Acts. 261

County Court of this Province to the Provincial Court or from
the Provincial Court to the Governour and Councill no such
Judgment shall be revert'd for want of Judicial process or that
the same was not tryed by a Jury or any matter of forme
either in the Entry or giving Judgment Provided it appears by
the record that the Defendant was legally Sumond and not
condemnd unheard.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Servants imported into this Province or any Servant that binds
himself for years within this Province or any bound out by the
County Courts of this Province that if any Matter of Dispute
arises either in relation to their Indentures Contracts or wages
or any other Matter of Difference between the said Masters
and Servants the same shall be tryed heard and determined
by Petition as aforesaid any Law Statute or Usage to the Con-
trary notwithstanding —
And be it enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid that no Negro or other Slave within this Province
shall be permitted to carry any Gunn or any other Offensive
Weapon from off their Masters land without lycense from
their said Master And if any Negro or other Slave shall pre-
sume so to do he shall be lyable to be carryed before a Justice
of Peace and be whipt and his Gunn or other Offensive
Weapon shall be forfeited to him that shall seize the same and
carry such Negro so offending before a Justice of peace.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid that from and after the end
of this Sessions of Assembly any Servant or Servants what-
soever within this Province that shall feloniously take or pur-
Ioine his or their Master Mistress or Dames goods or Chattells
under the value of one thousand pounds of Tobacco shall be
adjudg'd ffelons And being thereof lawfully convict in any
County Courts of this Province shall be adjudg'd to pay four
times the value of such goods so purloin'd to his or their
Master Mistress or Dame which he she or they shall make
good by servitude after the expiration of the first time of Ser-
vice and shall also suffer such pains of whipping or pilloring
as the Justices before whom such Matter is brought shall ad-
judge.

September 29^th 1704 September 29^th 1704

Read and Assented to by Read and Assented to by her
the house of Delegates Ma^tys hon^ble Councill
W Taylard Clk hD. W Bladen Cl Concil.

Maryland Oct. 3^d 1704

On behalf of her Majesty &c I will this be a Law
Jn^o Seymour

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