TROOPERS. Carbines, Pistols, Holsters and Ammunition.  Ibid. §. 4.     3. Every Trooper neglecting to appear at Muster, on Notice given, accoutred as aforesaid, shall forfeit 100 lb Tobacco, to the Use of the Troop, for purchasing Trumpets, Colours, &c.  Ibid.     4.  Troopers, when out a Ranging, shall find their own Provision; but when in actual Service, shall be found Provisions at the Charge of the Public.  Ibid.     5.  Any Trooper's Horse killed in the Service, shall be paid for by the Public.     See Militia, 6.  Musters, 5.  Public Arms, 6. TRUSTEES.  See Schools, 1-10. TURPENTINE.  See Gauge of Barrels, 3, 4, 7, 8,      10, 11.  See Pitch, &c. per Tot. TWO COUNTY MAGISTRATES.     1.  On the Death or removal of any Constable, or Refusal, &c. to qualify, any Two next Justices may forthwith appoint another.  See Constables, 4.     2.  Two County Magistrates may take the acknowledgment of any Conveyance of Land, &c.  See Conveyances, 4, 5.     3.  Any Two County Justices on Complaint of Indians, may go upon their Lands, and finding their Complaint to be true, may issue their Warrant to the Sheriff to put out any intruding Persons, and deliver peaceable Possession to the Indians.  See Indians Lands,  17.     4.  Two County Magistrates may take Inspectors Bonds.  See Inspectors, 12.     5.  Two Justices may take Probat of a County Clerk's Bond.  See Records, 3.     6.  Two County Justices may take Special Bail on Provincial Writs.  See Special Bail, 1.     7.  Two County Justices are impowered to supersede Execution of Judgment rendered in the Provincial Court.  See Stay of Execution, 1-5.     See Passes, 5.  Warehouses, 7. U.    V. VACANCY of a Parish.  See Vestry, 26, 28, 29. VAGRANTS.  See Hog-stealing, 3. VALUATION of Condemned Slaves.  See Negroes,     20, 36, 42, 45. VESTRY.     1.  Select Vestries to be in every Parish, and the Number of Vestrymen to be always Six at the least. 1702, ch. 1, §. 7.     2.  The Incumbent for the Time being in every Parish, and residing therein, shall be one of the Vestry, and Principal thereof, tho' there be Six or more besides. Ibid.  §. 9.     3.  In case of Death, Resignation, or other legal Discharge of any Vestryman, the Freeholders Inhabitants of the Parish, shall be summoned by the remaining Part of the Vestry to elect (by a Majority of Voices) some sober, discreet Freeholder of the same Parish to supply the Vacancy.  Ibid.  §. 7.     4.  Vestrymen, so chosen, shall take the Oaths to the Government, and also the Oath of a Vestryman, and subscribe the Test; and having so done, and not before, shall be deemed Vestrymen.  Ibid.  (See also 1715, ch. 30, §. 4.)     5.  The Oaths on the Election of a New Vestry, shall be administered by some Justice of the County, &c.  But on Elections afterwards shall be administered either by a County Magistrate, or by the first Vestryman.  Ibid.     6.  Two new Vestrymen shall be annually chosen (in the Place of Two others who shall be left out) by Election of all the Freeholders within the Parish who shall think fit to repair to the Parish Church on

VESTRY. Easter-Monday, yearly.  Which Persons so elected, on taking the Oaths, &c. shall become Members of the Vestry.  Ibid.  §. 8.     7.  The Two eldest Vestrymen shall be annually left out, nor shall either of them be liable to be chosen, or obliged to serve, for Three Years next ensuing. 1730, ch. 23, §. 2.     8.  Any Person elected a Vestryman, and refusing or neglecting (on convenient Notice given him by the Register, who is required to give such Notice on Penalty of 1000 lb Tobacco) to be present at the next Meeting of the Vestry, and there to qualify as a  Vestryman (without a reasonable Excuse) shall forfeit 1000 lb Tobacco.  Which Fine, as well as that on the Register as aforesaid, shall be recoverable in his Lordship's Name, in the County Court, and applied to the Use of the parish.  And every acting Vestryman or Register is required to inform the next County Court of such Refusal or Neglect; which Court shall order Prosecution.  Ibid.  §. 2 and 5.     9.  But Persons publicly known to be of any Religious Profession different from the Church of England established by Law, shall not be liable to such Choice or Penalties.  Ibid.  §. 6.     10.  The Vestry are impowered and directed to proceed to the Choice and Election of some other Person in the Place of any one chosen a Vestryman, and refusing or neglecting to act as aforesaid.  And the former Choice of such Person so refusing, &c. shall be void.  Ibid.  §. 3.     11.  Each Vestry shall appoint a fit Persons for a Register or Clerk, and may allow him any Quantity not exceeding 1000 lb Tobacco yearly; which they may raise (on Application to the County Court) by equal Assessment on the taxable Parishioners.  1702, ch. 1, §. 10; and 1730, ch. 23, §. 7.     12.  The Register, so appointed, shall take the Oaths to the Government, &c. and also on Oath, to be given him by the Vestry, for the due and faithful executing his Office, before he shall be admitted into the same. 1702, ch. 1, §. 10.     13.  The Register shall keep a true and fair Registry of all Vestry Proceedings, and make just and true Entries thereof, and of all Births, Marriages and Burials, (Negroes and Mulattoes excepted,) with their respective Dates; and shall have Six-pence for every such Entry. Ibid.     14.  Parents, Guardians, Overseers, Masters, &c. of Persons Born, Married, or Buried, shall give Notice to the Register within Two Months after such Marriage, Birth, or Burial, and pay him the Fee for entering it; on Penalty of 100 lb Tobacco, for neglecting or refusing so to do.  And the Register refusing or neglecting to make such Entry, (having received his Fee for the same,) shall forfeit 100 lb Tobacco.  Ibid.     15.  The Fines in the preceding Article are to be recovered before a single Magistrate:  One Moiety to the Parish Charge, and the other to the Informer. 1730, ch. 23, §. 4.     16.  The Register or Clerk shall shew such Register of Births, &c. to any person reasonably requiring it, and give Certificate of any Births, Marriages or Burials, required, and shall have Six-pence for every Search, and Six-pence for every Certificate.  Registers of Births, &c. heretofore made by County Clerks, under former laws, are confirmed.  1702, ch. 1, §. 10.     17. Register-Books, well bound and sufficient, shall be provided, where wanting, by the Vestry, at the Parish Charge, within Six Months from the End of this Session; on Penalty of 500 lb Tobacco each Vestryman neglecting, the Minister only excepted.  Ibid. §. 11.     18.  Vestries are obliged to meet once a Month, or as oft as Need shall require, on Public Notice given by the principal Vestryman.  And no Vestryman, T