U.

Utrecht, Treaty of, 9, 108, 119 i (62), 474.
-, -,-, alleged breach of, by Spaniards in South Carolina, 348 xiii.
-, -,-, boundaries in West Indies defined under, 391 i.
-, -,-, British title to Carolina and Georgia under, 348 xv.
-, -,-, interpretation of, 462 iii, iv.
-, -,-, possessions of Creek Indians under, 348 xv.
-, -,-, violation of, in Newfoundland, 324.
-, -,-,-, by French, 389 p. 278.
-, -,-, violation of 15th Article of, 446.

V.

Vera Cruz, Governor of, letter to, 348 x.

Virginia: An Act altering the laws now in force for the sale of goods taken in execution or distrained for rent, and for better preventing the fraudulent practices of tenants, explanation of, 480 pp. 360, 361.
-, -, Act amending Act for settling titles and bounds of lands, and for preventing unlawful shooting and ranging thereupon, confirmation of, 250, 263, 380 iii.
-, -, Act for appointing certain new public ferries, settling the rates of several old ones and altering several Court days, explanation of, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act appointing a Treasurer and empowering him to receive the moneys in the hands of the late Treasurer, report upon, 182.
-, -, Act for better regulating and collecting certain officers' fees etc., explanation of, 480 p. 361.
-, -, Act for the better regulation of the office of Surveyors of lands etc., explanation of, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Act for the better support and encouragement of the College of William and Mary, confirmation of, 250, 263, 380 iii.
-, -, Act for building a bridge over Nottoway River, explanation of 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act, Castle duty (Port duty), explanation of, 28 i.
-, -, Act to confirm the Charter of the Borough of Norfolk and for enlarging the jurisdiction of the Court of Hustings in the City of Williamsburgh, explanation of, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for confirming and better securing the titles to lands in the Northern Neck, explanation of, 480 pp. 362, 363.
-, -, Act declaring who shall have a right to vote in the election of Burgesses etc., explanation of, 480 p. 360.
-, -, Act depriving free negroes and mulattos of the privilege of voting at election of Burgesses etc., explanation of, 308.
-, -, Act directing the try all of slaves committing capital crimes and for the more effectual punishing conspiracies and insurrections of them and for the better government of negroes, mulattoes and Indians bound or free, criticism of, 182.
-, -,-, enquiry concerning, 216.
-, -, Act to dock the entail of certain lands whereof Lewis Burwell, Esq., is seised, and for settling other lands and slaves of greater value to the same use, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for encouraging the making of linen cloth (1730), suspended, 28.
-, -, Act concerning foreign debts (1663), repeal of, 28 i.
-, -, Act for further amending the Act for amending the staple of tobacco and for preventing frauds in H.M. Customs, explanation of, 480 p. 360.
-, -, Act giving exemption from payment of 2s. per hhd., explanation of, 28 i.
-, -, Act for the greater ease and encouragement of sheriffs, explanation of, 480 p. 361.
-, -, Act to impower the Vestry of St. John's Parish, in the County of King William, and the parish of Warwick in the County of Warwick, to sell several parcels of glebe land therein mentioned, and to purchase more convenient glebes in lieu thereof, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for laying a duty upon liquors imported by land, and for better securing the duty upon slaves, explanation of, 480 p. 359.
-, -, Act for laying a duty on slaves etc. (1732), explanation of, 176 p. 114.
-, -, Act for laying a duty of three pence per gallon on imported liquors, explanation of, 176 p. 114.
-, -, Act for laying a duty of fourpence per gallon on liquors etc. (1726), for the support of William and Mary College, 176.
-, -, Act for lessening the allowances to witnesses in the County Courts, etc., explanation of, 480 p. 363.
-, -, Act for making reperation for tobacco lately burnt in Gray's Creek warehouse, explanation of, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for obliging apprentices to serve the time they shall be bound for, notwithstanding their infancy, explanation of, 480 p. 360.
-, -, Act for paying the wages of the Burgesses in money, for this present Session of Assembly, explanation of, 480 p. 363.
-, -, Act to prevent the cutting up of tobacco suckers, explanation of, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Act to prevent free negroes and mulattoes voting in elections, to lie by probationary, 409.
-, -, Act for preventing persons contracting small debts to remove their effects out of the county where they reside, etc., explanation of, 480 p. 361.
-, -, Act to prevent the retailing of strong liquors in the town of York, in small quantities, explanation of, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for priority of payment to county creditors (1664) repeal of, 28 i.
-, -, Act for raising a public levy and for other purposes therein mentioned, explanation of, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Act for raising a public revenue (1680), description of, 176.
-, -,-, Supplementary Act to (1710), 176.
-, -, Act for regulating the fees and accompts of the practitioners in Physick, explanation of, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Act for relief of certain persons who were sufferers in the loss of the Records of the County, of Nansemond, explanation of, 480 p. 363.
-, -, Act for the relief of divers of the inhabitants of the parishes of Raleigh and Dale, explanation of, 480 p. 363.
-, -, Act for selling certain lands, with water-mill, and slaves of the estate of Joseph Allen, Gent. deceased, for the payment of his debts, 480 p. 364.
-, -, Act for settling the bounds of land and for preventing unlawful shooting and ranging thereon, clause in, 171.
-, -, Act, tobacco, 28.
-, -, Act to vest certain entailed lands etc. in Charles Tomkins, Gent. in fee simple etc., confirmed, 472, 475.
-, -,-, referred, 467.
-, -, Acts of, approval of, 171.
-, -,-, referred, 53.
-, -,-, report upon, 182.
-, -,-, transmitted, 480.
-, -, Assembly, Act (1705), Chap 34th of Session of, repealed, 28 i.
-, -,-, journals of, 480.
-, -,-, new, good disposition of, 380 iii.
-, -,-, proclamation dissolving, 28 iii.
-, -,-, prorogued, 480 ii.
-, -, boundaries, Commission to settle, 91.
-, -,-, with North Carolina, 141 p. 85.
-, -,-, of Northern Grant, Commissioners to settle, 380.
-, -, College of William and Mary, money for support of, 176.
-, -, Council, address from, 380 i.
-, -,-, journal of, 28, 30.
-, -,-, vacancies in, 106.
-, -, Council and Assembly of, Lieutenant Governor's speech to, 380, 380 iii.
-, -, Councillors. See Armistead Henry; Allen, John; Willis, Francis; Fitzhugh, Henry; Harrison, Benjamin; Lewis, John; Churchill, Armistead; Meriwether, Nicholas; Burwell, Lewis, Junr.; Carter, Charles; Braxton, George; Robinson, John.
-, -, Deputy Auditor of. See Blair, John.
-, -, Elizabeth River, town of Norfolk on, 480 p. 364.
-, -, fur trade, duty on exports, 178 p. 114.
-, -, General Assembly, free negroes and mulattoes not permitted to serve on or vote for, reasons for, 308.
-, -, Government of, good relations of, 30.
-, -, Governor of, Madeira wine for, exempt from duty, 480 p. 359.
-, -, Hanover County, tobacco in payment of debt to Surveyor, 480 p. 362.
-, -, House of Burgesses, address from, 380 ii.
-, -, iron works at, 28.
-, -, lands near the Great Mountains, Commission to settle Lord Fairfax's boundaries, 357.
-, -,-, dispute concerning claim to, 91; and see Calvert, Charles; Fairfax; Penn.
-, -,-, proposal to settle, 110, 409; and see Ochs, John.
-, -,-, settlement and survey of boundaries of Lord Fairfax's claim, 274.
-, -, laws, manufacture and trade of, account of, 91.
-, -,-,-, transmitted, 28.
-, -,-, trade and manufacture of, affecting British trade, representation upon, 28 i.
-, -, liquors, duty on, 380 iii.
-, -, Militia, better regulations for recommended, 380 iii.
-, -,-, proclamation concerning, 480 iii.
-, -, mines in, 91.
-, -, negroes, free, explanation of refusal of permission to vote or serve as Burgesses, 308.
-, -,-,-, power of voting denied to, 182.
-, -,-, imported, question of duty on, 176 p. 114.
-, -, Northern Neck, grants of land in, validity of, 480 p. 363.
-, -,-, settlement of Lord Fairfax's lands in, 158, 159.
-, -, Orange County, tobacco in payment of debt to Surveyor, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Potomack, Naval officers' list of entries and clearings at, 225, 507.
-, -, quit rents, account of, 28 iv.
-, -,-, account of revenue from, 383 ii.
-, -, Receiver General of. See Grymes, John.
-, -, revenue of, 176.
-, -,-, account of, 28 ii, 159 i, 383 i, 480 p. 365, 480 i.
-, -,-, flourishing state of, 91.
-, -, salt for, 454 p. 327.
-, -,-, from Portugal, 409
-, -,-,-, request for, 91.
-, -, settlements in, proposed conditions for, 110.
-, -, slaves, duty on, 480 p. 359.
-, -, Spotsylvania County, tobacco in payment of debt to Surveyor, 480 p. 362.
-, -, Surveyors General of H.M. Customs in America, instructions for rank and precedence of, 30.
-, -, tenure of land in, 133 p. 79.
-, -, tobacco, 410 p. 306.
-, -,-, Captain Ball's proposal to improve, 31.
-, -, tobacco, duty of 1d. per pound on exports of, for College of William and Mary, 31.
-, -,-, duty of 2s. pr. hhd. on, 176.
-, -,-,-, explanation of, 176 p. 114.
-, -,-, new proposals for manufacture from Captain Ball of Brazil, 28, 31.
-, -, tobacco trade, with Africa, 31.
-, -,-, with European countries, 31.
-, -, trade of, with Great Britain, 28.
-, -,-, with Madeira, 28.
-, -,-, with West Indies, 28
-, -, William and Mary College, grant of export duty on tobacco for Plantations to, 31.
-, -, wine, manufacture of, 28, 409.
-, -, York Town, pottery at, 28.

Virgin Islands (Anguilla, Barbuda, St. John's, St. Thomas, Spanish Town, Tortola), Assemhlies proposed for, 406.
-, -, composition of Government for, 60 p. 37.
-, -, Council established in, 406.
-, -, defence of, 406.
-, -, Government of, 60 p. 37.
-, -, Government set up in, by Governor Mathew, question of, 217.
-, -, harbours of, 382 i.
-, -, importance of, 382 i.
-, -, inhabitants of Leeward Islands remove to, 190.
-, -,-, proposal to settle on Crab Island, 190.
-, -,-, number of, 382 i.
-, -, judges visit in circuit, 60 p. 37.
-, -, lands in, form of tenure of, 406.
-, -, legislature for, 406.
-, -, Lieutenant Governor of, 329 p. 220.
-, -, power to appoint Lieutenant Governors for, 60 p. 37.
-, -, procedure in cases of murder committed in, 406.
-, -, proposal to appoint Justices of the Peace in, 60 p. 37.
-, -, threatened attack by Spaniards upon, 406.
-, -, threatened attack on, from Porto Rico, 405.

West Indies, settlements of, account of trade and conditions in, 399.

Woods, H.M., in the Plantations, in Mass. Bay N.E., draft of bill for preservation of, 362; and see under separate Colonies.

Woollen manufactures in Great Britain, trade of, with Barbados, 204.
-, -, trade with the Plantations, 313.
-, -, trade with Massachusetts Bay, 235.

Works, Board of, letter to, 254, 309.

York, County of, lately Province of Maine, cutting down masts in, 352.