fore court of appeals & there
decided 48. Proviso in fa-
vour of officers and soldiers
49. Register's duty in record-
ing land warrants, and mak-
ing out grants 49. Caveats
depending before the revolu
tion, how proceeded on 49.
Act for establishing land of
fice, &c. 50. Register, how
appointed and qualified 50.
Vacancy, how supplied 51.
Copies attested by him as
good evidence as originals
51. Land bounties, upon
what evidence obtained 51.
How title to unappropriated
lands may be obtained 52.-
Land warrants, how obtain-
ed, located and executed 52.
Exchange warrants 52. Sur-
veyors and their deputies,
how appointed and qualified
53. Penalty for sale of office.
53. Locations how to be
made 54. Time for surveying
when appointed 54. No en-
iry admitted, without a war-
rant, except for settlement
rights 54. Certain tracts of
country excepted from loca-
tion 54. Resolution reserving
lands, for officers & soldiers
55, note.

How a chief sur-
veyor may locate his own
lands 56. Notice of survey,
how given 56. Effect of par-
ty's failing to attend with
chain-carriers & marker 56.
When principal to direct de-
puty to survey 57. Chain-
carriers to be sworn 57: Sur-
veys, how made & bounded
57: Plat and certificate, when
and how made and disposed

of 57: Returns to William &
Mary college 57: Clerk of
county courts, and surveyor,
not to be united 58: Penalty
on surveyors for neglect 58:
Surveyor's office, how exam-
ined 58: Plat and certificates
when to be returned to land
office 58: Causes of caveat
58: Proceedings upon caveats
58: New caveats, for what
causes allowed 59: Costs on
caveats 59: New warrants,
where lauds lost by caveat
59: Duty of register in rela-
tion to exchange, renewed,
or execution of warrants 59:
Warrants and certificates of
survey assignable 60: Form
of grant or patent 60: How
executed and recorded 61:-
Grants to heirs and assignees
61: Within what time copies
of plats and certificates may
not be delivered 61: Swamps,
marshes and sunken grounds,
pre-emption of, in owners of
contiguous high lands 61:-
Grants for, how obtained 62:
Surplus lands, within bounds
of patents, how grants for,
obtained 62: Remedy of land
holders, unjustly vexed 63:-
Method of rectifying mistakes
in bounds, and obtaining in-
clusive patents 63: General
court yearly to cause land
office to be examined, and
certain warrants, &c. cancel-
led 64: Treasurer to give
bond to account for money
accruing under this act 64:
Quit-rents and reservations
in the royal grants abolished
04: Petitions for lapsed land

abolished 65: Stealing, forg-
ing, counterfeiting, &c. land-
warrants, felony without cler-
gy 65: Lands of British sub-
jects vested in commonwealth,
by escheat 67: Grants for es-
cheated lands, how obtained
68: How lands acquired for
public buildings, in Rich-
mond, and paid for 87: Ex-
clusive right of common-
wealth to purchase lands of
Indians asserted 97: Certain
lots of William Grayson se-
vered from the town of Dum-
fries 102: Certain trustees
authorised to pay to William
Todd, the proceeds of the sale
of his entailed lands 103:--
Vestry of Russell parish, in
county of Bedford, authorised
to sell their glebe 109: Glebe
of parish of St. Anne, in Al-
bemarle, to be sold, and mo-
ney divided between parishes
of St. Anne and Fluvanna
112: Inquests, on escheated
lands, how taken 116: How
long lands to remain in hands
of escheator before granted
116: Escheated lands, when
sold 116: Certain persons
authorised to convey to John
Fox certain entailed lands,
sold as the estate of Saralı,
the wife of John Rootes 120:
Officers and soldiers in ser-
vice, allowed further time to
prove their claims for settle-
inent rights and improve-
ments on lands 132: War-
rants to issue to Charles
Simms, for certain lands on
the Ohio river and Rackoon
creek 139: Land bounty to

chaplains, surgeons and sur-
geon's mates 141: Certain
certificates receivable in pay-
ment for treasury land war-
rants 148: Loan office certi-
ficates with interest receivable
for waste lands 148: Reser-
vation of lands for officers &
soldiers 159: Penalty on set-
tlers not removing from the
reserved lands 159: Propor-
tions of land bounty to offi-
cers and soldiers 160: Rights
of those slain or dying in ser-
vice devolve on their heirs or
legal representatives 161:-
Settlements on north west
side of the Ohio reprobated
and prohibited 161: Settlers
may be removed by military
force 161: Exceptions 161:
Penalty for opposing execu-
tion of treasury land warrants
by force, violence or threats
162: Civil officers to suppress®
force 162: Rights for land
under the proclamation of
1763, how authenticated 177:
Powers of commissioners for
adjusting claims to unpa-
tented lands extended 178:
Pre-emption warrants may be
issued to actual settlers, on
credit, if unable to pay the
state price 178: But grants
not to issue until payment of
purchase money 178: Provi-
ded that this privilege shall
extend to actual settlements
only 179: Certificates for
settlement and pre-emption
rights not to be granted, un-
less to persons who have ta-
ken the oath of allegiance to
this commonwealth 179:-

Exception as to inhabitants.
of disputed territory between
this state and Pennsylvania
179: How grants for lands
surveyed under orders of
council, on the eastern waters
may be obtained 179: Caveats
on surveys before establish-
ment of land office, how pro-
ceeded on 179: Glebe of
Drysdale parish in Caroline
and King and Queen coun-
ties to be sold 210:
on the bay of Chesapeake,
the sea shore, or shores of ri-
vers and creeks, heretofore
held as common, not to be
granted 227: Further time
allowed for returning surveys
and plats 237: Further time
allowed to the western com-
missioners 238: Further al-
lowance to them and their
officers 238: Tax upon liti-
Fur-
gants encreased 238:

Lands

ther time to enter warrants on
pre-emption certificates with
All claims
surveyor 239:
within the territory claimed
by Pennsylvania suspended
239: Further time to return
pre-emption certificates, and
providing in case of their loss
239: Lost warrants, how re-
newed 240: Regulations con-
cerning warrants for military
service under the proclama-
tion of 1763 240: Further
regulations 240: Price of
waste lands raised 245: In
what morey payable 245:-
Capitol and palace in Wil-
liamsburg, and the public
lands in James city and on
the eastern shore to be sold,

in the event that taxes prove
Certain
unproductive 285:
escheated lands in Kentucky
county vested in trustees for
Act
a public school 287:
concerning escheats and for-
feitures from British subjects
suspended, as to lands in
Henry and Amherst, convey-
ed by John Harmer to Wal-
ter King Cole and George
Harmer 300: Land bounty,
300 acres, to soldiers who
have enlisted, or who shall
enlist and serve to the end of
the war 331: Deputy survey-
ors how appointed 353: Ca-
veats allowed against the
judgments of the commission-
ers 354: Further allowance
to commissioners and their
attendants 355: Certain hou-
ses and tenements in Alexan-
dria vested in John Sutton
372: Land bounty to gene-
ral officers 375: Bounty in
lands encreased to other offi-
cers 375: Legal representa-
tives entitled to bounty 375:
Land given to Baron Steu-
ben 375: Powers of commis-
sioners for adjusting claims
to unpatented lands, extend-
ed; also further time allowed
for obtaining warrants upon
certificates for pre-emption
rights, and to return surveys
to the land office 403: The
issuing of patents suspended
422: County courts in the
Kentucky country authorised
to direct surveys to poor per-
sons, actual settlers, not ex-
ceeding 400 acres to a fami-
ly 431: Allowances to com-

missioners for adjusting titles
to lands encreased 436: Tax
on suitors encreased 436:--
County courts in district of
Kentucky authorised to hear
and determine land claims,
left unfinished by commis-
sioners 436: Register to is-
sue grants thereon 437: Re-
gister of the land office to ap-
point a deputy to reside in
the Kentucky country 445:-
His duties 445: Charles Car-
ter, esq. the surviving trustee
of William Byrd, esq. autho-
rised to convey lots and lands
held under Byrd's lottery &
a deed of trust 446: Further
tract of territory allotted to
officers and soldiers in lieu of
that fallen into North Caro-
lina 465: When & how their
lands may be surveyed 466:
State troops, as to land boun-
ty, made equal to continen-
tals 467: Certain lands where-
of Burgess Ball is seized as
tenant for life, vested in trus-
tees to be sold, and the mo-
nies laid out in other lands
470: Power of commissioners
for adjusting claims to lands.
further continued 484: Fur-
ther time to obtain warrants
upon certificates for pre-emp-
tion rights, and enter them
with the surveyor 484: Al-
lowance to commissioners &
attending officers 484: Tax

warrants under former go-
vernment 486: When surveys
shall be made of lands on the
eastern waters 486: Orders
of council for land on the
eastern waters to be valid
486: Patents to issue as usual
notwithstanding the act of
May 1781, chap. 9, 487.-
Register to allow five months
for the late occlusion of the
courts 487: Not necessary to
exchange warrants for mili-
tary service last war 487:-
Henry McCabe authorised to
sell certain lands in Loudoun
and lots in Leesburg for pay-
ment of the debts of his father
Henry McCabe, dec'd. 488.
Lands and lots to be valued,
for taxation, without regard
to buildings 502. Rules of
October 1777, chap. 2, to be
observed 502. Penalty on
proprietors failing to give ac-
count of lands 502. Com-
missioners duty in returning
list of lands to the clerk 503.
And duty of clerks therein
$03. Directions in case of
lands distrained 507. Tax on
patents 510. Lands, &c.
seized for taxes, not to be
sold, if they will not bring
three fourths of their value
516. Resolution extending
bounty in lands to certain
officers and soldiers 539.
LAND-TAX.

courts to hear and determine
disputes in surveying pre-
emption rights 485: Within
what time military warrants
to be located 485:
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502. Commissioners & as-
sessors to meet and class the
lands 242. Lands and lots to
be valued without regard to
buildings 502. Penalty on

proprietors failing to give ac-
count of lands 502. Duty of
commissioners and clerk 503.
Tax on lands 504. How dis-
trained and sold for taxes
507,516. Tax on patents 510.
LAND WARRANTS.
How obtained, located & execu- |
ted 52. Exchange warrants
52. New warrants when lost
by caveat 59. Assignable 60.
Stealing or forging land war-
rant felony without clergy
65. Certain certificates recei-
vable in payment for treasury
land warrants 148. Loan of
fice certificates with interest
receivable for waste lands
148. Penalty for opposing
execution of treasury land
warrants 162. Lost warrants, |
how renewed 240. Price rais-
ed 248. Paper money recei-
vable for land warrants 457.

LAPSED LAND.
Petitions for lapsed land abol-
ished 65.

LARCENY.
Stealing land-warrant, felony
without clergy 65. So, as to
certain warrants, certificates,
bills of credit, treasury notes,
&c. 93.

LAWS.
By what laws court of admiral-
ty governed 98. Provision
where regulations of con-
gress conflict with laws of
state 98.

LEAD MINES.
Lead mines the property of
John and Mead Anderson, to

In court of admiralty, rules for
filing 100.

LICENCE.
Marriage licence or publication
of banns necessary, except
between quakers and meno-
nists 362.

LIMITATION.
Limitation of actions on store
accounts 133. Delivery of ar-
ticles to be dated 133. Pen-
alty for post-dating 133.-
When limitation to commence
134. Courts and juries ex of
ficio to take notice of this act
134. Time taken out of act
of limitations 423.

LINCOLN.
County, formed from Kentucky
315. Boundaries 315. Court
days 315.

LIQUORS.
Duty on liquors foreign & do
mestic 168. Mode of collec-
tion 169. Tax on liquors im-
ported 283. Regulations for
collecting 283. Duty on spi-
rits and wine 511. How casks
entered 512.

LOAN.

ing to the value of the soil

only 193.

money, tobacco, hemp or
flour 481. Interest at 6 per