deserted Land be denyed of having the first grant he making his Rights appear when he Petitions for the Land And whereas the former Act concerning deserted Lands reserved to the first taker up his Rights to take up Land in another place It is here Enacted That in regard he hath had the benefits of his Rights held the Land in possession might make use of the Timber without contradiction and yet neither pays the King any Rents nor suffers him to admit any new Tenant that the Rights aswell as the Land shall be forfeited and the Grantee made incapable of using any of them afterwards Provided that any person having taken Upland deserted before the making of this Act in November 1652. shall not by vertue of this Act be outed of possession LXX Seating upon others Dividents WHereas divers Suits have risen about Seating ignorantly upon other mens Lands for desiding the same Be it enacted that if any person whatsoever hath built or seated upon any Lands supposed his own but proving by a Just Survey to belong to another the charge of such building Seating or Cleering shall by twelve men upon their Oaths be indifferently valued and the consideration by the said Twelve men so adjudged shall be paid by the owner of the Land to the first Seater that was at the charge But if that shall amount to more then the said Owner is willing to disburse then the said Twelve men shall make a valuation of what the Land was worth before the Seating thereof which the Seater shall accordingly pay to the true Owner Provided alwayes That no consideration shall be allowed for Building or Cleering to any person that shall obstinately persist after lawful warning given him to desist LXXI Not to Shoot or Range upon other mens Lands WHereas the Rights and Interests of the Inhabitants are very much infringed by the hunting shooting of divers men upon their Neighbours Dividends contrary to the Priviledges granted them by their Pattents whereby many Injuries do dayly happen to the owners of the said Land Be it Enacted That if any Planter or other shall hunt or shoot within the limits of anothers Dividend without leave first obtained from the Proprietor he or they so offending shall forfeit for every such Trespass Four hundred pounds of Tobacco one half to the Owner of the Land and the other half to Publique uses Notwithstanding it shall be lawful for any person or persons to hunt or shoot upon any Dividend of Land not planted or seated though taken up without restraint or penalty Provided also That it shall be lawful for any person that hath shot any game without the limits of another mans Land to pursue the same into any mans Dividend and freely to carry away the same as also to seek or fetch his own Cattle or Hoggs off of any mans Land first giving notice to the owner of the Land of his intent and of the time he intends to stay upon it to the end that the said owner may if he think fit send one to see what Cattel or Hogs he drives away Provided alwayes that it shall be lawful for the Governour to Commissionate some Gentlemen to give licence to persons to hunt wild Hogs upon any mans Land without their Fenced Plantations LXXII Lands five years in possession WHereas sundry Suits and Controversies have been and dayly do arise about Claims and Titles to Lands to the great impoverishing of divers persons For Remedy whereof and for the better establishing the Inhabitants in the Rights and Possessions hereafter Be it Enacted That all persons whatsoever that have or do pretend any Title to any Land shall prosecute their Claims before the said Land hath been peaceably enjoyed Five years otherwise it shall be a good plea in Bar for the Possessour of such Land Claimed or Possessed to affirm He hath had peaceable Possession without Claim by Commencement or Prosecution of Suit full five years proof whereof shall be a sufficient Confirmation to the Possessor and shall conclude the Claim and Title of the pretender And this Act to extend to all such as have not prosecuted their Title within five years since the 6 day of October 1646. Alwayes provided that the limitation of five years in this Act expressed shall not bar Orphans nor Widows under Covert nor persons out of the Countrey nor persons of unsound mind But that the said Orphans shall have five years after they be of Age Women five years free from Coverture viz. If she marry again before her five years are expired and her husband omit to make Claim his omission shall be a good bar against him but if the Woman survive she shall have so long time allowed her to Claim in as will make up the first time of her freedom Five years Persons of unsound mind five years after their recovery from their impotence Persons out of the Countrey five years after their Arrival in the Countrey Provided they come in within two years after the Title to the Land became due in which times if they Claim not as aforesaid to be utterly barred for ever For otherwise the expectation of Heirs out of England where there is none born here must in a short time leave the greatest part of the Countrey unseated and unpeopled no man knowing how or of whom either to purchase or take Lease LXXIII Against Fraudulent Conveyances BE it enacted and confirmed That no person or persons whatsoever shall pass over by Conveyance or otherwise any part of his Estate whether Lands Goods or Cattel whereby his Creditours not having notice thereof might be defrauded of their just Debts unless such Conveyance or other Deeds be acknowledged before the Governour and Council at the General-Court or before the Justices at the County-Courts and there Registred in a Book for that purpose within six moneths after such Alienation And whoever shall make over or alienate any part of his Estate otherwise then is here expressed the same shall not be accompted valid in Law nor shall it bar any Creditor by seizing the same by Law for satisfaction of the Debt the Property of the Estate not being legally vested in any but the first Vendour And it is further Enacted That any Conveyance made and acknowledged and recorded shall not be held good in Law against any Creditours or former Purchasers until four moneths after such Acknowledgment made and recorded in which time the Creditours or former Purchasers may shew for what cause the said Conveyance is to be accompted Fraudulent but if none appear within the said four moneths after the first Acknowledgment in Court then the Sale shall be for ever after good against all other Claimers or Pretenders whatsoever unless such as pretend to overthrow the first sellers Title in whom only five years possession can bar Provided that this Act shall not extend to such persons who for satisfaction of just Debts shall make a Bill of Sale of their Estates or any part thereof and deliver
it bona fide into the possession of the Creditour but such Act shall be good and valid to all intents and purposes this Act being made only to prevent fraud and deceit LXXIV Quit-Rents how to be paid WHereas his Majesties hath by his Commissioners appointed a Treasurer to receive the Quit-Rents and other Fees and Profits due to his Majesty And the payment of Quit-Rents being due in Money which we being destitute of Coin cannot procure Be it Enacted That those persons that cannot procure Money shall pay their said Rents in Tobacco at two pence per pound to such Collector or Collectors as by his Majestie 's Treasurer shall be appointed and that the Countrey paying the Rents double the two next years shall be acquitted from all Arrears by Assent of the Honourable Sir William Berkeley who is authorized by the Treasurer to make Composition LXXV Surveyors of Land BE it Enacted That Surveyors of Land shall demand no more than Twenty pounds of Tobacco for measuring One hundred Acres of Land if the parcel exceed Five hundred Acres but if under to be allowed One hundred pounds of Tobacco and for the same shall deliver an exact Plot of each parcel Surveyed and Measured And if any Surveyor upon reasonable demand shall refuse to measure the Dividend for any person whatsoever for the consideration and satisfaction aforesaid such Surveyor shall be liable to the censure of the Court in that County where he liveth And if any Surveyor shall be desired to go further from his place of Residence than he can return in one day such Surveyor shall have the allowance of Thirty pounds of Tobacco per day for every dayes absence from his dwelling and if his passage cannot be but by Water then such persons as shall imploy him shall provide for his transport out and home Provided no pay to be received before the Plot delivered LXXVI Land to be plainly Marked and Bounded WHereas many Contentious Suites do arise about Titles to Land occasioned much through the Fraudulent and underhand-dealing of Surveyors who frequently make sales of the Surveyes by them made in the behalf of one person to another whereby oftentimes he that had the first and justest Right is unjustly deprived of his due For prevention whereof for the future Be it Enacted and Ordained That no Surveyor of Land shall give a Plot of any Land Surveyed by him unto any other person whatsoever untill six moneths after such Plot is drawn according to its Survey And that all Land Surveyed shall be at the Surveying thereof plainly Marked and Bounded for all persons to take notice of that none may by the ignorance of the Bounds intrench upon anothers Right And the persons offending either in giving out of Surveyes contrary to this Act or not sufficiently marking his Bounds to forfeit Five hundred pounds of Tobacco for every hundred Acres the Survey shall be given of to the use of the Countrey LXXVII What Fences shall be sufficient BE it also enacted and confirmed by this present Grand Assembly That every Planter shall make a sufficient Fence about his cleared ground at the least four foot and a half high which if he shall be deficient in what Trespass or Dammage soever he shall receive or sustain by Hogs Goats or Cattel shall be his own loss and detriment And also if it shall happen that any person shall hunt any of the said Horses Mares Hogs Goats or Cattel that shall so offend and do them harm he shall make satisfaction for any of them that shall be so hurt to the owners of them to be recovered in any Court of Justice within the Colony And it is further Enacted That where any Horses Mares Cattel or Hogs shall endamage any person for want of such Fence as aforesaid and the party damnified do wilfully kill or otherwise hurt so as the Cattel Hogs Horses or Mares do die of such hurt whether by Dogs set upon them or otherwise in such case the owner of the ground shall not only be liable to satisfie the value of such Horses Mares Hogs or Cattel but by vertue of this Act be adjudged to satisfie double the value of such Horses Mares Hogs or Cattel so killed to the owners of them And further Be it enacted That where the Fence shall be adjudged sufficient viz. four foot and a half high and close down to the bottom that in case any Dammage or Trespass be then done or committed to any person having such Fences by either Horses Mares Goats or any other Cattel whatsoever the owners of such Horses Mares c. shall be liable to make satisfaction for their Trespass and Dammage to the person injured in case the Fence be found by two honest men appointed by the next Commissioner to be sufficient LXXVIII Bounds of Lands to be every four years renewed by the view of Neighbourhood WHereas many contentious Suits are dayly incited and stirred up about the Bounds of Land for which no Remedy yet hath been provided the 57 d. Act prohibiting Re-surveyes not applying the expected Remedies for if the Survey be just yet Surveyors being for the most part careless of seeing the Trees marked or the owners never renewing them in a short time the Chops being grown up or the Trees fallen the Bounds become as uncertain as at first and upon a new Survey the least variation of a Compass alters the scituation of the whole Neighbourhood and deprives many persons of Houses Orchards and all to their infinite losse and trouble For prevention whereof Be it Enacted That within twelve moneths after this Act all the Inhabitants of every Neck and Tract of Land adjoyning shall go in Procession and see the marked Trees of every Mans Land in those Precincts to be renewed and the same course to be taken once in every four years by which means the inconveniency of Clandestine Surveyes will be taken away and the Bounds will be so generally known and the marks so fresh that no alteration can be made afterwards And Be it further Enacted that the Bounds by the consent of the present Proprietors being once thus setled shall conclude the said Proprietours and all others Claiming from or under any of them from any future Alterations of their Bounds be there within the said Bounds more or lesse Lands then they pretend to And if it shall happen any difference to be at present that cannot be by the Neighbours themselves decided Be it further Enacted that two honest and able Surveyors shall in presence of the Neighbourhood lay out the Land in controversie and the Bounds laid out to be the certain Bounds and ever after to be renewed and continue so but the person causing tho difference to pay the charge of the Survey It tending much more to the preservation of Friendship among Neighbours to have a present and final Decision of their differences while men yet live that are acquainted with the first Surveyes and while Land is yet at a low value
have purchased and hold their Lands by no other Titles then such sales which can be of no validity against the claim of the King whom no time can prescribe and to whom if an Heir appear not the Land must of necessity devolve And if the King should at any time give express Order to an Escheater to make inquiry into the Titles we hold by the said Escheater cannot by vertue of his Office but find all such Lands for the King which we Francis Morison and Thomas Ludwell who are at present intrusted by his Majesties Treasurer to make composition for all Lands so Escheated to his Majesty taking into our serious consideration and out of our tender care of many poor men who by the loss of Lands thus perhaps dearly purchased and honestly payd for and out of our sense of the many inconveniences and great damages would fall upon them by being ousted out of their Possessions by the severity of a too rigorous Escheator and that on the other side we might not seem to debarr his Majesty of his just Rights we have thought it convenient to propose a certain Rule for Compositions for all Lands held by any pretended Right two years by which while the power is in our hands we shall proceed and if the Assembly think it a favour we shall joyn with them making it our request to Major Norwood his Majesties Treasurer to get his Majesty to confine them that no succeeding Escheator may at his pleasure rigorously exceed these our moderate and reasonable Demands 1. We concede that any person having been two years in possession of any Land that ought to have been vested in his Majesty by Escheat shall pay for his Composition but one Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every fifty acres besides the Fees for finding the Office and drawing the Conveyance 2. That every person having been so in possession two years as aforesaid shall have Eight Months time to petition for and make their Composition but if they defer it longer and another sue for it and obtain it they can impute the blame to nothing but their own neglect 3. That where there is a Widdow she shall enjoy the Land of her Husband during her life and be admitted in the first place to make her Composition for the Fee-simple in case she signifie her desire within the time aforesaid That all Lands escheated before the two years aforesaid the person concerned shall pay for his Composition as aforesaid but all Lands which shall hereafter lapse or which have lapsed within the two years last past the Composition to be made for with those by his Majesties Treasurer appointed and authorized thereunto and that the Widdow be admitted in the first place she making her claim within Eight Months according to the Proposition abovesaid XIX Courts WHereas the name of Quarter-Courts is altogether unsuitable to the nature of those Courts held by the Governour and Council both in respect there are but three of those Courts in the year as also because they are not equally distributed in the Quarters of the Year September and November being too neer and March too long from them to admit of that Title Be it therefore enacted That the said Courts be no longer stiled Quarter-Courts but that they be henceforth called General-Courts a name more suitable to the nature of them as being places where all persons and causes have generally audience and receive determination Whereas the Acts of Assembly already made are very defective in prescribing the Rules to be observed in the proceedings both in those General and the particular County-Courts for want whereof many errors are committed the respects due to the Courts so nearly representing His Majesties sacred Person by the clamorous unmannerliness of the people lost and the Order Gravity and Decorum which should manifest the authority of a Court in the Court it self neglected And in regard the long omission of those hugely material though in themselves little things of form hath caused all things still to continue in the first disorders It hath appeared necessary to this present Grand Assembly to set down the Rules and Forms themselves for the beginning continuance and proceedings in the said Courts as followeth And it is therefore enacted That the General-Courts begin and continue as followeth viz. General Courts to begin and continue That March-Court begin the Twentieth of March if it be not Saturday or Sunday and then the Munday following and hold eighteen dayes not accounting Sundays in the number That September-Court begin the Twentieth of September if it be not Saturday or Sunday and then to begin the Munday following and hold Twelve dayes not accompting Sundayes in the number That November-Court begin the Twentieth of November if it be not Saturday or Sunday and then to begin the Munday after and hold twelve dayes not accounting Sundayes in the number That Adjournments of the said Courts be alwayes avoided and that they begin precisely upon the day that all persons knowing the day of the return of the Writs may accordingly give their attendance Stile how entred That the Stile of the Court be entred thus At a General Court held at James-City the twentieth of _____ by His Majesties Governour and Council in the _____ year of the Raign of our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the year of our Lord God _____ present Insert the name of the Governour and Council Silence commanded Then let the Cryer or under-Sheriff make Proclamation and say O Yes O Yes O Yes silence is commanded in the Court while His Majesties Governour and Council are sitting upon pain of Imprisonment Suitors to appear After Silence commanded let the Cryer make Proclamation saying All manner of persons that have any thing to do at this Court draw neer and give your attendance and if any one have any plaint to enter or suit to prosecute let them come forth and they shall be heard When silence is thus commanded and Proclamation made upon calling the Docket the Cryer shall call for the Plaintiff Calling the Plaintiff A. B. Come forth and prosecute thy Action against C. D. or else thou wilt be nonsuite and the Plaintiff putting in his Declaration the Cryer shall call for the Defendant Calling for the Defendant C. D. come forth and save thee and thy Bail or else thou wilt forfeit thy Recognizance For proceedings in the said Courts Warrants to be issued by the Clerks XX. Actions to be Proportioned BE it Enacted That Warrants be issued by the Clerks of the General Courts and the said Clerk so proportion the number of his Actions that there be for each day Twenty and that until there be Twenty Actions entred for the first day no Warrant issue for the second and then Twenty for the second before any issue for the third and so proportionably Twenty per day for so many days as there are
Child Administers the Surplusage after Debts paid and the funeral charge according to the quality of the person allowed for shall be equally divided between the Widdow and Children viz. one full third of the personal Estate to the Widdow and the other two Thirds among the Children if any of which dye before it come to age his proportion to be devided among the surviving Children And whereas It hath been the frequent evil practice of Administrators assoon as they have obtained an Order to Administer to Act as Administrators by vertue of that Order without giving security or taking out their Commissions so that the Estate being imbezelled away no Accompt can be given thereof Be it therefore Enacted That who ever pretends to Administer upon any Estate shall bring to the Court sufficient security before the Order shall be granted and an Order thus obtained legally by giving such security to be truly accomptable to bring in a true Inventory and to perform such things as the Administrators by Law are enjoyned shall not at any time after be reversed unless the party that obtained the same dye before he hath given an Accompt of the Estate and obtained his Quietus In which case the Court is impowred to grant the Administration of that Estate so not accompted for to some other person who may by vertue thereof call his Heirs Executors or Administrators of the former Administrators to Accompt who shall pay out of the said deceased Admistrators Estate all such debts as shall be found due to the Estate he Administred upon in the first place LXVI Concerning Orphans COncerning Orphans Estates be it enacted That all Wills and Testaments be firm and inviolable unless the Executors or Overseers do refuse to execute the Trust reposed in them by the Testator In which case the Court may appoint others to Act according to the Will but if the said Will be so made that no person will undertake the managing of the Estate or Education of the Orphans according to the Tenour of it then that the Estate by the appointment of the Court shall be managed according to the Rules set down for the ordering the estate of persons Intestate as followeth First That no Accompt be allowed for Dyet Clothes Physick or else against any Orphans Estate but they to be Educated and provided for by the interest of the Estate and Increase of their Stock according to the Proportion of their Estates if it will bear it But if the Estate be so mean and inconsiderable that it will not extend to a free Education Then it is Enacted That such Orphans shall be bound Apprentices to some Handi-craft Trade until one and Twenty years of age except some Kinsman or Relation will maintain them for the Interest of the small Estate they have without diminution of the principal which whether great or small alwayes to be delivered to the Orphan at the years appointed by Law That all Cattel Horses and Sheep be returned in kind by the Guardian according to Age and Number when as he received them And because several had before the first making of this Act Estates of Orphans in their hands which they kept for the Male-increase and giving the yearly Accompt of the Augmentation or Diminution of the Orphans Stock which by the carelesness or wickedness of the Guardians was usually consumed before they came to age and disputes thereupon arise in the several Courts how such persons should be proceeded with and Accompts of Orphans Estates how to be given them It is hereby declared That all persons possessed of Orphans Stocks before the first making this Act shall be bound to deliver to the Orphan when he comes to age such and so many of any kind as he was possest of when he gave his Accompt to the next Orphans Court succeeding the publication thereof That all Place and Money be preserved and delivered in kind according to the weight and quantity that other Houshold-stuff and Lumber be apprized in Money and the value thereof paid by the Guardian to the Orphan when he comes to age in the Countrey Commodities at the price Currant as it shall be worth at the time in the place where the Orphan Estate is managed That the Court take able and sufficient security for Orphans Estates and enquire yearly of the security and if the Court see cause to have it changed and called in and placed as the Court shall think fit the said Court to enquire also whether Orphans be kept maintained and educated according to their Estates and if they find any notorious defect to remove the Orphans to other Guardians And also for those that are bound Apprentices to change their Masters if they use them rigorously or neglect to teach them their Trades That no more be allowed to Guardians for Collecting of Debts due to any Estate then ten in the hundred the usual allowance of Merchants to their Factors and Attorneys That Thirty pounds of Tobacco per day be allowed to each Apprizet for Apprizement of any Estate if they will take it and no more That no allowance be made by the Court of Excessive Funeral expences but that a Regulation thereof be made according to the Proportion of the Estate and the Quality of the Person LXVII Orphans-Land not to be aliened BE it also Enacted for the future benefit of al Orphans That the several County-Courts do take into their serious consideration and care that the Lands in their County belonging to any Orphan be not aliened sold or taken up as deserted Land by any persons during the minority of the Orphan and that the Guards or Overseers of any Orphan do not lett set or Farm out any Land belonging to any Orphan for longer Tearm than until the Orphan be of age and that an especial care be had that the Tenant shall improve the Plantation by planting an Orchard and building a good House and that the Tenant be bound to maintain good Fence about the Orchard and keep the House in sufficient repair and leave it Tenantable at his surrender and that Provision be made in the Lease for preventing all Wast of Timber or imploying it to any other use then the use of the Plantation LXVIII Grants of Land BE it hereby Enacted That any person or persons claiming Land as due by Importation of Servants shall first prove their Title or Just Right before the Governor and Council or produce Certificates from the County-Courts to the Secretarie's Office before any Survey be made or Grant admitted It being unreasonable that others furnished with Rights should be debarred by pretence of a Survey which in it self is no Title LXIX Deserted Lands BE it also Enacted That no Pattent of Land shall hereafter pass upon pretence that the Land is deserted for want of Planting within the time of three years unless proof thereof be made before the Governor and Council and an Order obtained from them for the Pattenting thereof neither shall the first Petitioner for any
For Coppying the Acts of every Assembly 0300 For the whole body of the Acts writing 0300 For attesting Act of Assembly Coppying Answer and Replies CXXXVIII Interpreters made for the Country WHereas Colonel John Flood hath long and faithfully served this Countrey in the Office of an Interpreter and being now deceased It is Enacted That Thomas Flood Son to the said Colonel John Flood shall be received in the place of his Father and that Henry Newcombe be likewise made Interpreter for the Norwood This is a true Copy of the Acts of Assembly now in force and agreeth with the Original in the Records Teste Henr e Randolph Cl. Assem FINIS The Title and Number of the Acts in order as they are PRINTED Act. 1. CHurch to be built or Chappel of Ease Page 2 Act. 2. Vestries appointed Page 3 Act. 3. Glebes to be laid out ibid. Act. 4. Ministers to be Inducted ibid. Act. 5. Ministers to provide Readers 31. 1661. Page 4 Act. 6. Liturgy to be read ibid. Act. 7. Church Catechism ibid. Act. 8. Ministers to Preach weekly Page 5 Act. 9. Sundayes not to be prophaned ibid. Act. 10. The 30 th of January to be kept a Fast Page 6 Act. 11. The 29 th of May to be kept holy ibid. Act. 12. None to be Married but by Ministers nor by them but by Licence or Publishing the Banes ibid. Act. 13. Church-wardens to make Presentment Page 7 Act. 14 Burial of Servants or others privately Prohibited ibid. Act. 15. Church-wardens to keep the Church in Repair and provide Ornaments Page 8 Act. 16. Registers to be kept by the Ministers or Readers ibid. Act. 17. Licences for Marriage how to issue Page 9 Act. 18. Provision for a Colledge Page 10 Propositions by the Governor Whereas an Antient c. ibid. Act. 19. Courts Page 11 Act. 20. Actions to be Proportioned Page 13 Act. 21. Courts to sit from Eight to Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon from One to Three after Noon ibid. Act. 22. The Plaintiff to file his Declaration three days before the day of hearing Page 14 Act. 23. Adjournment to the two last days for Determination of References by Avisare Volumus or Action entred in Court time ibid. Act. 24. Criminal Causes to be tryed at the General-Courts Page 15 Act. 25. The Governor and two of the Council to go the Circuit Page 16 Act. 26. Appeals how to be made ibid. Act. 27. Amerciaments in the General-Courts Page 17 Act. 28. Subpaena's to be issued by the Clerk Page 18 Act. 29. Dedimus Potestatem how to issue ibid. Act. 30. Penalties for non-apperance of Evidences Page 19 Act. 31. County-Courts appointed Page 20 Act. 32. No Arrest without entry of Action Page 21 Act. 33. The Defendant to put in his Answer ibid. Act. 34 Form of entring the Court ibid. Act. 35. Court not to take Cognizance of any thing under two hundred pounds of Tobacco Page 22 Act. 36. Private Courts prohibited ibid. Act. 37. Tryals by Juries Page 23 Act. 38. Grand-Juries to present Offenders ibid. Act. 39. Pillories to be erected in each County Page 24 Act. 40. Fines to be disposed of by the Assembly ibid. Act. 41. Supersedeas by whom and how grantable Page 25 Act. 42. Prisons to be built in each County ibid. Act. 43. Dwellers within the Rules of any Prison not to have the benefit thereof Page 26 Act. 44. Sheriff to be chosen in the Commission ibid. Act. 45. Sheriffs not making return Page 27 Act. 46. Sheriffs to take Bail ibid. Act. 47. Non est inventus Page 28 Act. 48. Apprizement of Goods ibid. Act. 49. No Commissioner Clerk or Sheriff to be Atturnies in the Court where they Officiate Page 29 Act. 50. Publication of Writs for Election of Burgesses Page 30 Act. 51. Publique Levies to be first paid ibid. Act. 52. The Sheriff upon the instance of the Treasurer or his Deputy to Collect the Quit-Rents Page 31 Act. 53. List of Tithables how to be taken ibid. Act. 54. What Persons are Tithable Page 32 Act. 55. Counsellours and ten persons to be exempted out of the Levy ibid. Act. 56. Artificers not planting Tobacco to be freed from paying Levy ibid. Act. 57. Counsellour to raise a Levy Page 33 Act. 58. No Arrests to be made on Sabbath-dayes ibid. Act. 59. Reward for killing of Wolves Page 34 Act. 60. Commissioners to take Security of Sheriffs ibid. Act. 61. Judgment before Commissioners Page 35 Act. 62. Persons removing into the Bay ibid. Act. 63. English Weights and Measures Page 36 Act. 64. County-Courts to grant Probates and Administration Page 37 Act. 65. Administrations to whom to be granted ibid. Act. 66. Concerning Orphans Page 38 Act. 67. Orphans Land not to be Aliened Page 40 Act. 68. Grants of Land ibid. Act. 69. Deserted Land Page 41 Act. 70. Seating upon others Dividens ibid. Act. 71. Not to Shoot or Range upon other mens Lands Page 42 Act. 72. Lands five years in possession ibid. Act. 73. Against fraudulent Conveyances Page 43 Act. 74. Quit-Rents how to be paid Page 44 Act. 75. Surveyors of Land ibid. Act. 76. Land to be plainly Marked and Bâ—â—nded Page 45 Act. 77. What Fences shall be sufficient ibid. Act. 78. Bounds of Lands to be every four years renewed by the view of Neighbourhood Page 46 Act. 79. Surveyors for High-wayes Page 47 Act. 80. Tobacco when to be demanded Page 48 Act. 81. Judgments and Specialties how long pleadable ibid. Act. 82. Atturnies for business out of England Page 49 Act. 83. Burgesses ibid. Act. 84. Burgesses Ascertained Page 50 Act. 85. Burgesses charges to be ascertained ibid. Act. 86. Burgesses to appear upon the day ibid. Act. 87. Burgesses not to be Arrested Page 51 Act. 88. No Order to contradict an Act ibid. Act. 89. Assemblies to enquire after the breach of Laws Page 52 Act. 90. Publique Letters how to be conveyed ibid. Act. 91. Divulgers of false News Page 53 Act. 92. Chirurgions Accompts Regulated ibid. Act. 93. Chirurgions Accompts pleadable after the decease of the party Page 54 Act. 94. Discounts to be made in Courts ibid. Act. 95. Accompts against dead mens Estates ibid. Act. 96. Ballancing Accompts of deceased persons Page 55 Act. 97. Ordinary-Keepers how to sell ibid. Act. 98. Servants how long to serve Page 56 Act. 99. Against Secret Marriage Page 57 Act. 100. Against Fornication ibid. Act. 101. Hired Servants Page 58 Act. 102. Run-awayes Page 59 Act. 103. Cruelty of Masters Prohibited Page 60 Act. 104. Against unruly Servants ibid Act. 105. Against Trading with Servants Page 61 Act. 106. No Tobacco to be planted after the tenth of July ibid. Act. 107. No Seconds or Slips ibid. Act. 108. Improvement of Staple-Commodities Page 62 Act. 109. Act for Mulbery-Trees Page 63 Act. 110. Encouragement to build Vessels ibid. Act. 111. Tan-houses to be erected Page 64 Act. 112. Two Acres of Corn for each Tithable ibid. Act. 113. Stray Horses Page 65 Act. 214. Free Trade ibid. Act. 115. Exportation of Hides Page 66 Act. 116. Exportation of Money Page 66 Act. 117. Size of Virginia Hogsheads ibid. Act. 118. Against private taking away Boats Page 67 Act. 119. Against Shooting ibid. Act. 120. Supply of Ammunition ibid. Act. 121. Against exacting-Millers Page 68 Act. 122. Against Exportation of English Goods ibid. Act. 123. No Mares or Sheep to be transported Page 69 Act. 124. Against selling of Rum but in places appâ—inted ibid. Act. 125. Against Stealing of Hogs ibid. Act. 126. Masters of Ships to provide four Moneths Provision Page 70 Act. 127. Concerning Passes ibid. Act. 128. Imposition of two shillings per Hogshead Page 71 Act. 129. Every Inhabitant in Northumberland and Westmerland Counties to give an Accompt how many Hogsheads of Tobacco they made and to whom disposed Page 72 Act. 130. Payment of Fort-Duties in Accomake c. Page 73 Act. 131. Ten shillings per Hogshead ibid. Act. 132. Castle-Duties to be paid Page 74 Act. 133. Ships to come up to James-City ibid. Act. 134. Priviledge of Virginia-Owners Page 75 Act. 135. A Publique Notary appointed ibid. Act. 136. Acts concerning the Indians Page 76 77 78 79 Act. 137. Clerks fees to be paid Page 80 The Secretaries Fees ibid. County-Court Clerks Fees Page 81 The Sheriffs Fees ibid. The Clerk of the Assemblies Fees Page 82 Act. 138. Interpreters made for the Countrey Page 82 FINIS