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Women and their Issue are, for having Mulatto Bastards, by the
Act entitled, An Act relating to Servants and Slaves.
III. And be is further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by
and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That from and after
the End of this present Session of Assembly, that all Free Negro
Women, having Bastard Children by White Men, and their Issue,
shall be subject to the same Penalties that White Women are, by the
Act aforesaid, for having Bastards by Negro Men.
IV. And be it -further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by
and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the same Method
of Proceeding to Judgment, upon any Matter within this Act, be the
same as is prescribed by the Act entitled, An Act relating to Ser-
vants and Slaves.
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Chap. V
[Supple-
ment to
1702, ch. 1;
the Proprie-
tary dis-
sented by
proclama-
tion dated
May 7, 1730]
p. 10
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A Supplementary Act to the Act, entituled, an Act for the Estab-
lishment of Religious Worship in this Province, according to the
Church of England, and for the Maintainance of Ministers :
Whereas by the Act entituled, An Act for the Establishment of
Religious Worship in this Province, according to the Church of
England, and for the Maintainance of Ministers, Select Vestries in
each Parish of this Province, are directed to be chosen in the Man-
ner, and with the Qualifications mentioned by the said Act, and Two
new Vestry-Men Annually chosen, in the Place of two others, who
should be left out: But that no Provision is made by the said Act
for obliging such Person or Persons who should be chosen by
Virtue of the aforesaid Act, as a Vestry-Man or Vestry-Men, to
serve and act in the Duty and Office of a Vestry-Man or Vestry-
Men; nor any Directions prescribed by the said Act, in what Order
or Method the two Vestrymen directed by the said Act to be An-
nually left out, should be so left out,
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That if any Person or Persons, shall, after this Sessions
of Assembly, be chosen and elected by Virtue of the aforesaid Act,
as a Vestry-Man, or Vestry-Men, in any Parish of this Province,
and being so chosen, or elected, shall (after convenient Notice
thereof to him or them given, by the Register of the respective
Parish or Parishes, where he or they shall be so chosen and elected,
as aforesaid,) refuse or neglect to repair to, and be present at the
next Meeting of such Vestry or Vestries, and there qualify him or
themselves, as such Vestry-Man or Vestry-Men, without a reason-
able Excuse, after such Notice given to them as aforesaid; and
Notice of such Meeting to be given to him or them by the said Reg-
ister, who is hereby directed and required to give such Notice, under
the Penalty and Forfeiture of One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco;
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