RACES.  See Quakers, 5.

    1.  No Person shall apply to the Governor, for a
Commission to range the Woods and Forests after
Wild Neat Cattle, and Horse, without producing a
Certificate under Hand of the Justices of the County
Court where he is to range, setting forth, that he is of
good Fame.  Nor shall any Person so commissioned,
appoint any Deputy to range as aforesaid, except such
Person so deputed be likewise approved of by the Justices
of the County, wherein he is to range as a Deputy.
1715, ch. 31, §. 6.
    2.  Rangers shall not take up, mark, or dispose of
any unmarked Cattle, under Three Years old, on Penalty
of suffering as if they had no Commission.  Ibid.
§. 7.
    3.  This Act to be Read in open Court, in every 
March and November Court yearly, and given in Charge
to the Grand Jury, to enquire of any Breaches thereof
by Wood Rangers in the County.  Ibid.  §. 8.
    4.  Persons ranging the Woods after wild Neat Cattle
and Horses, without Licence from the Governor,
shall forfeit 5000 lb Tobacco for every such wild Creature
by them killed, or taken away alive or dead; one
Half to the Support of Government, the other Half 
to the Informer.  Ibid.  §. 9.
    5.  Licenced Rangers shall not range, &c. in any
Islands or inclosed Grounds, without Leave of the
Owner, on Forfeiture of 5000 lb Tobacco for every
Beast so killed or taken up therein; one Half to the
County Charge, the other Half to the Party grieved,
or suing for the same.  Ibid.  §. 10.
RAPE.  See Negroes, 37.
REAL  ESTATES of ORPHANS.  See Guardians,
    5, 16-22, 25, 26.
REBELLION.  See Militia, 7.  War, 3.

    Receivers of Stolen Goods, and Aiders of a Thief,
in making away with, or concealing of them; shall,
on Conviction, suffer the same Corporal Punishment
as the Thief.  1715, ch. 26, §. 2.
    See Thieving and Stealing, 2.  Horse Stealers.
RECOGNITION.  See Protestant Succession.
RECOGNIZANCE.  See Limitation of Actions, 6.
    Manumission of Slaves, 3.

    1.  The Secretary, Register in Chancery, Commissary,
Register of the Land Office, the several County
Clerks, nor any of their Deputies, Officers or Under
Clerks, having the keeping of the Secretary's, Chancery,
Commissary's, Land or County Court Offices,
committed to them, shall take upon themselves the
keeping of the respective Records, or receive any Fees,
Profits, &c. from their several Offices, till they have
entered into Bond with Two sufficient Sureties, having
visible Landed Estates within this Province (for the
finding at his own Expence good and sufficient Record
Books, making true and perfect Records and Entries,
preserving, repairing, &c. all the Books, Paper, and
Records, remaining in, or added to his Office,) during
his Continuance therein, &c.  (See the Condition at
large, in 1742 ch. 10, §. 2,) viz.
    The Secretary for the Provincial Office                    £. 3000
    -------------------for the Chancery Office                         1000
    The Commissary-General, for the Commissary's
        Office.        -        -        -        -        -        -                    3000    Currency.
    The Register of the Land-Office        -                          3000
    The several County Clerks, each        -                         1000
1716, ch. 1, £. 3  and 6; and 1742, ch. 10, §. 2.
    2.  Which Bonds shall be entered into, in the Name
of the Lord Proprietary, viz. for the Provincial, Chancery,
Commissary, and Land Offices, before Two
Provincial Justices, who shall cause the Witnesses to

such Bonds, immediately to make Probat thereof before
them:  Which Probat shall be endorsed on the
Bond, and, together therewith, be Entered into the
Provincial Land Records, and the Original lodged in
the Council-Office.  1716, ch. 1, §. 3.
    3.  The County-Clerk's Bond shall be entered into
in like Manner, before the County Court, and immediately
Proved before the Court, or Two County
Justices, and entered by the Clerk in the County Records
for Conveyance of Land, and the Original Bond
lodged in the Council-Office.  Ibid.  §. 6.
    4.  Copies of such Bonds, Attested under Hand and
Seal of Office, of either the Clerk of the Provincial
or County Courts, shall be good Evidence to maintain
any Action brought for such Breach of the Condition.
Ibid.  §. 3 and 6; and 1742, ch. 10, §. 3.
    5.  Any Persons may put such Bond in Suit for any
particular Breach thereof, to their respective Damages,
without any formal Assignment of the Bond; and shall
have the Damages, (assessed by a Jury) awarded them
by the Court wherein recovered, out of the Penalty.----
But, in case of Non-Suit, the Prosecutor (whose
Name shall always be endorsed on the Back of the Original
Process) shall pay the Defendant full Costs of
Suit.  1716, ch. 1, §. 5 and 6.
    6.  An Order from the Lower House of Assembly,
or the Provincial Court, shall oblige the Attorney-General
to sue the Bonds given for the Provincial, Chancery,
Commissary, or Land Office, for securing the
Public from all Charges of putting or preserving the
said Records in Repair.  Ibid.  §. 5.
    7.  A County Clerk's Bond may be put in Suit by
Order of the County Court, for the Indemnity of the
County.  Ibid.  §. 6.
    8.  But neither the Public nor County shall be burdened
with Costs of Non-suit, when there shall happen
to be Prosecutors.  Ibid.  §. 7; and 1742, ch. 10,
§. 5.
    9.  The Provincial Justices may, as often as they
see Cause, oblige the Secretary, Commissary-General,
Register in Chancery, and Register of the Land-Office,
to renew their Bonds, with other Sureties, where
they shall disapprove the Ability of the former.  1716,
ch. 1, §. 4; and 1742, ch. 10, §. 6.
    10.  The County Courts may, in like Manner, oblige
their respective Clerks to renew their Bonds with
other Sureties, where they disapprove the Sufficiency
of the former.  1742, ch. 10, §. 4.
    11.  No PArt of the Penalty of such Bonds (on Suit
and Recovery) shall be applied to any other Use than
making good the Damages to the Public, Counties, or
Private Persons, according to the true Intent of this 
and the Original Act.  Ibid.  §. 7.
    12.  No Clerk or Register, except Parish-Registers,
shall remove any Books, Papers, or Records, out of 
their respective Public Offices, and keep, or suffer the
same to be kept out of their Public Offices, at any
Time between Eleven at Night, and Six in the Morning;
on Penalty of 10 l. Currency for each Offence:
One Half to the Informer, the other Half to the County
School.  Provided such Prosecutions be commenced
within Six Months after the Offence committed.
1747, ch. 3, §. 10 and 11.
    13.  But County Clerks may remove out of their respective
Public Offices the last recording Book for
Judgments by them kept, together with the Four last
Court Dockets and Papers; and the same may keep at
their Own Houses, or other convenient Places within
the County, for such Time as to them shall seem necessary,
without incurring the Penalties in the foregoing
Article mentioned.  1748, ch. 7, §. 2.
    14.  Persons convict of wilfully or corruptly embezzelling,
impairing, razing, or altering any Will or
Record, within this Province, whereby the Estate of
Inheritance or Freehold, of any Person whatsoever,
shall be defeated, injured, or any ways altered, shall
forfeit all their Goods, Chattels, Lands and Tenements: