To take a falfe oath before the committee of privileges and elections in cafe of a contefted election, Suborners of witneffes how punishable, Perfons guilty of perjury how punishable, The oaths of fuborners, or of perfons guilty of perjury, not to be taken in any court, Perfons fwearing falfely to obtain writs of certiorari, fhall fuffer as for perjury, Perfons winning money or other thing by cheating, to be punished as thofe guilty of perjury, Punishment of negroes, mulattoes, &c. for giving falle teftimony, Sellers or exporters of beef, pork, tar, pitch, or turpentine, fwearing falfely that the barrels fold have been inspected, and that they contain the full quantity, to be deemed guilty of perjury, Perjury to take a falfe oath to obtain a duplicate tobacco note, 402 411 411 414 435 207 21 46 47 47 82 176 178 24 tobacco may be profecuted for by petition, 106 PETIT JURIES. SEE VENIREMEN. Penalty on a juror taking any thing for his verdict, 47 101 How to be fummoned and impannelled for the trial of impeachments, Petit jurors to be fummoned to attend the district and inferior courts; failing, to be fined, Qualifications requifite in petit jurors, and Juries de meditate lingue may be sworn, Sheriff's not to converfe with jurors without leave of the court, How petit jurors are to be challenged on behalf of the commonwealth, and how many may be peremptorily challenged by a prifoner, No juftice of peace who committed a prifoner, or fat on the examining court, to beans of the petit jury, Examiners of pilots appointed and how to be qualified, 239 417 Applying in order to obtain a branch, to be examined, to produce certificates of their honefty and good behaviour, and proof of having ferved an apprenticeship of 5 years, and pay a fee to the examiners, To be arranged into three claffes, To take charge of veffels according to their claffes, Removing out of the flate to be difqualihed, . 268 -to take a falfe oath before a clerk authorized to adminifter it, 239 417 397 PERSONAL ESTATE 239 418 239 418 Who shall fucceed to the perfonal citates of infants dying without bequeathing them, PETERSBURG. 426 Corporation court of Petersburg authorized Penalty on them for acting after removing out of the state, 239 326 418 239 326 418 patrolling of the town, 406 239 418 240 419 420 127 to make certain regulations for the regular PETITION OF RIGHT. Lands efcheated to the commonwealth may be claimed by, PETITIONS. 135 Regulations refpecting petitions from delinquent fieriffs, Any perlen aggrieved by the auditor's difallowing or abating his claim, may petition the high court of chancery at Richmond, or the district court held there, for redrefs, 140 PETITIONS FOR SMALL DEBTS. Mode of proceeding in the county courts for the recovery of debts under 20 dollars, and for the recovery of goods or their value, where it does not exceed zo dollars, dutý voder 20 dollars or 800 lbs. of Apprentices duly qualified may obtain copies of their masters' branches, and may thereafter take charge of veffels, How they may be fufpended and remov ed, To paint on their forefail the name of their boat, and the port to which the belongs, 240 409 418 To keep fufficient boats, 240 418 Penalty on any perfon who fhall act as a pilot without having a branch and boat, 240 418 Half fees allowed to perfons affifting veffels in diftrefs, to be paid by the pilots to whom the veffels are delivered, 240 418 240 419 Not more than four pilots to be in partnership, Mafters of veffels to receive the first pilot that offers below the horie thoe, and to continue hin to their port of discharge, 240 more, 240 240 418 240 419 420 -Penalty on pilots demanding 241 420 241 420 Allowance to them when detained by the veffel not being ready at the time appointed by the master, For each day they attend a veffel at the mafter's request, 241 326 425 Carried to fea by the mafters of veffels to receive the fame wages as the mates thereof, 241 326 420 To carry with them & produce to masters of veffels if required a copy of the acts regulalating pilots and afcertaining their fees, 241 420 Method of collecting their fees, and by whom to be paid, 241 408 409 420 Public printer to deliver the Examiners 100 copies of the acts concerning pilots, to be diftributed amongst the pilots, 241 420 326 417 Previous to obtaining a branch, pilot to give 326.419 age of veffels above feventy tons coming from fea, and on foreign vessels, Any pilot of this ftate may conduct veffels from fea to Hampton road, York river or Mobjack Bay and receive legal fees, 351 418 Their fees increased one fourth except on Potow mac, Coafting veffels not bound to take a pilot, 351 351 Pilots meeting veffels coming from infected places how to act, extra fees in such case, 351 418 419 351 419 408 Their rates of pilotage increased at certain places, Allowance to them when decoyed on board a vellel infected with contagious disease whereby they are compelled to perform 419 Quarantine, 408 for detention of themselves and vef fels, 408 419 Pilots of the state of Maryland under certain reftrictions privileged to pilot vessels in this ftate, When they fhall be entitled to only half fees, 408 408 Fines and penalties upon pilots, increased one half, Allowance for attending veffels with their boats, Branches not to be given to negroes or mulattoes PITCH. Infpection of, established, and regulations concerning, PLANTERS Not to be taxed for felling alt, Iron or Reel, 420 420 420 expenfes of maintaining and curing them when fick, and removing them to be reimbursed by their county, penalty on the overfeers of the poor of the county to which fuch poor belong, for refufing to receive them, How difputes concerning the legal refidence of poor perfons fhall be determined, The overfeers of the poor fhall make monthly returns, of poor orphans, and children whofe parents be not able to fupport them, to the county courts, that fuch may be bound out, Collectors of the poor rates to be appointed by the overfeers of the poor, 248 commiffions for collecting, 182 when they may diftrain for the poor rates, be entered in a book, how a question is to be decided, when their votes are equally divided, they may appoint a clerk, who shall be fubject to penalty for not attending their meetings, annually to fettle their accounts with the county courts under a penalty, County courts may exempt perfons from paying poor rates who are or may be exempt from payment of public taxes, Corporation courts to provide for their own poor, County and corporation courts may provide poor houses, Inhabitants of a corporation not to act as overfeers of the poor of the county, or to vote in elections of them, unless they have freeholds in the county, Penalties and forfeitures accruing under the act providing for the poor, how appropriated, Fines appropriated towards leffening the levies, to be collected and accounted for, in the fame manner as poor rates, No fecurity to be taken on executions against collectors of poor rates, Overfeers of the poor may be directed by the courts to covenant with the masters or miftreffes of apprentices bound by them to pay any fuch apprentices a fum not to exceed zo dollars as freedom dues, Perfons to fuperintend the election of overfeers of the poor may be appointed at any court, 242 243 Perfons poffeffed of an eftate may purchase the pretenced title of another in aid of their own former eftate, 37 Poffeffion of part in controverfies for lands, not to be conftrued poffeffion of the whole, 112 Actual poffeffion need not be proved to maintain a writ of right, By what conveyances the poffeffion of the grantor thall pass to the grantee without livery of feizin, POST DATE. Penalty on any merchant post-dating any ftore account, for post-dating an account against a decegent's eftate, POWER. All power is derived from the people, Legiflative and executive power should be feparate and diftin&t, 112 159 103 167 183 183 183 183 183 POWERS OF ATTORNEY. To confefs judgment before action brought, void, PRE-EMPTION. Infants, &c. having title to high lands to which fwamps, &c. are contiguous, fhall have a right of pre-emption in fuch lands, and may enter for them within three years after difabilities removed, PRESENTMENTS. When the words "upon their oaths" or "fworn" may be left out of prefentments, and "in folemn form" or "charged” used inftead thereof, 160 148 56 To be made by grand juries of diftrict and inferior courts, Proceedings to be had on prefentments where the penalty is under 20 dollars, ICO 100 101 106 Procets on, for offences not capital, On indictments grounded on prefentments for offences not capital, the profecutor may be ruled to fecurity for costs, 106 377 378 No fees to be charged to defendants in predentments, if acquitted, 218 219 PRESS. How a vacancy in the office of overfeer of the poor fhall be fupplied, 378 Overfcers of the poor to feil certain glebe -lands, POOR PERSONS vay fue without paying fees, &c. and fhall have counfel affigned them, POOR RATES SEE POOR. 421 "The freedom of the prefs is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be reftrained but by defpotic governments," PRETENSED TITLES. 238 239 Penalty on those who tell or purchase fuch ti ry Actions popular profecuted with good faith not to be barred by any pretended recovehad by covin or collufion. یا When bailable; and what prisoners shall not be bailable, 17 102 103 411 Committed under the authority of the United States, to be received and fafely kept in the jails of this commonwealth, and to what jails they shall be committed, 43 342 Penalty on the jailors for neglect of duty herein, 43 The United States to pay for the use of the jails, and fupport their prifoners, Poor prifoners not to be detained in prifon for non-payment of their prifon fees, Prifoners to be tried the fame terin that a bill is found against them, Prifoners remanded by county courts to be Not indicted before or at the fecond term Arrested in a different county than that in Remanded by county courts for further trial, the clerks to furnish the diftrict attorney with copies of their commitments, and the depofitions, 43 76 103 102 Keepers of county jails used as district jails to act as keepers of the latter, Fee for keeping and dieting a prifoner, Rules and bounds to be affigned to the dif trist and county jails, 7686 Poor prifoners not to be detained in prifon for non payment of prison fees, 76 PRIVATE ACTS OF ASSEMBLY May be given in evidence without pleading, 112 PRIVATE BANK NOTES. Penalty for circulating private bank bills payable to bearer, PRIVATE PERSONS. Penalty on them for fuffering prifoners in their cuftody charged with crimes to escape, PRIVILEGES. No man in fociety entitled to separate or exclufive privileges, PRIVY COUNCIL.-SEE COUNCIL OF 16 119 103 103 104 STATE-EXECUTIVE. 104 How chofen; their duty and powers, &c. Oath of a privy councillor, 4 PRIVY EXAMINATION. 55 157 158 158 105 Penalty on private perfons having charge of prisoners fuffering them to efcape when charged with treafon, murder or felony, 105 119 Their,eftates not to be feized by theriffs or others, and, if they are convicted, to defcend, How they fhall be turned over by fheriffs to their fucceffors, Prifoners may fell their lands for the payment of debts due creditors at whofe fuit they are in execution, in execution entitled to the prifon bounds, A prifoner fhall not be removed from the cuf tody of one officer to that of another, except by habeas corpus, RISON RULES. SEE PRISON BOUVIS. PRISONS. SEE PRISONERS. prifon, pillory and stocks to be erected and kept in repair by each county and corpora How commiffions for privy examination shall iffue, Magistrates of corporation courts to have the fame power of taking examinations of femes covert as the county court juftices, 366 PRIVY TOKENS. Punishment of thofe receiving money, goods, &c. in others' names, by means thereof, PROCEDENDO. Suits remanded by procedendo to inferior courts, fhall not be again removed before judgments there, PROCEEDINGS. DINGS 45 82.92 Felony to embezzle any procefs weereby any judgment fhall be reverfed, How process thall be iffusa, executed and returned in the high courts of chancery, 65 427. |