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CLAP-BOARD TIMBER.  See Highways, 13.
    Water Mills, 2.
CLERGY.  See Ministers.
CLERK of the COUNCIL.  See Inspectors, 6, 7.
    Journals of Assembly, per Tot.  Naval Officers, 8.
CLERK of the HOUSE of DELEGATES.  See
    Journals of ASsembly, per Tot.  Letters Public, 3.
CLERK of the INDICTMENTS.  See Attorneys,
    3, 5.  Process Criminal, 2.
CLERK of the PROVINCIAL COURT.  See Amerciaments,
    1, 2.  Appeals, 4, 6.  Attorneys, .
    Bills of Cost, per Tot.  Conveyances, 6-8.  Cursing,
    &c. per Tot.  Jurors, 7.  Passes, 1, 2. Process
    Civil, 1.  Protestant Interest, 3, 6.  Records, 12.
CLOATHS.  See Guardians, 6.  Orphans, 3.

COINS.

    1.  Persons forging or counterfeiting foreign God or
Silver Coins, (commonly current in this Province) and
their Aiders, Assisters and Abettors, shall, for the first
Offence, be whipped, pillor'd and cropped; and, for
the Second Offence, be branded in the Cheek and banished.
1707, ch. 4,  §. 1, 2.
    2.  For the Rates of foreign Silver Coins, according
to the Old Currency, before the Introduction of a Paper
Currency; see 1708, ch. 4.
  3.  For the Rates of Gold and Silver Coins, as they
shall pass in Payment for Levies and other Public Tobaccoes;
see Levies, 28.
    4.  The Penalty on clipping or cutting foreign Coins
imposed by the Act of 1707, ch. 4, is taken away by
1729, ch. 2.
    See Gold and Silver.

COLLECTORS.

    1.  The several Collectors shall have the following
Fees (for which see the Act) and no more.  But one
Half of the said Fees only, shall be taken for Vessels
built or purchased by Inhabitants of this Province,
whose Owners are all actual Residents therein.  1717,
ch. 2,  §. 3.
    2.  Collectors shall put up a fair Table of their Fees
in their several Offices, under Penalty of 50 l. Sterling.
one Half to the Support of Government, the other to
the Informer.  Ibid.   §. 4.
    See Annapolis, 2.  Freight of Tobacco, 5.  Oxford, 2.
COLLECTORS of Quit-Rents.  See Inspectors, 46.
COLLEGE of VIRGINIA.  See Gold and Silver, 1.

COMMISSARY-GENERAL;

    1.  ----Shall hold his Court one in Two Months,
or oftener if necessary; and proceed therein according
to the Laws of Great-Britain (if pleaded before him)
in Cases where this Act is silent.
    2.  ----May take the Probat of any Will within this
Province, altho' the same concerns Titles of Land.
Ibid.
3.  ----Shall observe the Rules in this Act, in the
Accounts of Executors and Administrators.  Ibid.   §. 7.
    4.  ----Shall, within Three Months after Accounts
made up and passed in his Office, or after Distribution
by him made according to Law, of any Intestate's Estate,
transmit the Balance or Account thereof to the
County Court where the Estate lieth, on Forfeiture of
10,000 lb Tobacco; one Half to the Support of Government,
the other Half to the Person suing for the
same.  Ibid.   §. 7, and 18.
    5.  ----Shall appoint a Deputy-Commissary in each
County, who may take Probat of Wills, and grant
Letters Testamentary, and also Administration to any
Person, who hath Right to the Administration of the
Estate of any Person deceased, within the County:
But Disputes, concerning the Right of Administration
or Executorship, shall be decided by the Commissary-General;
nor shall the Deputy-Commissary grant Administration,
or take Probat of such disputed Will,
before a Decision and Certificate thereof by the Commissary-General.
Ibid.   §. 29.

COMMISSARY-GENERAL;

    6.  ----Shall take Security of all Executors and Administrators,
to the Use of the Orphans in any Will
mentioned, for the true Performance of such Will,
according to Law and the Intent of the Testator; and
transmit an Account of the Legacies left to any Infant
Orphans to the County Court.   Ibid.   §. 39.
    7. ----Shall send Lists of the sperate and desperate
Debts, and also Lists of the Sureties, with their Places
of Abode, to the County Courts, in the same Manner
as the Balances are directed (by Art. 4,) to be sent.
1729, ch. 24,  §. 4, and 14.
    See Administrators, 1-13, 20.  Cursing, &c. per
        Tot.  Deputy-Commissary, per Tot.  Intestates Estates,
        1, 2, 7.  Prerogative Court, per Tot.  Records,
        per Tot.  Widows, 4, 5.
COMMISSIONERS.  See Boundaries, 4-9.
COMMISSIONERS of BANKRUPTS.  See Bankrupts,
    1-3.
COMMON PRAYER.  See Church of England.
CONSPIRACY.  See Negroes, 37.

CONSTABLES.

    1.  The Justices of the several County Courts shall
appoint Constables, in each Hundred of their respective
Counties, at the first County Court held next after
Michaelmas.  1715, ch. 15§. 1.
    2.  The County Clerk shall signify such Appointment
under his Hand, and deliver the same to the Sheriff
within Five Days after every such Appointment.
And the Sheriff shall, within Ten Days after such
Delivery, deliver the same to each respective Person so
appointed, or leave the same at his usual Place of Abode;
under Penalty of 20 Shillings Currency on the
Clerk or Sheriff respectively neglecting herein; to
be recovered before a single Magistrate, as in the Case
of small Debts, to the Use of the County.  1752,
ch. 7,  §. 2.
    3.  Any Person so appointed, neglecting or refusing
to qualify, within Five Days after such Notice (by
taking the Oaths to the Government, and the Oath of
Office according to the Act of 1715, ch. 15,) shall incur
the Penalty of 500 lb Tobacco, towards the public
Charge of this County, leviable by Distress.  1715,
ch. 15,  §. 1, 2; and 1752, ch. 7, §. 2.
    4.  On the Death or Removal of any Constable, or
Refusal or Neglect of any Person, so appointed, to qualify;
any Two next Justices of the County are required
forthwith, to appoint another proper Person to be
Constable of such vacant Hundred:  Who, upon their
Certificate of such Appointment to him delivered, shall,
within the Time, and according to the Directions of
this, and the Act of 1715, ch. 15, qualify himself, under
the like Penalties, 7c.  1752, ch. 7, §. 3.
    5.  Every Constable shall repair in Person by the 20th
June yearly, to every Habitation in his Hundred, and
demand of every chief Person of a Family a distinct
List, from under their Hands, of all taxable Persons
within their Families.  Out of which the Constable
shall make Two fair Lists, and deliver One of them
to the Sheriff of the County, by the First Day of August
after taking such List, and the other to the next
County Court to be set up1715, ch.15,  §. 3; and 
1719, ch. 12,  §. 6.
    6.  The Constable may take any single Person or
Freemen he shall find within his Hundred (who cannot
procure some House-keeper within the same, to give
him in as a Taxable, nor make appear that he is a Resident,
or taken as a Taxable in some other Hundred
or County) before the next County Magistrate;
who shall commit such Person to the Sheriff, till
he shall procure some House-keeper to return him as
a Taxable, and be answerable for his Levy.  1719,
ch. 12,  §. 7.
    7.  Any Constable who shall not pursue the Directions
of this and the Act of 1715, ch. 15, (See Art. 5 and 6,)
in the taking and returning of Taxables, shall be fined
500 lb Tobacco for each Offence:  One Half to the 



 

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