two years 252. Their allow- ance 252. Penalty on, for ne- glect of duty 252. Commis- sioners to transmit account of settlement with sheriffs to au- ditors 247. Sheriffs to ac- count with and shew money collected for taxes to commis- sioner of tax once a month 255. Duty and allowance of commissioner therein 256.— Salaries of commissioners of the navy and war office, rated in tobacco 278. Value of to- bacco, in money, estimated by grand jury 278. Caveats al- lowed to judgments of com- missioners for adjusting titles to lands 354. Further allow- ance to commissioners and their attendants 355. Penalty on commissioners of tax for neglect of duty encreased 361. Allowances to commissioners for adjusting titles to lands, and their attendants encreas- ed 436,484. Tax on litigants encreased 436. County courts in district of Kentucky autho- rised to hear and determine land claims, left unfinished by the commissioners 436. Re- gister to issue grants thereon 437. State commissioners, &c. not absolutely necessary may be discharged by execu- tive 449. Surplus stores trans- ferred to similar continental officers 450. Commissioners to be appointed by the execu tive to take depositions, in order to perpetuate evidence of records destroyed by the enemy 454. Commissioners to receive taxes, payable in
commodities, how appointed 490. Penalty on commission- ers refusing to act 490. Bonds to be taken of commissioners 491. Commissioners to make returns to courts, and to the executive and auditors 492. Commissioners of tax, how appointed 501. Their oath and duty 501. Lands & lots to be valued without regard to buildings 502. How va- cancies in commissioners sup- plied 502. Commissioners duty in returning lists of lands to clerk 503. Allowance to commissioners 503. Penalty for neglect 503. Two sets of commissioners where two battalions in a county 504. COMMISSIONS. Sheriffs' commissions for col- lecting taxes 257,507. COMMODITIES.
Tax, payable in commodities 79. Places of deposit, how fixed 79. Commissaries of tax, their appointment and duty 79. On non-payment of tax in commodities, to be paid in money 80. Power of dis- tress 80. Further time allow- ed to pay tax in certain enu- merated commodities, called the specific tax 292,357,435. Persons liable to tax in cer- tain enumerated commodities, who have had their grain im- pressed for the use of the ar- my, entitled to a discount as to so much 404. Penalty on commissioners and receivers of specific tax for neglect of duty 405. Judgment on mo- tion without notice 405. How
judgment rendered 405. Da- mages 405. Remedy by com- missioners against receivers 405. Poll-tax payable in commodities 490. Tax in ba- con 490. Commissioners to receive taxes, how appointed 490. Penalty on commission- ers refusing to act 490. Bonds to be taken of commissioners 491. Places of deposit, how notified 491. Storage, how procured 491. Commodities dischargeable in money, at what rates 491. Distress, when and how to be made 491. Commissioners to make return to court, and to exe- cutive and auditors 492. To obey orders of executive 492. Power of sheriff to distrain and his liability 492. What proportion of specie tax, may be paid in tobacco, hemp or flour 508. Treasurer to deli- ver receipts to governor, who, with advice of council, to di- rect sale of commodities 509. COMMON. Lands on the bay of Chesā, peake, the sea shore, or shores of rivers and creeks, hereto- fore held as common, not to be granted 227.
COMMONWEALTH. Exclusive right of common- wealth to purchase lands of Indians asserted 97. Articles belonging to, or to United States, how recovered from those who have the unlawful possession 218.
COMPANIES. Agreements between companies, claiming lands under orders
of council, and purchases re- gulated 42.
COMPOSITION. Composition money, for lands, in what cases to be paid 41. CONFEDERATION. Ratification of articles of con- federation, delayed by Mary- land, on the ground that the western territories annexed to states, ought to become the property of the United States 547,548. Papers relating to that subject 547,561. When the articles of confederation were ratified by Maryland 548.
CONGRESS. Members of congress, when & how elected 74. Four always to attend 74. Times of at- tendance 74. How long eli- gible 74. How removable 75. W Vages 75. Office under state not vacated by appointment to congress 75. Delegates to congress restricted from en- gaging in trade 113. Their oath to that effect 113. What number of members of con- gress may represent the state 163. Allowances for them- selves and families 163. Their accounts, how rendered and paid 163. Delegates to con- gress disabled from holding any office, judiciary or exe- cutive 164. Congress autho- rised to impose a duty on goods and prizes 409. And to appoint collectors 409.- Appropriation of duties 410. Limitation 410. The last act suspended until the other states
Consuls from such states as ac- knowledge the independence of America, how received; deemed subjects or citizens of the state by whom appointed, guilty of crimes against this state, shall be remanded to their own sovereigns for pan- ishment 202. Their powers 202. In execution thereof, how to be aided 203. Seamen deserting, how apprehended 203. Mode of proceeding in suits where foreigners are parties 203. CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT See Army.
Officers of Virginia line, on continental establishment, em- powered to re-enlist their men 214. Recruits or drafts for continental army 257-262. Continental officers of this state reduced 373. Pay of of- ficers and soldiers made equal to specie 462, Scale of de- preciation 464. Further tract of territory allotted for 465. When and how their lands
surveyed 466. Virginia line on continental establishment, to be recruited for two years or the war 499. Soldiers thus enlisting entitled to same bounty and immunities as o- ther continentals 499.
CONTRACTS. Contracts to pay money, &c. won by gaming void 205.- Contracts and debts, in pa- per money, to be settled by a scale of depreciation 471.- Actual payments, full or par- tial, to stand for nominal a- mount 472. Scale of depre- ciation 472. Courts may de- termine disputes according to equity 473. Rules for settling intermediate judgments 473.
CONVEYANCES. Conveyances to secure money, &c. won at gaming enure to benefit of loser's heir 205.- Tax on conveyances 281. COSTS. Security for costs, when requir- ed in court of admiralty 101. COUNCIL.
See Privy Council. What surveys for lands, under orders of council, declared valid 36,486. What orders of council declared void 38. A- greements between compa- nies claiming under orders of council, and purchases regu- lated 42. Claims for lands under orders of council to be laid before court of appeals, and there decided 48. Salary of members of council 118, 219. How grants for land, surveyed under orders of council, on the eastern waters
may be obtained 179. Sala- ries of members of council, payable in tobacco 278. Va- lge of tobacco estimated by grand jury 278. Orders of council for land on the east- ern waters to be valid 486. COUNTERFEITING. Counterfeiting or forging land warrants, death without cler- gy 65. So, as to certain war- rants, treasury notes, &c. 93. Having in possession instru- ments for forging or counter- feiting 94. Proceedings a- gainst offenders 95. Persons. suspected of having forged or counterfeited notes, how ap- prehended 96. Rewards for apprehending 96. Forging or counterfeiting certificates punishable with death 185, 191,236. Forging or coun- terfeiting paper money 254, 286,349,397,429. Treasurer constituted judge of counter- feit paper money 271.
power to deface counterfeit bills 271. When he may call to his assistance two of the auditors 272.
COUNTIES. Part of the county of Augusta added to Monongalia 114.- Kentucky county divided, & Jefferson, Fayette, and Lin- coln formed 315. Bounda- ries 315. Court days 315.- Another part of Augusta ad- ded to Monongalia 351.- Brunswick county divided & Greensville formed 363.- Boundaries 363. Court days. 363. Bedford county divided and Campbell formed 447.
Boundaries 447. Court days
COUNTY COURTS. Penalty on county courts for ne- glecting to appoint commis- sioners of tax 361. Act for the relief of persons who have been or may be injured by the destruction of the records of county courts 453. Where deeds, wills, judgments, de- crees, or orders have been de- stroyed by the enemy, attest- ed copies to be again record- ed 453. How far evidence 453. Fees of clerks 454. For perpetuating testimony exe- cutive to appoint commission- ers 454. How to take depo- sitions and where to return them 454. Power to appoint a clerk 454. County courts to receive claims for property impressed for the use of the army 468 No claim for pre- perty impressed, to be allow- ed, until passed by coun- ty court, and certified to the general assembly 469.- Except as to certain provi- sion certificates 469. COURTS. When court of appeals, high
court of chancery, general court, and court of admiralty to sit at Richmond 89. Justi- ces of Nansemond authorised to appoint a place to hold courts, the town of Suffolk having been burnt by the ene- my 110. Courts and juries ex officio to take notice of act of limitation on store accounts 134. Court of Spotsylvania to be held at the house of
John Holladay 228. Gover- nor and council authorised to constitute special courts for trial of treasons, &c. in case of invasion or insurrection 387. Mode of proceeding 387. Governor and council may, by proclamation, change the time and place of holding courts 407. Judges may ad- journ if they think they can- not sit with safety 408. Court of admiralty may sit any where on proper occasions 408. Courts held under pro- clamation not one of the two for trial or discharge of crim- inals 408. No discontinuance if courts not held in usual terms 408. Special courts may be constituted by gover- nor and council, with same powers, as to criminal mat- ters, as general court 415, 460. Courts suspended, ex- cept in particular cases 422. Suspension removed 455.- Terms of superior courts al- tered 455. Justices of James city authorised to hold their courts any where in the coun- ty, during the prevalence of the small-pox in Williams- burg 457.
COURTS-MARTIAL.
In the militia, when to be held 83.
post-dating 133. When limi- tation to commence 134.- Courts and juries bound ex officio to take notice of this
CREEKS. Lands on shores of creeks not to be granted 227. CRIER.
To court of appeals, how ap、 pointed and tenure of office 91.
CRIMES. Crimes injurious to the inde- pendence of America, but less than treason, defined and pun- ished 268. Asserting that the United States ought to be de- pendent on the crown or par- liament of Great Britain 268. Or, acknowledging the king to be sovereign, or himself a subject 269. Or, who shall discourage enlistments, or the military service, or advise to submit to the enemy 269.- Or, who shall wish health or success to the king 269. Ju- risdiction of offence 269.- Charge to grand jury 270.- When security may be re- quired 270. Sentence to be published 270. Limitation of prosecution 270. Power of justices 270.
CROCKETT, WALTER Wm. Campbell, Walter Crock- ett and others indemnified for suppressing a conspiracy and insurrection 195.
CUMBERLAND.
Commissioners appointed for marking and opening a road over the Cumberland moun- tains to Kentucky 143. Guard
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