142      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681/1682.

     Liber W. C. they are to pay Tenn pounds of tobacco or one shilling in Money,
                 such person or persons If apprehended not being sufficinetly Knowne
         p. 515  or able to give a good accompt of himself to be left to the discression
                 and Judgment of Such Majestrate before whome such pson as
                 aforesaid shall be brought to Judge thereof and if before such
                 Majestrate or Majestrates brought shall be Deemed and taken as
                 a Runaway & shall suffer such fynes and Penaltyes as in the said
                 act is Provided against runawayes and for the better Encourrage
                 ment of all Persons to seize and take up such Runawayes It was
                 also Enacted that all and Every Person and Persons apprehending
                 seizeing and takeing such Runawayes & Persons travaileing without
                 Passes as aforesaid not being able to give a Sufficient account of
                 themselves as aforesaid shall have and receive Two hundred Pounds
                 of Tobacco to be payd by the owner of such runaway soe appre
                 hended and taken up if a Servant, and if a ffreeman & refuseing to
                 pay the same then to make satisfaction by servitude or Otherwise
                 as the Justices of the Provinciall or County Court where such persons
                 shall be soe apprehended & taken upp shall thinke fitt And It was
                 likewise by the authority aforesaid thereby Enacted that at what
                 time soever any of the said psons Runawayes shall be soe seized
                 by any person or persons within this Province Such pson or psons
                 soe seizeing and apprehending the same shall bring or Cawse him
                 or them to be brought before the next Majestrate or Justice of the
                 County where such runaway is apprehended Who is thereby Tm-
                 powered to take into his Custody or Otherwise him her or them to
                 secure and Dispose as he shall thinke fitt untill Such person or
                 persons soe seized or apprehended shall give Security to answere
                 the Premisses the next Court that shall first Ensue in the said
                 County Who is also to secure Such person or Persons till he or
                 they can make Satisfaccôn to the party that shall Soe Apprehend &
                 Seize Such runaway or other person as by the said Act is required
                 as by the said Act Remaining still in force may more at large
                 appeare, And the said John Rousby in fact sayth That Whereas
                 the said John Rousby being an Inhabitant of this Province was
                 upon the Thirteenth day of June Anno Doni 1680 Posessed of two
                 men Servants Called and Knowne by the Names of Christopher
                 Butler a Carver & Symon Staynes a Butcher both wch servants he
                 the said John bought and Purchased of Gilbert Livesay Mrchant
                 the Twelfth day of Decembr 1679 for the sume of six Thousand
                 pounds of Tobacco for the terme of foure yeares from thence next
                 Comeing and being soe as aforesaid Posest of the said two servants
                 they the said two servants upon the said thirteenth day of June
                 168o aforesaid Did Runaway and unlawfully Absent themselves
                 from the service of the said John and being afterwards to wit the
                 fifteenth day of June aforesaid Seized taken up and Apprehended
                 by one William Price of Elke River in Bohemia hundred in Cecill
                 County aforesaid & by him Secured as Runawayes, and being in