238 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

employed to the said Guardians or Trustees use and benefitt
and the like number of Slaves and of the like ability of body
be return'd to the said orphans out of their increase if any be
at their full age by this law limitted and if any of the said
Slaves be grown aged or otherwise impotent or belamed and
that the increase will not make the originall Stock good as to
the Number and ability of body that then they shall be again
appraised by the said County Courts and the guardians or
trustees shall pay to the orphans so much mony or Tobacco
as the County Courts shall adjudge the Orphans stock of
Negroes then to be of less value than they were at the time of
their first appraisment and delivery of their said slaves to the
said Guardians or Trustees but in Case no guardian or other
person will upon those terms accept of those Slaves then it
shall and may be lawfull for the said Severall and respective
County Courts to put the said Slaves out upon other terms to
any other person so that the said originall stock of Slaves be
not sold nor any of their increase but in the best Manner pre-
serv'd for the orphans till they come to their severall ages by
this Act limitted & appointed to the intent they may have
their first Stock made good to them in number value and
ability of body if it may be.

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8 That all Servants for years be likewise return'd in kind to
the orphans at their full age (that is to say) the same number
at the same age and sex and by like number of years to serve
and of the same ability of body as near as can be estimated as
the Servants were when received by the guardian or Trustees.
And to the end that after Distribution made as aforesaid
the acco' thereof may not be neglected to be transmitted to the
Severall and respective Justices of the County Courts as before
is directed
Be it enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid that if such Judge for
probatt of Wills Commissary or Commissarys Generall shall
not within two months after distribution made as aforesaid
transmitt the account thereof as before by this Act is directed
to the severall and respective Justices of the County Courts
where the Estate shall be and remaine he or they shall forfeit
and pay to our Sovereign Lady the Queen her heires and Suc-
cessors the sume of tenn thousand pounds of Tobacco of which
one moyety for the support of Government of this Province
the other moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same
by action of Debt bill plaint or information wherein no Essoyn
protection or wager of Law to be allowed.
9 Whereas every Administrator in an Inventary inserteth
what Debts are Sperate and what Debts are desperate the Judge
for probatt of Wills shall transmitt those desperate Debts of the