Imported Servants,
punishable by
Imprisonment,
shall
serve their
Owners Day
for Day.
If fined, their
Owners shall
pay the Fines,
and be reimbursed
by
Servitude.
County
Courts to determine
all
Disputes on
this Act.
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Be it Enacted, by the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper
and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
from
and after the End of this Session of Assembly, where any Servant or
Servants
now imported, or which hereafter shall be imported into this Province,
shall by his, her, or their Evil Doings or Actions, commit such Offence
or
Offences, where by the Laws, they subject him, her, or themselves to
Imprisonment,
that in such Case such Servant or Servants shall, and he, she,
or they, are hereby obliged to serve the Master or Masters, Mistress
or Mistresses
of such Servant or Servants, Day for Day, and no more, such master
or Masters, Mistress or Mistresses, shall lose of his, her, or their
Service,
by such Imprisonment.
II. And be it
further Enacted, That if by the Evil doing, or Actions of
such Servant or Servants, he, she, or they, shall be fined for the
Breach of the
Peace, or any law of this Province, at any Time after the End of this
Session,
and that the Master or Masters, Mistress or Mistresses of such Servant
or Servants pay such Fine, such Servant or Servants shall make Satisfaction
by Service, or otherwise, at the Expiration of their first Time of
Servitude,
for such Fine or Fines.
III. And be it
likewise Enacted, That the several and respective Justices
of the several and respective County Courts within this Province, where
the
Case shall happen, shall, and they are hereby obliged and directed,
to hear
and determine any Dispute that may arise between the Master or Masters,
Mistress or Mistresses, and such Servant or Servants, in relation to
the Cases
herein before mentioned, and to adjudge according to the Directions
of this
Act herein before mentioned.
IV. This Act to continue from and after the
End of this present Session of
Assembly, for and during the Term of Three years, and unto the End
of
the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration
of the
said Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Farther continued by 1753, ch.
4;
1757, ch. 4; 1760, ch. 15; and 1763, ch. 9; for 3
Years, &c.
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