PER Penal Laws. Marder of the first degree, only, punished with death, What shall be deemed murder of the first and second dedegree: punishment of petit treafon, high treafon, arfon, rape, fodomy and murder in the fecond degree, 12. Punithment of robbery or burglary: horfe stealing, grand and petit larceny, &c. 13. Punishment for counterfeiting coin, for maiming or disfi guring, and for man flaughter, 14. Involuntary man flaughter: benefit of clergy abolished: ju. ry to determine the time of confinement: what offences pun. ished as formerly: eftates of convicts liable for the expence of profecution, Clerk to certify cofts: commiflioners to fix the feat of jail and penitentiary house, &c. governor to fill vacancy, if any happen, 16. Choice of feat to be made, and when: fubfcriptions may be recovered in a fummary way: directors to be appointed, and their duty, 17. Dimension of the cells: 5000 dollars appropriated: males and females kept apart: when and how convicts removed from diftrict jails, 18. Convicts to be confined to folitary cells: nature of their offence to be tranfmitted to the infpectors: punishment on a fecond conviction, 19. What perfons may avail themselves of this act : challenges as heretofore: provifione againft contagion: treatment of convicts, Hours of labor : materials how procured, 20. 21. Cloathing provided: accounts kept, examined by infpectors: for what convicts to be charged, 22. How credited: who may vifit them: apartments bow cleanfed: infimary provided, 23. Convicts how punished for mifbehaviour: keeper how ap pointed, Deputies and inspectors appointed: their duty, 24. 25. To make rules and regulations: punishment of keeper for efcapes: efcapes how punished: fpirituous liquors prohibit ed: flaves excluded, Sufpenfion of penal laws, Permanent Revenue. 25. 458. Longer time given to enter lands: non refident's lands improperly claffed, how rectified: taxes reduced one third, 40. Billiard tables how lifted: penalty on using them before entered: how recovered and applied, 4T. In what cafes, and how collectors of taxes to be appointed, Lands to be claffed articles taxed: court to appoint com PER : PAGE 391 miffioners: their oath, Commiffioners to have districts allotted them their duty Jifts of property taken on oath: oaths to be adminiftered by the commiffioners, 392. In what manner lifts to be made out: to be delivered to the clerk of the county court, and a duplicate to the auditor: lands once lifted not to be lifted again by the fame owner, 393. Clerks to keep books of transfer, in which all property transferred is to be charged to the new owner: emigrants in thofe years in which no commiflioners are appointed, to lift their property with the clerk: penalty on failure: clerk to deliver lifts to the theriff and auditor: and to a new theriff a copy of the commiffioners' books, 394. Clerk's fee and allowance for his fervices: penalty on per fons refafing, or giving in fraudulent lifts, 395. Proceedings to recover penalty: how collected and accounted for any perfon knowing of a falfe lift, to inform the court proceedings thereon: penalty on the clerk and com mithioners failing in their duty, 296. Lifts of infolvents, &c. to be returned to court heriff to have credit therefor: clerk to tranfmit to auditor the amount of fines: fheriff to collect taxes; when he may diitrain, apd on what property, &c. 397. Sheriff to pay money into the treafuey: penalty for failure how recovered: to have bond and fecurity; bond nor void on the first recovery: failing to give bond, a collector to be appointed, 398. How proprietors of land to enter them penalty on failpre: how lands to be rated, 399. How errors in lifts corrected: how non-refidents to enter lands: taxes to be paid to treasurer, 400. Auditor to keep book of transfers for non-residents: heriff to account for taxes of non-refidents: credits for the years 1792 and 1793, &c. 401. Provifion for tenants: for taxes paid on land loft or relinquifhed, or where the fame land is twice paid for in the fame year, 402. How lands fold and conveyed for the payment of taxes: the owner may direct what part fhall be fold: proceedings when land lies in another county, 403. Proceedings when land will not fell: fheriff not to purchafe auditor to furnish fheriff with non-refidents' accounts lands ceded to Indians not liable to tax or forfeiture, 404. Remedy of her iff against deputy: tax on town lots: on pedlars on law process, 405. Tax on deeds and county feal: clerks to collect and account for the fame; heriff to deliver a lift of taxable property to the owner, 406 RUN PAGR To pay money into the treasury: take receipt and deliver Peremptory Challenge. Extended to all criminal cafes, except treafon, Plats and Certificates. When to be returned to the register, Poor. Who may fue out writs without paying therefor, Prifoners. 407. 455. 460. 39. 75. Jailors to receive prifoners of the United States: penalty To be erected and kept in repair in each county, Rules and bounds to be laid off, What shall be deemed a fufficient jail, Public Advertisements. In what papers they may be published, Public Roads. 353. 286. 270. 213 214. 122. 458. 371. Powers of county courts to lay out new ones: to fummon 372. How furveyor appointed: his duty: who to work on 373. What repairs to be made, of what materials and how, 374- 375. ties, Profecutions for penalties when to commence, Right. See writs. Right of Entry.-See entry. Reward for apprehending: may be committed to prifon; 7. when he may be fold; reward for apprehending, how recovered, law, Fees to jailor, and penalty for taking more than allowed by Salaries. 8. When falaries of the officers of government fhall commence, 73. Salaries of different officers: auditor to iffue his warrant therefor allowance to juftices of quarter feflion courts, 74. Salt and falt-petre works. To be enclofed: penalty for failure, Securities. Their remedy against the principal, 63. 37. Remedy of one fecurity againit another fecurity not to fuffer judgment by default, Seminaries of Learning. 38. Certain feminaries endowed: their lands to be surveyed, and plats and certificates returned, 100. Lands vested in trustees, and free from taxes: power of trustees: how feminary lands may be difpofed of, Lands allowed for future approppriations, Servants, ΙΟΙ. 102. What fervants fhall fpecially perform their contracts: mafter's duty contracts for services how to be affigned, : 8. Lazy and diforderly fervants may be punished: courts to hear complaints: contracts with fervants void fecured in their property: fick or lame not to be difcharged: who may have white fervants, 9. Punishment of fervants for breaches of the penal laws: when free shall have a certificate: penalty for harboring without, or for ùfing forged certificates, Settlers. Who shall be entitled to land for fettling on it, The quantity: claim to be laid in price of the land: when forfeited: how claims to be entered, 85. Commiflioners to be appointed: their power and duty: "priority of fettlement, how determined, : 86. What deemed an improvement: commiffioners to appoint a clerk his duty: the tax on each certificate: fheriff to attend commiffioners, \ 87. Allowance to commiffioners and clerk: military entries to be procured, and how how fettlement forfeited: no perfon to have more than one in his own right, 88. Further time to fettlers to pay the confideration money: to enter certificates: provifion for thofe fettled on military lands: regulations therein, 89. SLA Sheriffs. RAGE Proceedings against delinquent sheriffs: duty of the audi tor, Vacancy of theriff, how filled, 48. 342. Penalty on refufal to act, except he cannot give fecurity; to give two bonds, payable to the governor, &c. 343. Perfon injured, may bring fuit: bond not void on the fift recovery: motion on the bonds fufficient; sheriff to take the oath of fidelity: his oath of office, &c. 344. Office vacant if he refides out of the county: to continue in office until he compleats his collection: may diftrain for taxes: liable for fees put into his hands for collection, 345. Who ineligible to theriff's office; duty of theriff, and penalty on failing in what cafes to make a return of not found,'346. Sheriff's prohibited to take certain bonds, &c. what contracts void to endorfe on execution, the time of receiving it, 347Further duties may diftrain for taxes, &c. penalty on failing to levy execution on behalf of the commonwealth, or ma king falfe return, 348. Provifion where a fheriff goes out of office before an execution is fatisfied: the deputy to add the name of the principal, 349. After notice of a motion, compliance with duty no bar: on executions on property incumbered, the incumbrance to be fully stated in the return: penalty on an attempt to injure the fale of goods: clerks to deliver fee bills to fheriffs, and at what time, 350. Surveyors, clerks and fheriffs fees, how collected and diftrained for, 351. When theriffs to account for fees; liable to motion therefor: remedy when made liable by his deputy: no fecurity on execution against him, 352. His goods to be immediately fold: to deliver prifoners to his fucceffor: efcapes, with proceedings thereon, 353. When sheriff liable for escapes, perfon aiding, liable: guards to be impreffed: penalty on theriff failing to attend to fettle his accounts, Slaves, Negroes, Mulattoes and Indians. Who shall be deemed flaves, 354. 105. In what cafes flaves may be witneffes: not to go from home without a pafs; on going from home without, may be whip. ped: in what cafes may carry arms, 106. No perfon to permit a flave to remain more than four hours on his plantation, without leave from his owner, &c. punishment of free perfons keeping company with, or harboring flaves, 107. How unlawful meetings of flaves to be fuppreffed: penalty for dealing with a flave punishment of a flave, for lifting his hand against a free perfon, 108. |