parish of Frederick, in Frederick county dissolved, 258. Vestry of upper parish of Nansemond. authorized to sell certain lands, 266. Yestry of dissolved, 518. Of Truro, in county of Fairfax. authorized to sell their glebe, 270. Appropriation of the money, 271. Vestry of parish of Nottoway, in county of Amelia dissolved, and new one to be elected, 272. Of Washington, in Westmoreland county, authorized to sell certain lands, 290. Of Cumberland, in Bedford, di

vided, and Russel formed, $82. Part of Albemarle, in Surry, added to Southwark, 385. St. Andrew, in Brunswick county divided, and Meherrin formed, 386. Vestry of St. Andrew's dissolved, and a new one elected, 502. Of Nottoway in Amelia divided, and St. Patrick formed, 504. Vestry of parish of Cople, in Westmoreland dis solved, 517.

PASSES.

Or licences, for persons going out of the country, how obtained, 44,48. Slaves going abroad without, 109.

PATROLLERS. To be appointed out of the militia, 421. Their duty and allowance, 421, 422. Mode of appointing, 542. Their duty, 542. Allowance, 543. Penalty on officers failing to ap. point 543. On soldiers failing to do their duty 543. In Williamsburg and Norfolk, 543. Protection of,if sued 544.

PAY. Of officers and soldiers of the militia 116. Of the army 549. PEDLARS. To obtain licenses 245. Fee for 245.

PENAL LAWS. When special bail not requirable in prosecutions on, 333. PENSIONS. Allowed to soldiers maimed or wounded, in the French and Indian war, 527.

PILOTS. How nominated and appointed, 490. Penalty for acting without a branch 490. Proviso, Z z z-Vol. 6.

as to vessels in distress 490. Restriction as to partnership 491. Duty of pilots 491. Remedy against, for neglect 491. Rates of pilotage 491, 493. When pilots may, or may not be taken, 493. Table of fees to be exhibited, 493. PITCH.

Inspectors of appointed, their duty,147. How inspected,147. Contents of barrel of, 148. Regulations for exporting 150. Inspectors of, not to deal in, 484.

PLATS.

And certificates of survey, when and where returned 35. Surveyor not to deliver, except to the owner, 37 .Exceptions 37. PLEADINGS. Rules for filing, in general court 335. In replevin 336.

PLEAS.

In abatement, non est factum, replevin, rules for filing 336. POCAHONTAS. Town of, in Chesterfield county established, 276.

POLL-TAX. Extraordinary, for prosecuting the war against the French and Indians, 522. Provision, for better collecting 566. Remedy against sheriffs 566. Collectors, when to be appointed 567.

POOR. How removed, from parish to parish, 31. Penalty for not receiving them 32,, For not paying charges of removal, 32. For entertaining them without giving notice to church wardens 32. What poor children may be bound

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