CHAP.
XIX.
which if not
under written
in 3 Months,
a Pass may be
granted.
The Secretary's
and
Clerk's Fees.
Persons may
have a Pass,
on giving Security
for
Payment of
their Country
Debts, without
setting up
Notes.
Masters of
Ships, &c.
conveying Debtors, by
Land or Water,
out of
this Province,
shall be
liable to all
Country
Debts, &c.
Persons conveying
Servants
out of
this Province,
shall satisfy
Damages to
the Owners.
Persons conveying
Debtors
or Servants
into
Pensylvania or
Virginia,
without Passes,
on a Certificate
from
two County
Magistrates
under the
County Seal,
&c. shall be
to
the Creditors,
Masters, &c.
for all Debts
or Damages. |
shall first give Notice of their intended Departure, by
setting up his, her, or their Name or Names at the Secretary's Office
of this
Province, and also at the Door of the Court-house of the County where
such
Persons resides at the Time of setting up such Name as aforesaid, the
full
Space of Three Months; that if in the Time aforesaid, no Person shall
underwrite
the said Person or Persons so setting up his, her, or their respective
Name or Names as aforesaid, it shall be then lawful for the Governor,
keeper
of the Great-Seal, or Secretary of this Province, for the Time being,
upon
Certificate thereof from the Clerk of the Provincial Court, and the
Clerk of
such County, where such Name shall be set up as aforesaid, to sign
a Pass or
Passes to any such Person or Persons, to depart this Province; for
which the
Party shall pay to the Secretary for signing the same, the Sum of Two
Shillings
and Sixpence, and to the Clerk of the Provincial and County Courts
Twelve pence each. And if any Person or Persons, upon any sudden
or emergent
Occasion, are necessitated to depart this Province, not having set
up
his, her, or their Names at the Secretary's Office, and County Court-house
Door as aforesaid, then such Person or Persons, giving good and sufficient
Security
to the Governor, Keeper of the Great Seal, or Secretary, to discharge
and pay all Debts, Dues and Demands whatsoever, due, owing, or demandable
from the said person to any of the Inhabitants of this Province, then
the
said Person or Persons may have a Pass, containing a Certificate of
such Security
given; for which shall be paid the same Fee as aforesaid.
II. And be it
further Enacted, That any Master
of Ships or Vessels, or other
Persons whatsoever, that shall transport
or convey out of this Province,
by Land or Water, any Person being
indebted by Bill, Bond, or Account, or
otherwise, to any Inhabitant thereof,
without such pass or Passes under the
Hand of the Governor, Chancellor
or Secretary as aforesaid, shall be liable
to satisfy all such Debts, Engagements
and Damages, to the Person or Persons
to whom such Debts or Damages respectively
shall be due, within this
Province, except the same be otherwise
satisfied; or that the Transporter or
Conveyor away of such Person or
Persons, procure such person or Persons to
return again within One Month after,
whereby he may be liable to Justice
here.
III. And
every
such Person as aforesaid, as shall transport, or convey away
out of this Province, any Servant or Servants, being Servants here by Condition/
for Wages, Indenture, or Custom of the COuntry, shall be liable to
pay and satisfy unto the Master or Owner of such Servant or Servants so
carried away, all such Damages, as he or they shall make appear to be justly
due to such Master or Owner, for want of such Servants; as the Court before
whom such Cause shall be tried, shall think fit.
IV. And
whereas
several ill-minded People, inhabiting
and residing at the
Head of the Bay, have commonly set Persons over the Head of the Bay, and
Susquehanna River, being either Felons, Debtors, or Runaway Servants
from?
the more remote parts of this Province, for some small Advantage they have
in buying or getting such money, Goods, or Apparel; as such Persons so
absenting,
or flying from Justice aforesaid, have with them generally Money,
Goods or Apparel, by them feloniously purloined from their Masters, and
other
Owners, by which Means they may more easily travel to any other Government,
in Prevention and Delay of Justice, and to the great Damage of
such Creditors, Masters or Owners aforesaid: Be
it therefore Enacted,
by the
Authority aforesaid, by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That from and
after the Publication hereof, no Person or Persons, inhabiting or being
at the
Head of the Bay, or in any other part of this province, shall transport
or
convey, or cause to be transported or conveyed, over Susquehanna
River aforesaid,
or any Part of the Bay, above the
north Side of Sassafras River, on the
Eastern Shore of the Bay; or over Patowmack or Pocomoke Rivers
into the |
