III. Provided
always,
That such Tobacco-House, or other Out-Houses
shall be well Boarded, or otherwise substantially Built, and the Door
or Doors
thereof Secured with a Lock or Locks, or Bolted in the Inside, or Nailed.
IV. And be it
likewise Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That any person or Persons, who, after the said Tenth Day
of
September, shall Steal any Ship, Sloop, or other Vessel whatsoever,
out of
any Place within the Body of any County within this Province, of Seventeen
Feet, or upwards, by the Keel, and shall carry the same Ten Miles,
or upwards,
from the Place whence it shall be Stolen; or who shall Steal any Negro,
or other Slave; or who shall counsel, hire, aid, abet, or command,
any Person or Persons to commit the said Offences; or who shall be Accessaries
to the said Offences, and shall be thereof legally Convicted, as aforesaid,
or Out-lawed; or who shall obstinately, or of Malice, stand Mute, or peremptorily
Challenge above Twenty, shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons,
and be excluded the Benefit of Clergy.
V. Provided always,
That
when and a often as any Slave or Slaves shall
be Convict for any Offence, contrary to this or any other Law, and
shall be
actually Executed, or who shall Die after Condemnation, and under Confinement
in order for Execution, that the Owner shall be paid the full Value
of such Slave or Slaves; such Value to be adjudged by the Court before
whom the Fact shall be Tried, at the Time of the Condemnation of such
Slave or Slaves.
VI. And be it
further Enacted,
That the Treasurer or Treasurers of this
Province, for the Time being, upon a Certificate from the Sheriff, of the
Execution of any such Slave or Slaves, or the Death of such Slave or
Slaves
after Conviction, and under Confinement in order for Execution, immediately
shall pay the Owner or Owners of such Slave or Slaves, what such
Slave shall be valued at, as aforesaid, out of the Public Stock of this
Province,
in the Hands of such Treasurer or Treasurers, without Fee or Reward.
VII. This Act to continue Three Years, and
to the End of the next Session
of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Farther continued by 1740, ch. 6; 1744, ch.
17; 1747, ch. 14; 1751, ch. 2; 1754, ch., 4;
1757, ch. 24; and 1762,
ch. 5.
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II.
Such Houses
being well
secured.
Penalty on
Persons Stealing
Boats,
&c. upwards
of 17 Feet
Keel;
or Stealing
Negroes.
The full Value
of Slaves
actually executed,
or dying
under
Sentence, to
be paid to
the Owner.
The Treasurer
to pay
such Value,
on Certificate
of the Sheriff.
Duration. |
