OBLIGATIONS.

1. Assignees of, not affected, in their rights, by act of 19th January, 1807, s. 3, p. 136.

2. How to be taken from clerks of superior courts of law, s. 12, p. 152.

BOUNDARY LINE.

1. Between the state of Virginia and Tennessee, p. 9, 10, 11.

2. Titles to lands granted by the states of North Carolina and Tennessee falling within the limits of Virginia, secured, s. 7, p. 11.

3. Acts of public officers confirmed, s. 8, p. 11.

BOUNDS of the Prison.

See PRISON RULES.

BRANCH BANKS.

1. Of Virginia, where established, p. 67.

2. When and how directors chosen for, s. 5, p. 63.

3. One or more, of the United States, authorised in this state, App. No. IX. p. (126.)

BREACHES, of duty and good order.

1. Committed by convicts, in penitentiary, how punishable, s. 2, p. 140. BRIDGES.

1. Court to make no order for erection of, unless a majority of the acting justices be present, or shall have been previously summoned, s. 1, p. 94, 95. BRIGADES-See MILITIA, No. 1.

BRIGADIER GENERALS.
See MILITIA, No. 5.

BRIGADE INSPECTOR.
See MILITIA, No. 5, 6.

BRITISH DEBTS.

1. State declared not to be liable for those paid into the loan office; further than the value, when reduced by the scale of depreciation, App. No. IX. p. (94.)

BRITISH STATUTES.

1. Part of an ordinance of convention, declaring them to be in force, repealed, under certain restrictions, App. No. IX. p. (105,) (108,) (112,) (113.)

BUGLE HORNS.

See MILITIA, No. 40.

BUILDINGS.

See PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

BURGLARY.

4. Slave, burning or setting fire to any barn, stable, corn house, or other house, or advising, &c. any slave, free negro, or mulatto, to commit said offences, if the amount of the burning be of the value of ten dollars, punishable with death, s. 1, p. 166.

5. How a slave punishable for burning or setting fire to a stack or cock of wheat, barley, oats, corn or other grain, or any stack or cock of hay, straw or fodder, or advising, &c. as above, s. 2, p. 166, 167.

CARTOUCH, CARTRIDGE

BOXES.

1. To be procured by the executive App. No. IX. p. (124.)

2. How to be stamped, s. 57, p. 56. 3. Penalty for loss of, s, 9, p. 142. CASHIERING, of militia officers. 1. Sentence of a court martial may extend to, s. 27, p. 49.

CASHIERS, of the bank of Virginia. 1. How chosen, and compensation fixed, s. 7, p. 64.

2. To give bond with security, p. 65, art, 7.

3. Notes to be countersigned by principal cashier, p. 66, art. 13.

4. Not to carry on any other business than that of the bank, p. 67, art. 18.

1. Cause removed from inferior court to district court by habeas corpus or certiorari, to bep laced in the same situation in which it stood in the inferior court, when the writ was delivered, p. 135.

2. District court to proceed to final judgment without new pleadings, unless they would have been proper, if the cause had remained in the inferior court, ibid.

3. Will lie and may be had from judgments of circuit courts in the same manner, and to the same jurisdictions as from judgments of district courts as at present, s. 7, p. 154.

4. To remove proceedings on a forcible entry and detainer, or for any cause, except the removal of a cause from an inferior court, may be granted by a judge of the circuit court in vacation, without notice, s. 12, p. 155.

Sve BILL in Chancery. CHANCERY courts of, COMMISSIONERS IN CHANCERY. 1. Clerks of cointy and corporation courts to keep separate rule and court dockets for chancery causes, s. 2, p. 85.

2. No appeal to be granted in any cause in chancery, until a final decree, unless where the court in which the cause is depending, may think it necessary to p: event a change of property under an interlocutory decree, and before the final decree can be pronounced, s. 2, p. 129.

3. In chancery causes, publication may be ordered against absent defendants in any newspaper, s. 5, p. 129.

CHANCERY, Courts of

1. May award interest, on final decrees, till paid, p. 29.

2. District courts of chancery, to award damages on affirmance of an appeal, p.:29.

3. Injunctions wholly dissolved, when the bill to be dismissed; and dissolved wholly or in part, damages to be awarded, p. 29, 30,

4. Clerks of superior courts of, to certify dissolution of injunctions and time of granting and dissolving it, p. 30,

July term of Staunton chancery district court changed, s, 6, p. 30.

5. Costs of notice in district courts of, to be taxed, s. 3, p. 82.

6. In injunctions, and bills to foreclose mortgages, clerks may send subpænas out of the county or corporation, s. 4, p. 82, 83.

7. Manner of proceeding in chancery district courts, where the chancellors are interested in a cause, p. 107.

8. How injunctions and writs of ne exeat may be obtained, pending a vacancy in the office of a judge of a chancery district court, s. 2, p. 107,

9. Judges of the superior courts of, may direct accounts to be taken in vacation; and instruct commissioners on doubtful points, s. 1, p. 128.

10. Not to hear arguments of counsel on such points, except by consent of parties, ibid.

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11. Not to grant appeals, till a final decree, unless thought necessary by such court, to prevent a change of property, s. 2, p. 129.

12. When record of an appeal from an inferior to a superior court of chancery shall be sent up, or the appeal be dismissed, unless good cause be shewn, s. 3, p. 129,

13. Defendant, in superior court of, to file his answer within 3 months, after bill filed, and subpoena executed, or bill be taken for confessed, s. 4, p. 129.

14. May direct publication against absent defendants, in any newspaper printed in this commonwealth, s. 5, p. 129,

15. Terms of Richmond chancery district court, in May and September, changed (s. 6, p. 129.) The whole terms again altered, p. 146.

16. Commissioners' fees, for copies of reports; to be taxed in bill of costs; penalty for exacting fees improperly, s. 7, p. 129, 130.

17. Seals for each of the superior courts of, to be procured by the execu tive, s. 4, p. 146.

18. Clerks of chancery district courts, allowed the same fees for issuing execu tions, and taxing damages and costs on appeals, as clerks of common law district courts, for similar services, s. 8, p. 130.

19. Commissioners appointed by, to sell property, not to proceed till it is va lued, s. 2, p. 156.

20. Not to sell for less than three, fourths of the value of the property as estimated by the valuers, ibid.

21. Valuation,how to be entered, ibid. 22. Allowance to commissioners, ibid. 23. Property to be valued in reference to 1st December, 1807, s. 4, p, 156. CHARITABLE DONATIONS. 1. Where they have been made, subject to the direction of vestries, and such vestries are extinct, the overseers of the poor to perform the duties and exercise the powers granted to the vestries, s. 1, P. 103.

CHARTER.

1. Of the bank of Virginia, its limi mitation, s. 3, p. 62.

2. Penalty for offering in payment bank notes, emitted by a company hays ing no charter, p. 79.

5. Jurisdiction of said courts the same in criminal and civil cases as the district courts of law, s. 2, p. 151.

6. Practice and proceedings to be the same as now exist for the regulation of the district courts of law, s. 3, p. 151.

7. The same right of appeal which is now allowed from the county and corporation courts to the district courts of law, shall still be had to the superior courts of law, s. 4, p. 151.

8. The right of appeal to be exercised as heretofore in the district courts, s. 5, p. 151.

9. Process issuing under the law as heretofore, and which would have been returned to the district courts, shall be returned to the superior court of the county in which the process may issue, 3. 4, p. 151.

10. Sheriffs of counties to act as sheriffs of the superior courts holden in their counties, and shall summon grand juries as for the district courts, s. 6, p. 151.

11. Also shall do and perform all duties appertaining to sheriffs attending district courts, under the law as at present, ibid.

12. Prosecutor for the commonwealth

to be appointed by the judge; his com pensation, s. 6, p. 151.

13. All officers' fees the same in the superior courts of law, as are allowed for similar services in the district courts, s. 7, p. 151.

14. Causes depending in the district courts, how to be arranged by the clerks thereof, and the papers transmitted to the clerks of superior courts of law; judge, s. 8, p. 151, 152. clerks to be compensated therefor by the

15. Quarterly courts of certain coun.. ties changed, s. 9, p. 152,

16. General court to consist of twelve judges, s. 10, p. 152.

17. As soon as two additional judges appointed, the executive to allot one judge to each circuit, who shall perpetually hold a court in that circuit, s. 11, p. 152.

18. A judge appointed to supply a vacancy, to reside in the circuit to which

appointed, s. 11, p. 152.

19. Each judge to appoint a clerk for each court, except that in which a district court may have been holden; the clerk whereof shall be clerk of the superior court of that county, s. 12, p. 152.

20. Appointment of clerk to be certified by the judges to the several county courts, who shall take such bond and administer such oaths as heretofore required of clerks of district courts, s. 12, P. 152.

21. Clerks may appoint deputies; how qualified; their power and duty, s. 13, p. 152.

21. Each judge may change the venue within his circuit, for good cause shewn at bar; and the judges of the general court may change the venue from circuit to circuit, s. 14, p. 152.

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22. Judgments of district courts, unexecuted to be executed by superior courts of law--Judgments of court of appeals, how to be certified; powers and duty of superior courts of law and clerks in relation to such judgments the same as those of district courts, and their clerks, 5. 15, p. 153.

23. Causes in which the venue has been changed by the general court, and untried, to be tried in superior court of

that county to which the same shall have been removed, s. 16, 153.

24. Superior courts of law of those counties in which district courts holden, have jurisdiction to try causes remaining on the docket of the district court, and not transmitted, &c. s. 16, p. 153.

25. Papers to be certified by clerks of district courts, to clerks of superior courts of law, by the 1st of March 1809; who are to prepare dockets, s. 17, p. 153.

25. Clerks of district courts to issue writs or process as usual, till 1st of March 1809; but such as would have been returnable to district courts, to be returned by sheriffs and coroners to their several superior courts, s. 18, p. 153.

27. Town and borough court of Petersburg, to be under the jurisdiction of the superior court of Dinwiddie-City, and borough court of Williamsburg under that of James City, and clerk of district court of Williamsburg to be clerk of last mentioned superior court, s. 19, p. 153.

28. All acts in force in respect to the district courts, their clerks and officers, declared to be in force as to the superior courts of law; and their powers, duties and rules of proceeding to be the same, s. 20, p. 153;

Judges to make allowances to clerks, sheriffs and jailors for public services, s. 1, p. 154.

29. In future venire men net entitled to any compensation, s. 2, p. 154..

30. Witnesses in all cases entitled to the same allowances, as for attending the county courts, ibid.

31. Not more than two guards to be summoned by a sheriff to assist in the conveyance of a convict to the penitentiary, s. 3, p. 154:

32. Each judge of general court, before he acts as judge of circuit court, to take an oath; before whom, and how certified and recorded, s. 4, p. 154.

33. Circuit court, for county of Henrico, to be held at the capitol in Richmond; and that of James City, at capitol in Williamsburg, s. 5, p. 154.

34. Judge not attending on the first day of a court, to stand adjourned from day to day, till four o'clock in the afternoon of the third day, s. 6, p. 154.

85. Court not sitting in a term, or net continuing to sit the whole term, or not having heard all matters ready for decision, all suits, &c. to stand continued to succeeding term, s. 6, p. 154.

36. No discontinuance, if, from any cause, the court shall not sit on any day in the term, after opened; but as soon as the cause removed, the court to proceed, s. 6, p. 154.

37. Appeals, writs of error, superse deas and certiorari shall lie and be had from the judgments of the circuit courts, in the same manner, and to the same jurisdictions as from the judgments of the district courts, s. 7, p. 154.

38. Deeds, wills and other instruments partly proved, in any district court, may be fully proved and recorded, in the su-. perior court of the same county in which such deeds, wills, and other instruments shall have been in part proved, s. 8, p..

155.

39. Superior court of law holden at Richmond to possess all the special powers now exercised by the district court holden in that city, s. 9, p. 155.

40. How to proceed when a judge is interested in a cause, s. 10, p. 155.

41. Certiorari to remove proceedings. on a forcible entry and detainer, or for any other purpose, except the removal of a suit from an inferior court, may hereafter be granted in vacation, and without notice, by any judge of a circuit court, s. 12, p. 155.

CLASSIFICATION.

1. Of counties, for the purpose of appointing commissioners of revenue, s. 1, p. 81.

2. Alteration as to certain counties, p. 102,

CLERKS--See CLERKS OF COURTS. 1. Clerk of accounts in the auditor's office, his salary raised, p. 1. 2. Of the Penitentiary, his salary, s. 1, p. 25, and s. 1, p. 71.

-----, to obey the rules, &c. of the executive--See PENITENTIARY, No. 37.

3. Under clerks in the register's of fice, their salaries, s. 1, p. 25, and s. p. 71.