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JOHN HART, Esq; Governor.
1715.
as aforesaid, he shall be fined and imprisoned according to the Direction of
the Justices of the Provincial Court.

    XVII.  And for the preventing of the great Charges of annual Assemblies,
who may meet for no other Occasion but to lay the Public Levy, in Time of
Peace; Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Governor and
Council, during the Intervals of Assemblies, for the Defraying and Payment
of the small Charges of this Province, be and are hereby impowered to assess
the same, equally to be levied upon all the Inhabitants of this Province, for
the Defraying the said small Charges in Time of Peace as aforesaid; any
thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

    XVIII.  Provided always, and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act,
the said Sums for the small Charges of this Province, so to be assessed by the
Governor and Council, upon the Inhabitants of this Province as aforesaid,
exceed not, in any One Year, the Sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco;
and the Disbursements of the same Tobacco to ba accounted for at
the next General Assembly after the raising and disbursing the said Tobacco as
aforesaid,

    XIX.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,  That all Soldiers,
hereafter to be employed in any Public Service within this Province, be
paid in the respective Counties where the said Soldiers live.

    XX.  And be it further enacted, That every Captain, Lieutenant, Cornet
or Ensign, refusing or neglecting to appear at the Time and Place appointed
for Training and Mustering, shall be fined as aforesaid, for every Time he or
they shall refuse or neglect to appear, the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco; to be applied to the Use of the Troop or Company where the Person
so fined doth belong as aforesaid; to be heard, adjudged, determined, and
levied by way of Execution as aforesaid:  An Account of all which Fines,
the several and respective Majors of the several and respective Counties are
hereby obliged to render to the Governor and Council yearly, on Pain of
forfeiting the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco; to be applied to
the Uses aforesaid, and to be heard, adjudged, determined, and levied by the
Colonel, or Lieutenant-Colonel, by way of Execution as aforesaid.

    XXI.  This Act to endure for Three Years, and to the End of the next Session
of Assembly after the End of the said Three Years.
                                    Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN
                                                                                                                            THOMAS BACON.
   Farther continued for 3 Years, &c. by 1729, ch. 1.  But by 1722, ch. 15, it is revived and
        continued in full Force without Limitation.
 

CHAP.
 XLIII.

Governor and
Council, impowered, in
Time of
Peace, to levy
the small
Charge of
the Province
during the
Intervals of
Assembly.

So as the same
do not exceed
50000 lb
Tobacco in
any one Year,
to be accounted
for to the
next Assembly.
 

Soldiers to receive
their
Pay in the
Counties, &c.

Captains,
&c. neglecting
to appear
at Musters,
shall be
fined 200 lb
Tobacco.
The Major of
each County,
shall render
an Account of
all such Fines
yearly to the
Governor,
&c. on Penalty
of 500
lb Tobacco.
Duration.

CHAP. XLIV.
An ACT relating to Servants and Slaves.  Lib. LL. N° 4. fol. 246. Passed 3d
June 1715.
Supplementary Acts, 1717, ch. 13; 1719, ch. 2; 1728, ch. 4; and 1748, ch. 19.
WHEREAS there have been several Acts provided against Servants,
Runaways, which have hereto proved ineffectual, in regard they
do not sufficiently provide Encouragement for such Person or Persons,
Inhabitants of this province, as should seize such Runaways, or Servants,
by this Act deemed Runaways:  Therefore for the better Discovery , seizing
and apprehending such Runaways; Be it Enacted, by the King's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Governor, Council,
and Assembly of this Province, and the Authority of the same, That from and
after the Publication hereof, no Servant or Servants whatsoever, within this
Province, whether by Indenture, or according to the Custom of the Country,
or hired for Wages, shall travel by Land or Water, Ten Miles form the
Preamble.
 
 

Servants travelling
ten
Miles from
Home without
a Note
from their
Master, may
be taken up
as Runaways.



 
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