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224 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669.
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P. R. O.
Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53
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sherriffs Plantacon & in Case the Said Prisoners shall stirr of
the Said sherriffes Plantacon the Said sherriffe shall be Bound
to pursue such Prisoners with hue & crye and if any sheriffe
shall offend herein it shal be Adiudged a voluntary Escape
And the Sheriffe Lyable to pay & Satisfie to the Creditors the
said debt to be Recovered against him by accon of debt or the
Case at the Creditor Elleccon to be Brought in any of his
Lorpps Cors of Record wthin this Province wherein noe Essoyne
pteccon or wager of the Law to be allowed This Act to En-
dure for Three yeares or to the End of the next Genll Assem-
bly which shall ffirst happen
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An Act for prventing servants
& Criminall psons from Runing out of
this Province
Forasmuch as divers Criminals as well as Servants have of
Late Escaped out of this Province into our Neighbours Col-
lonyes & have there bene Entertained & Suffered to passe
through their Territories further out of reach of of Justices much
to the damage of divers of the Inhabitants of this Collony For
Remedy whereof the ffreemen of this Genll Assembly doe
pray tht it may be Enacted & be it Enacted by the Rt Honoble
the Lord Proprietary with the Advise & consent of the vpper
& Lower houses of this psent Genll Assembly & the Authority
of the Same that there be a Logg house Prison Twenty ffoot
Square Built at Augustine Harmans in Batlemore County to
be Comitted to the Charge of some ffaithfull pson Such as
the Leivetent Genll or other his Lorpps Governor of this Pro-
vince for the Time being shall thinke ffitt for the Surety &
Safe keeping of Runnawayes & ffugetives as well such as shall
come to vs from our Neighbour Collonies to the Northward if
pursued & demanded by the Governor there as such as shall
escape from vs into their Territories & precincts when by them
they shall be delivered vnto vs & for the Encouragmt of or
neighbor Govermts to the Northward to doe vs Iustice in this
Case be it ffurther Enacted by the Authority & with the Con-
sent aforesaid that there be a stock of Tenn Thousand pounds
of Tobacco Raysed this next Ensuing Cropp by an Equall
assessmt vpon the psons & Estates of the ffreemen of this
Province & pd in Baltimore County To Augustine Her-
man of the Said County to pay the defrayall Charges
of Building the Prison & of Apprehending & remanding
Runnawayes from deleware Bay or any other of North-
erne Plantacons vpon delivery of the Said runnawayes at
the Prison or Logg howse at Augustine Hermans Aforesaid
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