SUBJECT INDEX 673

setting in stocks, xlviii, Hi, liii, Iv, Ixxx, 38, 52,	Ixxxvi; commission, 2-3, 227, 490; custody of,
60, 84, 92, 98, 460-61, 523; treble damages,	Ivi, Ivii, Ixxvii, Ixxx, Ixxxiv, Ixxxv, 28-29, 52,
xlvi; whipping, xlvi, xlviii, Hi, liii, Ivi, Ivii, Ixxx,	60, 84, 92, 93, 97, 98, 130, 131, 162, 168, 169,
130, 131, 188, 285, 349, 435, 466, 475, 490,	183, 257, 362, 402, 435, 452, 459-62, 463-64,
492, 494, 497, 523, 549	465-66, 484, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496,
	497, 498, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 523, 541, 548,
Receivers, xxxv, 430, 521	554-55, 560, 616; dedimus potestatem, xxxvii, 3;
Recognizances: appear and answer, 347, 349-50,	departing county, xl-xli; duties, xxxviii-xli,
394; appear and answer at Provincial Court,	li, Ixvui-lxix, 7, 38, 429, 431, 521; election of
362-63; appear and prosecute at Provincial	delegates, 6, 291; execution, Ixxxvii, cvii-cviii;
Court, 482; appear and testify at Provincial	fees, xxxviii-xxxix, Ixxx-lxxxi, civ, cvi, cvii, 60;
Court, 481-82; appearance at Provincial Court,	fines, prosecution to judgment, 430; impanel
xlix, liii, Iv, 460; bring bastard and mother to	grand jury, Ixxii; impanel petty jury, Ixxviii,
vestry, Ivi, 130-31; clerk of county court, xxxiv,	xcviii; impositions upon public officers, 430; in
361-62; crown witnesses, Ixxix; custody of	misericordia, 195, 289, 453, 478, 544; method of
court records, xxxiii; execution office of sheriff,	appointment, xxxiv-xxxv; militia officers, xli;
xxxvii-xxxviii, 227; good behavior and appear-	neglect of office, xl-xli, 1, Ixi; oath, xxxvii, 227;
ance at next court, li-lvii, Ixxvii, Ixxx, Ixxxi, 8,	orders of Council, li, 429-30, 497, 498, 509,
27, 28, 38, 41, 52, 64, 85, 93, 105, 113, 129-30,	510, 511, 512, 513, 523, 541, 548, 554-55, 560,
175, 257-58, 285, 294, 324, 375, 394-95, 402,	616; posse comitatus, xxxvii, xxxviii, 3, 490; rec-
435, 452, 461-63, 464, 485, 493, 494, 497, 498,	ord keeping, xxvi; refusal to serve, xlvii; re-
523, 548, 553; maintenance of bastard, Ivi, 131,	turn of writs, Ixxxiv, cv-cvi, cix, 195, 615, see
541; make restitution, Ixxxviii, 36, 121, 122,	also Dockets of writs returnable, Dockets of
170, 175, 216, 252, 330; orphans' estates, Ixvi,	subpoenas returnable, and Dockets of venires
6 1 ; payment of court officers' fees, Iv, Ixxx, 131,	returnable; riots, xli; runaways, accessories to,
169, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 523, 541;	430; salary, 53, 279, 615; service of venire facias,
payment of debt, 51; payment of fees due	Ixxvi; special bail, Ixxv, 39, 49; summons, 213,
sheriff cviii; payment of fine, liii, Ivi, Ixxxi, 169,	249
349, 497, 513; payment of maintenance, Ixiii, 8,	Single justice of the peace: concurrent jurisdiction,
113; payment of judgment, 70, 193, 258, 334,	xx ; differences with Indians, xxi; examination
513, 544; prosecute offender, 85; prosecution	of notorious offenders, xl; laying out road, 23-
of appeal, 74-75, 237-38, 240, 319; stand award,	24; miscellaneous powers, xxi; small debt cases,
ci, 541	xx, Iviii
Recordation of documents, 5-6, 7, 163, 164, 165,	Slaves, xlvi, xlviii, Ixvi, Ixxii; see also sub Acts of
182, 183, 207-09, 221, 258, 260, 275-76, 290-	Assembly, Maryland, Province of, and Offenses
91, 348, 451-53, 490, 519, 571, 616-17	Solicitor general, xxxvi
Register, of Commissary General, 434	Somerset County, constables, xliii
Riot, liii, 462	Somerset County Court: criminal cause, Ixxv,
Roads, laying out, 23-24, 43, 249, 259, 276, 283	Ixxvii; orders of court, liv; reduction of number
Roads, maintenance of, 250, 282, 295	of justices, xxv; representation from, xliii; writ
	of error, Ixxv, Ixxvii, Ixxviii
Secretary of the Province of Maryland, xxxii,	Special court of oyer and terminer, xviii, xx-xxi
xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, cvii, 63, 164-65, 279, 360-61	Special courts (civil), xx
Servants: adjudgment of age, Ixiv, 41, 59, 346-47,	St. Marys County: boundary, xv, cxiii; county
349, 351, 361-62, 376, 393, 436, 457-58, 490,	levies, 53; deputy surveyor, xxvii; Roman
499, 522-23; agreement between master and	Catholics, xl; witnesses from, cxiii
servant, 490; bastardizing, Ivi; binding out to	St. Marys County Court: capias ad respondendum,
service, 92, 554; capacity to sue, Ixxi; complaints	form of, Ixxxiii; clerk of the court, xxxi; comple-
of masters and servants, Ixx-lxxii, see also sub	tion of pending business, xvi; practice in, xxxi
Prince Georges County Court; custody of	Sub-sheriff, see Under-sheriff
servant, 347-50; custom of the country, xii, 182;	Surveyor and searcher, xxxii
damage to master's house, Ivi; extension of	Surveyor general of the customs, Ixii, cvii
time of service, Ivi, 92; freedom corn and
clothes, Ixxi, 163, 208, 227, 554; indenture, 285;	Talbot County, division of, xvi
issuance of venire facias, Ixxii; mulatto bastards,	Talbot County Court: appeal from, Ixxiii; comple-
130, 294, 369; ordered to serve, 590; runaway,	tion of pending business, xvi; criminal cause,
xxi, xliii, xlvii, Ivii, Ixviii, Ixxi, 4, 39, 92, 232-	Ixxvii; persons crossing into Pennsylvania, Ixviii;
33, 283, 327, 395, 434, 613; set free, 554, 590;	writ of error from, Ixxvii, Ixxviii
swearing the peace, Ixxi; whipping as punish-	Taxables, 22, 282, 615
ment, Ixxx; see also sub Maryland, Province of	Thanksgiving, day of, 52 1
Sheriff: abuse of office, xli, Ixi; allowances in levy,	Trade and Plantations, Lords of, ix
279; attachments, Ixxxvi-lxxxviii; amerce-	Trade and Plantations, Committee for, x, xxx
ments, ciii, 615; bail to the sheriff, Ixxxiv,	Treasurers of the Province of Maryland, 430, 52 1