HABEAS CORPUS.

    PROCEDENDO may be awarded on the return of a
habeas corpus.  October, 1778, ch. 21, sec. 11.
    An Allocatur not necessary in civil cases to certiorari
or habeas corpus.  July, 1779, ch. 4.

                                        HAMBURG.

    To have a warehouse.  November, 1783, ch. 41.

                                       HARBOURS.

    Injuries done to them punishable.  1774, ch. 18.

                                HARFORD COUNTY.

    Created by the division of Baltimore county, and public
buildings ordered.  November, 1773, ch. 6.
    The building of the court-house suspended.  1774, ch.
13.
    Further time given to collect the money for that purpose.
February, 1777, ch. 7.
    An election ordered to fix the seat of justice.  November,
1781, ch. 10.
    A supplement to that act. 1784, ch. 10.

                                            HORSES.

    The act of 1744, ch. 20, for punishment of horse-stealers,
is continued for seven years by the act of October,
1780, ch. 12.  November, 1765, ch. 25.
    A supplement to the act respecting horse-rangers,
height of fences, &c.  1769, ch. 18.

                                  HOUSE-BREAKING.

    The act of 1737, ch. 2, punishing among other
crimes that of house-breaking, continued for seven years
by the act of November, 1782, ch. 32.  November,
1765, ch. 20.
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                    IDIOTS, LUNATICS, &c.  See Infant.

                                        IMPRESSING.

    CARRIAGES, boats, &c. may be impressed to expedite
the march of troops.  February, 1777, ch. 4.


                                        INDEMNITY.

    An act to indemnify the executive and others, who, on
an extraordinary emergency, had exercised powers not
warranted by law.  October, 1777, ch. 17.

                                      INDICTMENTS.

    How they shall conclude.  Const. 57.

                                          INFANT.

    Infants, idiots, &c. under direction of chancery, empowered
to convey lands held on trust, or by mortgage,
or charged with money or tobacco.  November, 1773,
ch. 7, sec. 1.
    Infants in the army empowered to devise real property
by a resolve of the convention.  October, 26, 1776.
    Infants bound by guardians deeds made under direction
of chancery.  October, 1778, ch. 22.

                                    INSPECTORS.

    Acts for their special appointment are, June, 1777, ch.
13, October, 1777, ch. 22, March, 1778, ch. 10, October,
1778, ch. 11, July, 1779, ch. 19, November,
1779, ch. 41.
                                  INSURRECTIONS.

    A temporary provision made against them.  March,
1778, ch. 8.
                                        IRELAND.

    The act of 1735, ch. 6, laying a duty on Irish servants,
and prohibiting the importation of papists, is continued
for twenty-one years by the act of June, 1773,
ch. 2.  November, 1765, ch. 18.

                               JUDGMENT.

    TO be rendered on award after it shall have remained
seven days in the general, or four days in the
county court.  October, 1778, ch. 21, sec. 8, 9, 12.

                                  JUDGES.

    The manner of preserving their independence, and of
removing them.  Decl. 30, and Const. 40.
    They shall not hold any other office, or receive any
fees or perquisites.  Decl. 30.
    To take an oath before they elect.  Const. 50.
    To swear that they will not hold any other office.
Const. 52.
    Their punishment for violating that oath.  Const. 53.

                                  JURY.

    The trial by jury recognised.  Decl. 3, 21.
    The number of jurors from each county prescribed.
February, 1777, ch. 15, sec. 10.
    The qualifications of jurors.  October, 1777, ch. 16,
and March, 1778, ch. 8.
    That a juror had a cause depending at the same term,
no cause to set aside a verdict, but a good cause of challenge.
October, 1778, ch. 21, sec. 2, 3.
    Fines on jurors by the same act increased to £. 50,
sec. 15.
    Their allowance.  October, 1780, ch. 18.
    How far they may be fined.  April, 1782, ch, 40.

                    JUSTICES of the PEACE.

    Eligible to the public councils.  Const. 44.
    To swear before they elect.  Const. 50.
    Their jurisdiction as to debts.  June, 1777, ch. 12.
    Their allowance for sitting in court.  October, 1780,
ch. 18.

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                            KENT COUNTY.

    WITH respect to its school, see the acts of November,
1765, ch. 30, 1768, ch. 20, March,
1779, ch. 2.
    That school converted into Washington college.  April,
1782, ch. 8.
    Court adjourned.  October, 1778, ch. 1.

                    KING WILLIAM's SCHOOL.

    Trustees entitled to receive gifts, &c. to the amount
of £. 200 sterling, annual income, and any seven of
them enabled to act.  1774, ch. 15.
    Provision for filing the vacancies among the visitors.
June, 1778, ch. 5.

                            KALB, BARON De

    The sons of that brave officer, who fell in the service
of America, placed on the footing of natural born subjects.
October, 1780, ch. 37.



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                                LAND-OFFICE.
    THIS office opened, registers and an examiner-general
to be appointed, grants directed.  November,
1781, ch. 20.
    Sundry regulations and a time given to compound on
old certificates.  April, 1782, ch. 38.
    A further time to compound on old certificates.  November,
1782, ch. 5.
    Grants authorised.  1784, ch. 75.

                                        LAWS.

    What are the laws of the land.  Decl. 3, 41.
    They ought not to be sanguinary, retrospective, or
made to attaint particular persons.  Decl. 14, 15, 16.
    To be administered freely, fully, speedily.  Decl. 17.
    No power of suspending them, unless derived from the
legislature.  Decl. 7.