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Instantly upon her Intermarriage as aforesaid, from the Services Employments use Claim
or demands of any such Mr Mrs or dame so offending as aforesaid, And all Children
bom of such freeborn women, so manumitted & free as aforesaid shall be free as the
women so married as aforesaid, as also the said Mar Mrs & dame shall forfeit the sum of
Ten Thousand pounds of Tobacco, one half thereof to the Lord Proprietary & the other
half to him or them that shall Inform & sue for the same to be Recovered in any Court of
Record within this Province by Bill plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin protection
or wager of Law to be allowed. Any priest Minister Magistrate or other person
whatsoever, within this Province that shall from & after the Publication hereof Join in
Marriage any Negro or other Slave to any English or other whitewoman Servant freebom
as aforesaid shall forfeit & pay the sum of Ten Thousand pound of Tobacco, one half to
the Lord Proprietary & the other half to the Informer or the person grieved, to be
Recovered by action of debt bill plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this
Province, wherein no Essoin Protection or wager of Law to be allowed, And be it further
enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that one Act entitled an Act Concerning Negroes and
Slaves be & is hereby utterly Repealed & made void, Provided that all matters & things
relating in the said Act to the marriage of Negroes with freebom women & their Issue are
firm & valid according to the true intent & purport of the said Act until this present time
of the Repeal thereof, any thing in this Act to the Contrary Notwithstanding.
120. Russell R. Menard, "From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake
Labor System." XVI Southern Studies 372 (1977V
121. Main, supra note 8, at 100.
122. Bureau of the Census, supra note 45, at 1168. It estimates that in 1690 there were 2162
blacks in a total population of 24,024.
123. Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan, Maryland's Revolution of Government 1689-
1692(1974).
124. Xin Maryland Archives 292.
125. Id at 390.
126. Id_at457.
127. Id at 3304.
128. Id at 306-7.
129. Id at 308.
130. Id at 290.
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