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Bacon
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Sheriff is hereby authorized and required (such Time limited
as aforesaid, being expired) immediately to give Public Notice
to all Persons, by setting up Notes at the Church and Court-
house Doors of the County where such Servant or Slave is in
Custody, of the Time and Place for Sale of such Servants or
Slaves by him to be appointed, not less than Ten Days after
such Time limited as aforesaid, being expired; and at such
Time and Place by him appointed as aforesaid, to proceed to
sell and dispose of such Servant or Slave to the highest Bidder,
and out of the Money or Tobacco which such Servant or Slave
is sold for, to pay himself all such Imprisonment Fees as are
his just Due, for the Time he has kept such Servant or Slave
in his Custody, and also to pay such other Charges, Fees or
Reward, as has become due to any Person for taking up such
Runaway Servant or Slave ; and after such Payments made, if
any Residue shall remain of the Money or Tobacco such
Servant or Slave was sold for, such Sheriff shall only be
accountable to the Master or Owner of such Servant or Slave,
for such Residue or Remainder as aforesaid, and not other-
wise.
III. And in case any Sheriff, or the Buyer of such Servant
or Slave, or others concerned in the Execution of this Act,
shall be sued by any Person or Persons for any Matter or
Thing done, or to be done, in pursuance hereof, it shall and
may be lawful for every such Person or Persons so sued, to
plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Mat-
ter in Evidence, and in case of Non-suit, Discontinuance, or
Verdict against the Plaintiff, the Court shall award double
Costs of Suit.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act,
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon.
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Chap. III
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A Supplementary Act to the Act for causing Grand and Petit
Jurors, and Witnesses to come to the Provincial and County
Courts, and ascertaining their Allowances.
To Prevent Jurors from taking, and Suitors from giving,
larger Sums for a Verdict than is allowed by Law ; whereby
it is obvious that some Persons (who have more frequent
Trials by Jurors than others) have endeavoured to raise a
general Expectation in Jurors of larger Donations from them
than from their Adversaries, thereby endeavouring to incline
them to their Favour: For Prevention whereof for the
future;
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