when and how collected 329.
Mode of recruiting men for
three years or the war 330.
Additional bounty 331. Land
bounty, 300 acres to soldiers
who have enlisted, or shall en-
list and serve to the end of the
war 331. If quota not recruit-
ed to be drafted for eighteen
months 333. Troops how re-
viewed, furloughed and ren-
dezvoused 333. Mutiny or
resistance to this act, how
punishable 334. Quakers &
menonists drafted, exempted
from personal service, but a
substitute to be furnished at
expense of society 335. De-
sertions, how guarded against
335. Sick soldiers provided
for 335. Waggons procured
by impressment 335. Penal-
ty on masters receiving any
consideration for the enlist-
ment of their apprentices 335.
Penalty for selling recruits
336. Additional penalties for
concealing deserters 336.-
Person enlisting a soldier for
the war exempted from all o-
ther drafts or militia duty 337.
Clothing for the army to be
furnished by certain counties,
in what proportion, and of
what to consist 338. Mode of
furnishing the clothing for the
army in each county 339.-
Beef for the army, how fur-
nished by the several coun-
ties 340. Waggons for the
army, how furnished by the
several counties 342. Act for
procuring a supply of provi-
sions for the use of the army
revived and amended 344.

Prices of provisions 344.-
Continental officers of this
state reduced 373. Officers to
supply themselves with cloth-
ing 374. Their pay and ra-
tions to be made equal to spe-
cie; also the soldiers' pay 374.
Public stores discontinued &
clothier general appointed
374. Half pay to widows &
children of officers dying in
service 374. Paid by scale of
depreciation 374. Officers to
have half pay for life 374.--
Land bounty to general offi-
cers 375. Bounty in lands en-
creased to other officers 375.

Legal representatives entitled
to bounty 375. Land given
to Baron Steuben 375. Funds
vested in agent, for clothing
for the army 376. Public
vessels may be employed in
transporting clothing 377.-
Provided that one armed ves-
sel and a tender shall be em-
ployed on the Chesapeake
377. Corn may be exported
in exchange for salt 377.-
Two legions to be raised. 391.
Number, officers, & staff 391.
Pay and emoluments 392.-
Further time allowed to exe-
cute the acts for recruiting
this state's quota of troops for
the continental army, and for
supplying the army with
clothes, provisions and wag-
gons 393. Troops in the two
legions exempted from drafts
410. Term of service 411.
Persons opposing laws, for
calling out military force, de-
clared civilly dead 414. Of-
ficers appointed to enlist sol-

diers for two years or the war
433. Expenses of recruiting,
how paid 434. Bounty and
immunities 434. Officers in
the state line reduced 449.-
Regiments consolidated 449.
Not to affect general Spots-
wood's legions 449. State
quarter-master's, commissa-
ries, commissioners, &c. not
absolutely necessary to be
discharged 449. Executive
to call all officers reduced or
discharged to account 450.
Surplus stores, &c. transfer-
red to similar continental of-
ficers 450. For what time-
pay and subsistence of officers
and soldiers to be made equal
to specie 462. Auditors to ad-
just accounts according to
scale of depreciation & give
printed certificates payable
with interest 462. Also of of-
ficers and soldiers dead 462.
Or, out of the service, for
the time they served 463. Au-
ditors to return a list of cer-
tificates to the treasurer 463.
Advance to officers 463. Fu-
ture pay in specie 463. Offi-
cers to account for money ad-
vanced 463. In what man-
ner 464.
And for clothing
464. Certificates to be re-
ceived on sale of forfeited es-
tates 464. If sales paid for in
specie, that to be reserved for
redeeming certificates 464.-
Scale of depreciation 464.-
Further tract of territory al-
lotted for officers and soldiers
in lieu of that fallen into
North Carolina 465. When
and how their lands may be

surveyed 466. Return to be
made of state officers & their
merits 466. Their pay & sub-
sistence to be made equal to
continentals 467. Also their
bounty in lands, to be sur-
veyed as the regulars 467.-
Cavalry the same advantages
as infantry 467. Officers and
seamen of the navy, same as
land service 467. Tobacco
received for confiscated es-
tates to be sold and the mo-
ney to redeem certificates 467.
Act for supplying southern
army with waggons and hor-
ses 482. Penalty on sheriffs
and justices for neglect 482.
How recoverable 482. Wag-
gons and teams how disposed
of 483. Governor & council
to appoint persons to pur-
clase waggon horses 483.-
Virginia line on continental
establishment to be recruited
for two years or the war 499.
Recruiting expenses 499.-
Advance of money 499. Sol-
diers enlisting for two years
or the war, entitled to same
bounty and immunities as o-
other continentals 499. Per-
son furnishing a soldier for
two years or the war, exemp-
ted from militia duty 500.
ARTICLES OF WAR.
To be published 311. Militia in
actual service, subject to 416.
ARTIFICERS.
Artificers employed at iron

works exempted from militia
duty 397. Act continued 425,
444.

ARTILLERY.
Officers of artillery regiment, in

continental service authorised
to re-enlist their men 214.
Organization of garrison and
artillery regiment 215.

ASSEMBLY.
Wages of members of general
assembly, in tobacco, how
estimated and paid 30, 104,
229. Capitol to be erected for
at Richmond 86. When to
sit at Richmond 89. Grand
jury, at general court, to es-
timate price of tobacco paya-
ble to members of assembly
104. Acts fixing allowance
of members of general assem-
bly explained and amended
137. Elections for members
of assembly may be held at
any place secure from the e-
nemy 412.

ASSESSORS.

Of tax, further duties of 10.-
Their oath 11. Allowance
encreased 14. Duty of com-
missioners of tax and assess-
ors in furnishing lists to sher-
iffs 166. Allowance to com-
missioners and assessors 167.
Their duty in classing lands
242. Their oath on that oc-
casion 242. General oath 243.
Rule, if a difference of opin-
ion 243. Duty of commission-
ers and assessors 246. Allow-
ances 247, 252. Assessors to
be annually appointed, but to
assess once in two years 252.
Penalty for neglect of duty
252. Penalty on assessors en-
creased 361.

ASSIGNMENT.
Warrants and certificates assign-
able 60. Loan office certifi-
cates for paper money called

in, transferrable by assign-
ment only 467.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Salary of attorney general 118,
219,278,493. Salary of at-
torney general rated in to-
bacco 278. Value of tobacco
in money estimated by grand
jury 278. Salary of attorney
general in specie 493.
AUCTION.

See Vendues, and page 158.
AUDITORS.

Salaries of clerks in auditors'
office encreased 107,208,219,
278. Salary of auditors 118,
219.

Commissioners of tax
to settle with sheriffs, & tran-
smit account of settlement to
auditors 247. Salary of au-
ditors rated in tobacco 278.
Value of tobacco in money,
estimated by grand jury 278.
One judge of general court
may qualify the auditors 402.
Salary of auditors in specie
493.

AUGUSTA.

Part of the county of Augusta.
added to Monongalia 114.-
Another part of Augusta ad-
ded to Monongalia 351,
BACON.

Tax, payable in bacon 490.
BAIL.

Disaffected persons, confined by
order of executive not to be
set at liberty by bail, main-
prize, or habeas corpus 414.

BAINE, ROBERT.
Estate of Robert Baine, sold as
escheated property, restored
to him 452.

BALL, BURGESS
Certain lands whereof Burgess

Tax, payable in barley 490.
BATH.
Further time allowed purchasers
of lots in town of Bath to im-
prove them 108.

BAY.
Lands. ou bay of Chesapeake,
not to be granted 227.

BECK, WILLIAM
William Beck, a mulatto be-
longing to Thomas Walker,
jun. emancipated 211.

BEDFORD.
Bedford county divided and
Campbell formed 447. Boun-
daries 447. Court days 447.
BEEF.

See Pork, Beef, &c.
Act for inspection of pork, beef,
&c. 290. Fees altered 290.
Penalties altered 291. Beef
for the army how furnished
by the several counties 340.
BETTING.
Penalty on those who play or

bet at games or wagers 205.
BILBERRY, BENJAMIN
Cate a slave the property of

taking by robbery,
forging or counterfeiting cer-
tain bills of credit, felony
without clergy 93.

BONDS.

Sheriffs annually to give bond

for collection of taxes 506.
A copy to be sent to audi-
tors, which shall be evidence
506. Duty bonds, how given
512. Proceedings thereon

515.

BOOK DEBTS.
Act of 1748, prescribing method
of proving book debts repeal-
ed 133. Limitation of actions
on store accounts 133. Deli-
very of articles to be dated
133. Penalty for post-dating
133. When limitation to com-
mence 134. Courts and ju-
ries bound ex officio to take
notice of this act 134.
BOONSBOROUGH.
Town of Boonsborough in Ken-
tucky county established 134.
BOUNTY.

See Army.

Additional bounties to soldiers,
sailors and marines 23. Land
bounty 24. Land bounty to
volunteers under col. George
Rogers Clarke 26. To sol-
diers for protection of Illinois.
27. To those who enlist dur-
ing the war 27. Land bounty
to chaplains, surgeons and
surgeons' mates 141. Pro-
portion of land bounty to of

:

ficers and soldiers 160. Rights
́of those slain or dying in ser-
vice devolve on their heirs or
legal representatives 161.-
Bounty to militia ordered for
relief of South Carolina 224.
Bounty for recruits or drafts
for the continental army 260.
Bounty in lands, &c. to sai-
lors and marines for protection
of eastern frontier 298. Land
bounty 300 acres to soldiers
who have enlisted or shall en-
enlist and serve to the end of
the war 331. Land bounty
to general officers 375. Boun-
ty in lands to other officers
encreased 375. Legal reprc-
sentatives entitled to bounty
375. Land given to Baron
Steuben 375. Further tract
of territory allotted for boun-
ty of officers and soldiers, in
lieu of that fallen into North
Carolina 465. When & how
their lands may be surveyed
466. State troops as to land
bounty, made equal to conti-
nentals 467. Soldiers enlist-
ing for two years or the war,
entitled to same bounty and
immunities as other continen-
tals 499. Resolution extend-
ing land bounty to certain of
ficers and soldiers 539.

BRIBERY.
Penalty on collector of duties
for receiving a bribe, or con-
niving at a false entry 513.
And on persons offering a
bribe 514.

BRITISH DEBTS.
So much of act for sequestering
British property, &c. as allow

debtors to pay their debts in-
to the treasury repealed 227.
BRITISH PROPERTY.
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. Com-
missioners of sale 68. Sales
how conducted 68. Allow-
ance to escheators 68. Grants
for escheated lands, how ob-
tained 68. Proceedings a-
gainst escheators for delin-
quency 68. Allowance to
commissioners 69. Nett pro-
cecds to be extended in to-
bacco, how esti ted 69.-
Duty of escheators be per-
formed in Northern neck, by
sheriffs 69. British subjects
described 69. Property, in
particular instances, excepted
out of this act 70. Provision
for widows, wives, and chil-
dren 71. Mode and rules of
proceeding on traverse of of-
fice, and monstrans de droit
153. All bona fide sales by
British subjects, valid, collu-
sive sales, declared void, and
how detected 154. Injunc-
tions to inquisitions of escheat,
how and for what causes ob-
tained 155. Who are except-
ed out of the former act, and
how relievable 156. Titles to
estates found to have been es-
cheated, or forfeited, to which
a claim either had not been