15.  On laying the Levies, Six per Cent shall be levied
and allowed to the Sheriff, and Five per Cent on
the Clergy's 30 per Poll.  1763, ch. 18, §. 22, 23.
    16.  The Sheriff shall be allowed 5 per Cent for
collecting Parochial Taxes.  See Vestry, 27.
    17.  For all other Matters relating to the levies; see
Levies, 16-28.
    18.  The Sheriff, or his Deputy, shall read the Act
for preventing the tumultuous Meetings, &c. of Negroes
and other Slaves, &c. in every County Court:
On Forfeiture of 500 lb Tobacco for every Omission.
1723, ch. 15, §. 8.
    19.  The Sheriff's Certificate to the Public Treasurer,
of the actual Execution, or Death of any Slave
under Confinement, after Condemnation, is necessary,
in order for the Owners to receive the Value of their
Condemned Slaves.  See Negroes, 36, 42, 45.
    20.  Slaves committing Felony of Death, shall be
committed to the Sheriff, in order to be tried the next
Assize or County Court.  1751, ch. 14, §. 4.
    21.  Sheriffs shall cause the Act for the more effectual
Punishment of Negroes, and other Slaves, &c. to
be read at the Court-house Door, on the Second Day
of each County Court, on Forfeiture of 5 l. Current
Money for every neglect, &c.  Ibid.  §. 11.
    22.  Sheriffs shall Read the Act entitled, An Additional
Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, An Act
relating to Servants and Salves, on the Wednesday of
each respective County Court, having first given Notice
of such Reading, by Proclamation, at the several
Ordinaries, or Houses of Entertainment, near to the
Court-House, on pain of forfeiting 500 lb Tobacco:
One Half to the County School, the other to the Informer,
for every Neglect.  1748, ch. 19, §. 5.
    23.  For the Sheriff's Duty, with respect to Runaways
when committed to his Custody; see Runaways,
9, 10.
    24.  No Sheriff shall execute for Officers Fees,
where the Party shall produce the former Sheriff's Receipt,
or otherwise make appear the same to be paid;
on Penalty of treble the Sum Executed, and Costs, to
the Party grieved.  1715, ch. 46, §. 6.
    25.  Sheriff's Bonds shall be taken in the several
County Courts in the Form prescribed in this Act:
Which Bond shall be transmitted by the County Justices
to the Secretary's Office within Two Months; on
Forfeiture of 1500 lb Tobacco.  And the Secretary,
or his Chief Clerk of the Provincial Court, shall lay
the Bonds, so received, before the Governor, at the
next Council, for his Approbation or Disallowance of
the Securities.  Ibid.  §. 7-9.
    26.  The County Courts shall require and take new
Security of the Sheriffs, yearly, in a Penalty answerable
to the Public Charge of their respective Counties;
but in no Case less than 200,000 lb Tobacco.  Ibid.
§. 9.
    27.  Sheriffs, against whom no just Complaint is
made, may be continued in Office Three Years successively,
but no longer.  Ibid.  §. 10.
    28.  Bonds, Bills or Writings obligatory, taken by
Sheriffs in their own Counties, during their Continuance
in Office, without endorsing the Account on
the Back thereof, for which the same was passed,
shall be void, and not recoverable in Law.  But, that
they may receive no Damage by such Restraint, the
Time they remain in Office shall not be reckoned in
the Act of Limitation.  Ibid. §. 13, 14.
    29.  No Sheriff shall charge more than single Imprisonment
Fees, though the Party be in Prison at the
Suit of several Persons.  Ibid.  §. 15.
    30.  Where any Inhabitants shall have any Allowance
in Public or County Levies, payable (by the Paper
Money Act of 1733, ch. 6,) in Bills of Credit at
10 s. per Hundred, and at the same Time are chargeable
with Tobacco in the said Levies, which may be
payable in Money by the 10th April yearly; the several
Sheriffs shall be obliged to discount such Tobacco

so far forth as their respective Allowances in such Levies
shall amount to, either before, or after the 10th
April, yearly.  1742, ch. 7, §. 3.
    31.  The several Sheriffs shall, on the First Day of
June Court, yearly, make out Two Alphabetical Lists
of the Names of the Persons in their respective Counties,
who are chargeable with any Public Dues, &c.
inserting the Tobacco with which every such Person is
chargeable; and the Money, if any, paid in Discharge
thereof, by the 10th April then next preceding, and
make Oath to the Truth thereof:  One of which Lists
shall be delivered to the Court, and the other set up
at the Court-House, for the Inspection of all Persons
concerned:  And shall pay, &c. every particular Creditor
so much Money as shall bear the same proportion
to the whole of his Allowance, as the whole Money,
so paid by the said 10th April, bears to the whole Public,
&c. Charge, in that County, payable in Money.
Ibid.  §. 4, 5.
    32.  The Sheriff shall, on or before the 1st March,
yearly, set up Notes at the Church Doors, and other
Public Places, giving Notice of a certain Day in each
Week, on which he, or his Under-Sheriff will give
constant Attendance at the Court-house, from Nine in
the Morning, till Five in the Afternoon, from the said
1st March to the 10th April inclusive, excepting the
Week in which March Court is held; and for Two
Days next before the said 10th April, (Sunday excepted)
for receiving the Levies.  Ibid.  §. 6.
    33.  Persons, tendering their respective Quotas, or
any Part of the Money due for their Levies, to the
Sheriff, or his Deputy, at the High Sheriff's Dwelling-house,
or at the Court-house, during March
Court, or at the Places and Times so as aforesaid appointed,
before One or more credible Witnesses; and
such Sheriff, &c. refusing or neglecting to receive the
same; such Persons shall not, at any Time afterwards,
be obliged to pay Tobacco for such Levies, or so much
thereof as they had tendered Money for; but shall be
at their own Election to pay the same in Money or
Tobacco.  Ibid.  §. 7.
    34.  Sheriffs shall comply with the Act of 1742, ch. 7.
(See above, Art. 30-33;) so far as relates to Discount,
making out, &c. Lists of Levies, and of the Money
paid, or Certificates returned, by such as make no
Tobacco; Attendance to receive the Dues, and proportionable
Payment thereof in Money or Tobacco,
to Public Creditors.  1763, ch. 18, §. 28.
    For other Matters, see Attorneys, 7.  Criminal Fees,
        1-3.  Cursing, &c. per Tot.  Discount, per
        Tot.  Indians, 12.  Indians Lands, 16, 17.
        Musters, 7, 9.  Officers Fees, 5, 6.  Public
        Arms, 3-9.  Public Creditors, 1.  Public Dues,
        1.  Public Goal, 1, 2.  Special Bail, 1-3.
        Stay of Execution, 1, 2.
SHERIFFS BONDS.  See Administration Bonds, 4-6.
    Levies, 19.  Limitation of Actions, 8.  Navigation
    Bonds, 2.  Public Creditors, 1.
SHIPS.  See Boats, 1, 2.
SHOPS.  See house-breaking, 2.
SHRINKAGE.  See Inspectors, 21.
SILVER.  See Gold and Silver.

    1.  A Single Magistrate can take Probat of any Account.
See Accounts, 2.
    2.  Any Provincial or County Justice, being informed
on Oath, &c. that any Person is actually run away,
&c. and is really indebted to the Person making Application,
&c. may issue his Warrant to the Clerk of
the Court, who shall issue Attachment thereon in the
usual Form, &c.  See Attachment, 9.
    3.  Any County Magistrate may commit any single
Person, or Free-man brought before him by a Constable,
till such Person shall procure some House-keeper
to return him as a Taxable, and be answerable for his
Levy.  1719, ch. 12, §. 7.