Acts. 323

have in buying or getting such money goods or Apparell as
such psons soe Absenting or flying from Justice afd have
with them Generally money goods or apparrell by them feloni-
ously purloyned from their Masters or other Owners by
which meanes they may more Easily Travell to any other
Governm^t in prevention and delay of Justice and to the great
Damage of such Credittors Masters or Owners aforesaid —
Be itt therefore Enacted by the Authority afd by and with
the Advice and Consent afd that from and after the publication
hereof no person or persons Inhabiting or being att the head
of the Bay or in any other part of this province shall Trans-
port or Convey or Cause to be Transported or Conveyed
over Susquehanna River afd or any part of the Bay Above
the North side of Sasafras River on the Eastern shore of the
bay or over Potomack or Pocomoke Rivers into the Colony
of Virginia not having passes soe procured as afd or a Cer-
tificate from under the hand of two Justices of the peace of
the County where such person or persons Intending to
Travell shall Inhabitt and the County Scale affixed Certifying
the ffreedome of such persons and that he or she or they are

C. P.

Clear to the best of their knowledge from any Engagements
Impeding their Travelling as afd on penalty of answering all
such Debts or Damages to Credittors Masters or other Owners
of Servants to be recovered as by this Law is provided against
such as shall Actually sett them out of this province
And be itt further Enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent afd that whatsoever person or persons shall from
hence forth Entice Transport or Secretly Carry or send away
out of this province any Apprentice or other Servants or
Slaves belonging to any Inhabitants in this province shall
for Every such Offence fforfeit and pay to the Imployer or
owner of such Apprentice or other Servant or Slave Treble
Damages and Costs to be Adjudged by the Justices of Each
respective County Court or the Justices of the provinciall
Court for the time of such Apprentices or other Servants or
Slaves Unlawfully being Transported or Carryed away as afd

An Act for secureing persons rights To Town Lands.

Whereas itt is represented to this Gen" Assembly that
Sev^ll persons of this province and others that have taken up
Lotts in Sev^ll Town Lands Laid out and Surveyed for Towns

p. 202

According to the Directions of Sev^ll Laws of this province
heretofore made (that is to say) one Law made att a Gen^ll
Assembly held att the Ridge in Ann Arundll County the
second day of October one thousand Six hundred Eighty

p. 203