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1 GEORGE I.
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CHAP.
XLIV.
adjudged Felony.
The Servant
to pay Four-fold,
&c.
Persons taken
up and committed
as suspected
Runaways
shall
not be held in
Custody above
Six Months.
How they
may be discharged
within
that Time,
on paying or
serving for
Imprisonment
Fees,
and for the
taking up.
Sheriffs, &c.
detaining
them longer,
&c. are liable
to Action of
False Imprisonment. |
this Province, shall be adjudged to pay four Times the Value of such
Goods
so purloined to his or their Master, Mistress or Dame, which he, she
or they
shall make Good by Servitude, after the Expiration of their first TIme
of Service:
and shall also suffer such pains of Whipping or Pilloring, as the Justices
before whom such Matter is brought, shall adjudge.
XXXV. And be
it further Enacted, by the
Authority aforesaid, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That when any
Person or Persons (except Negroes and Mulattoes)
shall be found travelling without
Passes as aforesaid, and shall be taken up as
suspected Runaways, and by any Justice
of Peace committed to the Custody
of any Sheriff or Jaylor within
this Province, it shall not be alwful for any
such Sheriff to hold such Person
in Custody longer than Six months:
And if such Person can, at anyTime
within the said Six Months, procure a
Certificate of other Justification
that he or she is no Servant, he or she shall
and may, by order of any two Justices
of the County where such Person is
committed to Prison, be discharged
from any further Imprisonment; he, she
or they serving such Sheriff or
Jaylor, or his Assigns, so many Days as hem
she or they were in Custody of such
Sheriff or Jaylor, or otherwise paying
Ten Pounds of Tobacco per Day, to
such Sheriff or Jaylor, for their Imprisonment
Fees, and no more; and paying unto
such person or Persons who
took up such Person, Two Hundred
Pounds of Tobacco, or serving him, her
or them Twenty Days in lieu thereof.
And if any such Sheriff or Jaylor
shall detain such Person in prison
after such Order of two Justices aforesaid,
or the Expiration of Six Months,
and Payment of Ten Pounds of Tobacco per
Day as aforesaid, such Sheriff or
Jaylor shall be liable to an Action of False
Imprisonment; any Law, Statute or
Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
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CHAP XLV.
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Passed 3d
June 1715. |
An Act for ascertaining the Bounds of Lands within this Province.
Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 256. EXP.
N.B. This Act was to commence
the 1st June 1716, and to continue in Force 3 Years, from
that Date.
It as also repealed by 1718, ch. 18, which was Dissented to by his
Lordship. |
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CHAP. XLVI.
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An ACT for the Direction of Sheriffs in their Offices, and restraining
their ill Practices within this Province.
Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 263.
N.B. §. 1 and 2
of this Act are of no use during the Continuance of the Inspection Law
1763, ch.
18. |
No Sheriff,
&c. to seize
Tobacco unstript,
or already
received,
marked
and nailed for
any Merchant
or Others,
except for
Public, &c.
Levies, or the
40 per Poll,
and shall
make Satisfaction
for
the Overplus,
if any,
on Penalty of
2000 lb Tobacco. |
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 no Sheriff, Under-Sheriff,
or Deputy-Sheriff, shall seize any Tobacco unstript, or seize or mark any
Merchant's or Other's Tobacco received, marked and nailed, for any Cause
whatsoever, but only for Levies due to the Public, County, Parish, or for
the Forty per Poll to the Minister: And the several Sheriffs are
hereby impowered
to break the Lock of any Tobacco-house, or other Houses where
Tobacco is or shall be secured with Design to prevent the said Sheriff
from seizing such Tobacco for Levies and Dues aforesaid. And any
Sheriff
so seizing or marking any Hogshead or Hogsheads of Tobacco containing
more than what is justly due for Levies and Dues as aforesaid, without
Satisfaction
to the Person to whom such Tobacco doth belong, as by giving Credit,
or suffering him to take the Overplus out of such Hogshead of Tobacco,
at the Choice of the Party paying or owing the same, shall pay, for every
such Default the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco; one Half to
his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, for Support of Government, the other
Half to the Party grieved; to be recovered in any Court of Record of this |
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