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on which such Execution shall be on the Certificate of such Sheriff
out of the Publick Stock of this Province in the hands of such
Treasurer without fee or Reward to the Master or Owner of such
Slave in Case the said Slave shall be Actually Executed And Be it
further Enacted that where any Slave shall be Guilty of Rambling
rideing or Going a Broad in the night or rideing Horses in the Day
time without Leave or running away it shall & may be Lawfull for
the Justices of the County Court & they are hereby Oblidged upon
the Application or Complaint of the Master or Owner of such Slave
or on the Application or Complaint of Any other Person who shall
be any ways Damnified or Injured by such Slave Immediately such
Slave to Punish by whipping Cropping or Branding in the Cheek
with the Letter R or otherwise not Extending to life or to render

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such Slave unfit for Labour And be it Likewise Enacted that if
Any Slave shall happen to be slain for refusing to Surrender him
or her self Contrary to Law or in Unlawfull resisting any Officer or
other Person Appointed to Apprehend him or her that in Every such
Case such slave shall be Valued by two reputable Persons not being
of kin to the Master or owner of such Slave upon oath to be Ad-
ministred to them and to be Appointed by the then nearest Magis-
trate well and Truly to Value what such Slave was worth to the best
of their knowledge without favour or Partiality And that the whole
Value of such Slave or Slaves shall be Certified by such Persons to
such Magistrate and that the same shall be paid to the Owner or
Owners of such Slave or Slaves by the Treasurar of the Respective
Shoar of this Province on which the same Death hapned upon a
Certificate from the said Magistrate of the Death & Value of such
Slave or Slaves out of the Publick Stock of this Province in the
hands of such Treasurer without fee. or Reward And be it further
Enacted that if any free Person shall Entice & Perswade any Slave
within this Province to run away and who shall Actually run away
from the Master Owner or Overseer and be Convicted thereof by
Confession or Verdict of a Jury upon an Indictment or Information
shall forfeit & Pay the full Value of such Slave to the Master or
Owner of such Slave to be Levied by Execution on the Goods Chat-
ties Lands or Tenements of the Offender & in Case of Inability to
pay the same shall Suffer one years Imprisonment without Bail or
Mainprize And that if any white. Servant shall Intice or Perswade
any such Slave to run away and who shall Actually runaway that the
Offender shall after the Expiration of his time of Servitude become
a Servant to the Master or Owner of such Slave for & During the
Term of four years or Satisfie and Pay to the Master or Owner the
Value of such Slave to be Adjudged in Either Case at the Tryal by
the Court before whom the fact shall be tried & that the fact may be
tryed within the County where the Offences shall be Committed or
where the Offender or Offenders shall be Taken or Apprehended and