above such Mill, are not obliged to send their Taxables
to work on such Road, except on the Dams,
Causeways or Bridges, which they are obliged to make
and maintain by the Acts of 1753, ch. 16; and 1756,
ch. 12.  See Water-Mills, 6, 7.
HIRING.  See House Breaking, 3.
HOGSHEADS.  See Inspectors, 29.

    1.  Persons killing any unmark'd Swine, above Three
Months old, (not being upon their own Lands, or in
Company with their own Stock) shall be adjudged
Hog-Stealers, and suffer such Corporal Pains as in the
Case of Thieving and Stealing.  1715, ch. 26, §. 4.
See Thieving and Stealing, 2.
    2.  Persons concealing or disfiguring the Marks of
Swine so killed, by cutting off their Ears, &c. shall be
adjudged Hog Stealers.  Ibid.  §. 5.
    3. Any Person convict of Thieving, Hog Stealing,
or other Crime, or that shall be of evil Fame, or a Vagrant,
or dissolute Liver, that shall shoot, kill, or
hunt, or be seen to carry a Gun upon any seated Plantation,
without the Owner's Leave, shall forfeit 1000 lb
Tobacco; one Half to his Majesty, the other Half
to the party grieved, or Person suing for the same.
Ibid.  §. 6.
HOGS.  See Annapolis, 3.  Hog Stealing, per Tot.
    Negroes, 30.  Warehouses, 3.

    1.  All Inclosures by Fences or otherwise (within
this Act) shall be Five Feet high.  And from the 1st
May till the 10th November yearly, all Owners of Horses,
Mares, Colts, or Geldings, shall keep them within
good and sufficient Inclosures, fenced Grounds, or
Pastures, under the Penalties in this Act mentioned.
1715, ch. 31, §. 1.
    2.  And if any such Horses, &c. shall break into the
Pastures, Corn-fields, or other Inclosures, of any Inhabitants
of this Province, within the Time before
limited; if the Owner, after Notice thereof given
him two several Times by the Party grieved, shall
neglect to perform what is by this Law enjoined, such
Horses, &c. may be shot or destroyed by the Party
grieved.  Ibid.  §. 2.
    3.  But no injured Person may kill such Horses, &c.
unless within his own proper inclosed Grounds, on
Penalty of paying the Owner the full Value of such
Horse, &c. so destroyed.  Ibid.  §. 3.
    4.  Persons unlawfully taking and keeping One Hour
in their Possession, or riding or working any other
Man's Horse, &c. without Knowledge or Consent of
the Owner (unless found Trespassing, and the Owner
not known) shall pay Damages to the Owner, and
also forfeit 500 lb Tobacco, one Half to the Informer,
the other Half to the Party grieved; to be recovered in
the County Court by Action of Debt, &c.  Ibid.  §. 5.
    5.  Any Stoned-Horse that hath been broke, being
found loose and out of Inclosure, may be taken up
and impounded by any Person whatsoever, and there
detained till the Owner shall pay 5 s. or 60 lb Tobacco
to the Person impounding such Horse.  Ibid.  §. 11.
    6.  Stoned Colts above 18 Months old, or Stoned
Horses unbroke, being found loose in the Woods, or
out of Inclosure, may be shot or destroyed by any Person
whatsoever.  And the Person sued for such Shooting,
&c. may plead the General Issue, &c. Ibid.  §. 12.
    7.  No Person, not having Lands of his own, nor
Renting a Plantation, shall keep any breeding Mare
in the Woods; on Penalty of 600 lb Tobacco for
every such Mare; one Half to the County Charge,
the other Half to the Informer.  Ibid.  §. 13.
    See Annapolis, 3.  Guardians, 7.  Horse Stealers.
        Negroes, 30.  Rangers, per Tot.   Stray Horses,
        per Tot.  Troopers, 2, 5.  Warehouses, 3.
HORSE RACING.  See Quakers, 5.
HORSE RANGERS.  See Rangers.

    Every Person who shall feloniously Take or Steal
any Horse, Mare, Gelding or Colt, within this Province,
and all their Aiders, Abettors and Accessories,
either before or after the Fact; and all Persons who
shall buy, take or receive, any Stolen Horse, &c.
knowing the same to be stolen, shall, on Conviction,
Outlawry, or refusing to answer directly, or standing
Mute upon Arraignment, or peremptorily Challenging
above Twenty, suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy.
1744, ch. 20, §. 1.

    1.  Not to be tried in the County Court.  1715,
ch. 26, §. 1.
    2.  Persons convict of breaking into any Shop, Storehouse
or Warehouse, altho' not contiguous to, or used
with any Mansion House; and Stealing from thence
Goods to the Value of Five Shillings, shall suffer
Death, without Benefit of Clergy.  1729, ch. 4, §. 2.
    3.  Persons breaking into any Tobacco-House, or
other Out-house whatsoever, and Stealing from thence
any Goods or Chattels to the Value of Five Shillings
Sterling, or who shall counsel, hire, command, aid
or abet, any Persons to commit the same, or who
shall be Accessories to any of the said Offences, &c.
shall suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy:  Provided
such Tobacco-House or other Out-house be well
boarded, &c. and the Doors Locked, Bolted in the
Inside, or Nailed,.  1737, ch. 2, §. 2, 3.
HOUSE BURNING.  See Negroes, 34, 37, 38.
    Tobacco Houses, 1.
HOUSHOLD STUFF.  See Guardians, 9.
HUNTING.  See Hog Stealers, 3.  Inclosures, 1.
    Sabbath Breaking, 1.

JAYLOR.  See Criminal Fees, 1.  Runaways, 9.
JEOFFAILLES.  See Advancement of Justice, 1.
JEWELS.  See Fieri facias, 6.  Guardians, 8.
IMBEZZLEMENT.  See Parochial Libraries, 1, 4, 5.
    Records, 14.
IMPORTATION of Gold and Silver encouraged.
    See Gold and Silver, 1, 2.
IMPORT DUTIES.  See Irish Servants, 3-5.  Liquors
    imported, per Tot.  Negroes, 8, 9, 15.  Pitch,
    Tar and Pork, per Tot.
IMPOUNDING.  See Horse, 5.
IMPRISONED.  See Administration Bonds, 3.  Bankrupts, 
    5.  Limitation of Actions, 3, 6-8.  Specialties,
    2.
IMPRISONMENT.  See Blasphemy, 1, 2.  Cursing,
    &c. 6.  Ingrossers, 2.  Indians, 5.  Letters Public, 5.
    Letters Private, 1.  Limitation of Actions, 2.  Magistrates,
    2.  Militia, 12.  Negroes, 46.  Perjury, 1,
    2.  Servants, 23.  Single Magistrates, 1.  Tobacco
    Plants, 1.  Witnesses, 6, 9.
IMPRISONMENT FEES.  See Sheriffs, 29.

    No Person shall hunt with Guns or Dogs within any
inclosed Grounds, Islands, Peninsulas, or Necks
fenced across from Water to Water, without Leave from
the Proprietor thereof; on Penalty of 200 lb Tobacco
to the Party grieved; to be recovered before a single
Magistrate, as in Case of small Debts.  1728, ch. 7,
§. 7.
    See Horses, 1, 3.  Rangers, 5.  Stray Horses, 1.
INDENTURES.  See Servants, 11, 16.

    1.  The Captain, Lieutenant, and Ensign of each
Independent Company, shall have the same Powers,
&c. to execute the Militia Laws in, and over their
respective Companies, as the Field Officers have in and
over their respective Regiments.  1733, ch. 7, §. 7.