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

Lib. L. L,
No. 64.

they do inhabitt and every of the said Courts are hereby
authorized to Iudge and determine of the age of such Ser-
vants so bought & Cause the same to be entred upon record
And every owner as aforesaid neglecting or refusing to bring
such Servant or Servants before the Court as aforesaid shall
not only stand to the determination of the Court but also for-
feit the sume of one thousand pounds of Tobacco to the
Queen her heires and Successors for the support of Govern-
ment And if any Master or Servant aforesaid be greived with
the determination of the Court he shall within the time deter-
min'd for their Service produce an Authentick Certificate of
such Servants age and shall have remedy to the ages afore
mencond.
And for as much as Disputes have formerly arose at what
time Servants time of Servitude whether by Indenture or
otherwise should comence Be it enacted by the Authority
advice and Consent aforesaid that all servants transported
into this Province whether by Indenture or otherwise and so
bound or adjudg'd as aforesaid shall comence their time of
Service from the first Anchoring of the Vessell within this
Province provided that the Vessell tarry not above fourteen
days after her Entry within the Capes and her first Ancharage
in this Province and all the days such Shipp or Shipps shall
tarry in Virginia above fourteen shall be adjudged part of the
service of such Servant which shall be afterward brought into
Maryland and there sold Any Law Usage or Custom to the
contrary notwithstanding.
And be it also Enacted by the Authority Advice and Con-
sent aforesaid that every Indenture made by any Servant dur-
ing the time of Service by former Indenture or Judgment of
the County Court according to the tenour of this Act shall be
void and not any ways oblige any Servant for longer time

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than by his first Indenture or Judgment of the Court shall be
limitted and appointed
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Con-
sent aforesaid that for all such runnaway Servants or Slaves
that shall be apprehended and taken up in the Province of
Pensilvania or Colony of Virginia and from thence brought
into this Province and delivered to a Magistrate of the County
into which they shall be brought the person for so doing shall
have paid and allowed him by the Master or Owner of such
Runaway four hundred pounds of Tobacco and Casq or forty
shift in mony upon his producing a Certificate from the Justice
or Sheriff of the Delivery of such Runaway Except Servants
or Runaways brought from Accamack into Somersett County
for such only two hundred pounds of Tobacco or twenty Shil-
lings and the like from that side of Virginia next the River