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citizens, and to transfer their rights, Executive may apprehend and fecure, and compel to depart the ftate fufpicious perfons fubjects of foreign ftates in cafe of war, 59 FORFEITURE.

No perfons attainted, convicted, or outlawed
of treafon, felony, &c. to forfeit their eftate, 106
FORGERIES.

Penalty on perfons forging letters or privy
tokens in others' names, and thereby, ob.
taining another's money or goods,
Felony to counterfeit current coin, to make
or país bafe coin, or to forge any deed, will,
or other writing for payment of money,
or to utter as true any fuch forged writ-
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249 320 to forge any certificate or warrant if fued under the authority of the United States or of this flate,

to forge the ftamp or receipt of any infpector of Bour, hemp, or tobacco,

to fteal or forge any land warrant, or caufe to be prefented to the register of the land-office for exchange, or to the furveyor for execution; to counterfeit the feal of the register of the land-office, To fleal or take by robbery any loan-office certificate of the United States, or any of them, or any warrant of the governor, or auditor, for payment of money, Punishment of perfons forging any writing to emancipate the flaves of another, Ferfons forging a certificate for the purpofe of obtaining a duplicate tobacco note, to be punished as in cafe of perjury, FORNICATION-SEE ADULTERY AND

FORNICATION.

FORTHCOMING BONDS.

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May be given by the owner of property under execution,

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Faulty and quafhed therefor, officer liable for darages,

Proceedings on the bond when forfeited, No fecurity to be taken upon executions if fued on judgments obtained upon fuch bonds,

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All difpofitions of lands of which a parte dien

Penalty on officers for not returning them, Cofts for giving notices on, to be taxed in the

bill of cofts,

FOWLING SEE HUNTING. FRAUDS AND PERJURIES. No agacement, to be bound for another, if an executor, in confideration of marriage, for fale of lands, Sc. to be binding, unless to be performed within one year, or unless it he in writing,

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Gifts, grants, and conveyances of lands or goods void as to creditors, if fraudulently intended to foreftall their debts, Conveyances without valuable confideration" fraudulent unlefs duly recorded, No pretended loan of goods and chattels to operate against creditors, unless recorded, FRAUDULENT DEVISES.

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Penalty for employing them without fuch certificate,

Refiding in the county, to be registered with the clerks of the county courts, and a certificate thereof granted them,

Magiftrates, to commit thofe, who fail to procure fuch certificate,

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FRIVOLOUS AND VEXATIOUS SUITS. When plaintiffs in actions of affault and battery and flander, fhall not recover any colls, FRUIT TREES.

Reward for taking up beats known to have barked fruit trees,

GAMING.

Promifes, fecurities, conveyances, &c for gaming debts, or for repaying money lent for fuch uies, void, Real or perfonal eftate under any lien or in cumbrance for gaming debts thal! devolve to the next heir as if the leffor, bargainor, vendor or mortgagor had died intellate, When and how any perfon lofing 7 dollars or more at one fitting may recover the fame,

not fuing within three months, any other perfon may recover it, and treble the value,

Winner may be compelled by bi!! in chancery to discover money won, &c. difcovering and re paying the money, difcharged from the penalty, Penalty for gaming at ordinaries and other public places,

for lofing or winning more than 20 dollars, in 24 hours, Gamefters having no vifible eftate, or means of fupporting themselves, to be bound to their good behaviour for a year, and play. ing within the year to forfeit their recognizance,

Penalty on perfons affaulting or challenging others on account of money won at gaming, Perfons who win by cheating to fortest five times the value of the money, &c. won, be deemed infamous, and punished as in cafes et perjury, Keepers of A B C or E O tables, or faro banks, or like tables or banks, to be deemed vagrants, and their tables deftroyed, Money exhibited for the purpofe of gaming, liable to feizure,

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Billiard tables may be feized and publicly burnt,

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The executive in certain cafes may, by proclamation, change the time and place of holding the court,

Caules not to be difcontinued if the court is not held at a ufual term,

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Penalty for gaming, and for oppofing the feizure of money exhibited for the purpole of,

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Lawyers' fee of 20 dollars, to be taxed in the
bill of cofts for judgments obtained for
breach of any of the laws against gaming, 373
Fines incurred for gaming, fhall not be remit-
ted by the executive,
Acts against gaming to be given in charge to
grand juries by the judges of the fuperior
and inferior courts,

GAMESTERS. SEE GAMING.
GAOLS SEE JAILS PRISONS.
GARNISHLES.

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Proceedings against them on attachments.
againft abfconding debtors,
GENERAL ASSEMBLY-SEE ASSEMBLY.
GENERAL COURT.

Their duty in cafes of riots. routs. or unlaw

Judges of, may adjourn the court to the fucceeding term it they cannot fit with fafety at the piace appointed,

May be directed by the executive to be held in other buildings when thofe appointed by law are deftroyed,

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Salary of the clerk of for ex officio fervices, 314 381 Vacancy in the office of the clerk of, during

vacation, how to be fupplied,

GENERAL FUND,

How conflituted,

GENERAL GOVERNMENT.

Officers of, incapable of holding offices under this commonwealth,

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Cefiion of ten miles fquare for the feat, of, by

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Punishment of perfons receiving or obtaining goods in other people's names by counterfeit letters or privy tokens,

GOODS AND CHATTELS.

Conveyances of, to defraud creditors or purchafers void as to them, Conveyances of, on confideration, not deemed valuable in law to be deemed fraudulent as to creditors or purchafers, unless duly recorded, or unless the poffeffion be with the donee,

Remaining five years in poffeffion, shall be deemed, as to creditors and purchafers, the abfolute property of the poffeffor, notwithstanding any pretended loan,

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May by proclamation direct the adjournment of courts to other than their ufual places of feffion in certain cales,

To convey Gofport to the United States,
GRAND JURIES

To be fummoned for the general and diffrict courts, and quarter feflions of inferior

courts,

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A fufficient number of jurors not attending, by-ftanders may be iwon on, Freeholders fummoned on, and not attending, fineable,

Any member of, after being fworn, not attending, a by-ftander may be fworn in his stead,

Privileged from arreft: who incapable to ferve

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Acts against gaming to be given in charge to

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Acts concerning flaves, free negroes and ma lattoes, to be given in charge to them, GRANTEES OF LANDS To have the fame right of entry and diftrefs for non-payment of rent as their grantors had,

GRANTS,

To run in the name of the Commonwealth, Of lands or goods to defraud creditors, void. as to them,

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GUARDIANS,

The governor to convey Gofport to the Uni

ted States on certain conditions,

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GOVERNMENT.

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Failing to account when ordered, attachments may be iffued, against them, Actions of account may be brought against them, their executors or administrators, Their executors or administrators to pay their teftators' debts due to their wards' eftates before any others,

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Fathers may by deed or will appoint guardians to their infant children, Courts may controul guardians and dete:mine difputes between them and their wards,

may, when neceffary, require fecurity of them, compel uppi mental fecerity, o cilplace them for agant abufe of truft

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or for failing to give fecurity, 172 173 321 Failing to take fecurity of guardians appointed by them, refponible to the wards, Ifa guardian fails to give fecurity, a curator may be appointed, Guardians or curators to deliver in inventories of the wards' eftates, Annual accounts to be rendered by them to the courts, or more frequent if required: to be examined, and, if approved, recorded: if excepted to, when and how to be done, 172 321 Proceedings against them for failing to render inventories and accounts, Penalty on juices failing to proceed against them,

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Balance due to guardians for disbursements to be debited in the account of the enfuing year, or paid out of the infants' perfonal eftate, to be fold by order of the court for that purpose,

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Duty of officers, to whom writs of are directed as to conveying prifoners before the proper judge or judges, Writs of, by whom to be figned, how they may be obtained; before whom returnable, 232 How prifoners when brought before the judges may be difcharged, 232 When writs of shall not be granted in vacation, 232 Penalty on the officer for difobeying the writ, 232 No perfon to be again committed for the fame caufe after difcharge on habeas corpus, By whom writs of babeas corpus may be granted,

Penalty on a judge refufing writ of, on proper application,

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How they may obtain licenfe,

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Licenses to be recorded,

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Duty of clerks relative to their licenfes, HEIR AT LAW.

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Balance in favor of a ward to be placed out at intereft, or the guardian retaining it to pay inter, 13322 How securities of a guardian, in danger of faffering by him, may be relieved, How deeds, leafes, &c. for their wards may be made, taken, executed, or furrendered by them, • 173 322 Tedamentary guardians to declare in court their acceptance of the guardianship, and give bond and fecurity before exerciling any authority over their wards, unless it is otherwile directed by the will,

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Aliening lands defcended to him liable to creditors to the value of the land, May plead reins per difcent; if found against him liable to the value defcended, Confeffing to the action without ftating the affets defcended, or upon demurrer, or nibil dicit, no writ of enquiry of the value, but judgment for the debt and damages, If one be found heir in one county and another in another by inquifition, the party grieved may have his monftrans de droit, How an heir within age fhall be relieved, who has been prejudiced by the endowment of the widow,

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HABEAS CORPUS.

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HIGH CRIME AND MISDEMEANOR To attempt to establish a feparate govern

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manded, thall not be again removed before final judgment,

HIGHWAYS.

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