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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, September, 1704-April, 1706
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Potomack for which said Sume or Sums paid such runaway
shall make Satisfaction when free by Service or otherwise
more than the ten days for one as the Court shall adjudge
But if such person so apprehended brought and delivered as
aforesaid be a freeman and refuse to pay such Sume or
Sumes of Tobacco or mony then and in such Case the Magis-
trate before whom he shall be brought shall forthwith comitt
the said person so refusing to prison till he give sufficient
Security or make full Satisfaction by Servitude or otherwise.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
if any Master or Mistress of any Servant whatsoever or over-
seer by order or consent of any such Master or Mistress shall
deny and not provide Sufficient Meat drink lodging and Cloth-
ing or shall unreasonably burthen them beyond their strength
with labour or debarr them of their necessary rest and sleep
or excessively beat and abuse them the same being suffici-
ently proved before the Justices of the County Courts the said
Justices have hereby full power and Authority for the first
and second offence to levy such ffine upon such Offender as
to them shall seem meet not exceeding one thousand pounds
of Tobacco to the use of her Majesty her heires and Succes-
sors for the Support of Government and for their third Offence
to sett such Servant so wrong'd at liberty and free from Ser-
vitude —

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

And be it also further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that all Negroes and other Slaves already imported or here-
after to be imported into this Province and all Children now
borne or hereafter to be borne of such Negroes and Slaves
shall be slaves during their Naturall lives —
And for as much as many people have neglected to baptize
their Negroes or Suffer them to be baptized on a vain Appre-
hension that Negroes by receiving the Sacrament of Baptism
are manumitted and sett free
Be it hereby further declared and enacted by and with the
Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid that no Negro or
Negroes by receiving the holy Sacrament of Baptisme is
hereby manumitted or sett free nor hath any right or title to
freedom or Manumission more than he or they had before any
law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
any White woman either free or a Servant that shall Suffer
herself to be begott with Child by a negro or other slave or
free Negro such Woman so begott with child as aforesaid if
free shall become a Servant for and during the term of Seven
years If a Servant shall finish her time of servitude together
with the damage that shall accrew to such person to whom
she is a Servant by occasion of any Child or Children begotten

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