from the said Magistrate of the Death and Value of such Slave or
Slaves, out of the Public Stock of this Province, in the Hands of such
Treasurer, without Fee or Reward.
i By 1753,
ch. 26, the Persons so Killing, shall not hereby be exempted from
undergoing a
legal Trial: But if it appear upon Evidence, that such Killing was
done in the lawful Execution
of this Act, then such Person shall not only be acquitted, but also the
Public of this Province
shall pay all the Costs and Charges of such Prosecution.
X. And
be it further Enacted, That if any Free Person shall entice and
persuade any Slave within this Province to Run away, and who shall actually
Run away from the Master, Owner or Overseer, and be convicted thereof,
be Confession, or Verdict of a Jury upon an Indictment or Information,
shall forfeit and pay the full Value of such Slave to the Master or Owner
of
such Slave, to be levied by Execution on the Goods, Chattels, Lands or
Tenements
of the Offender; and in case of Inability to pay the same, shall suffer
One Year's Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize. And that if any
White Servant shall entice or persuade any such Slave to Run away, and
who
shall actually Run away, that the Offender, shall, after the Expiration
of his
Time of Servitude, become a Servant to the Master or Owner of such Slave,
for and during the Term of Four Years, or satisfy and pay to the Master
or
Owner, the Value of such Slave; to be adjudged, in wither case, at the
Trial,
by the Court before whom the Fact shall be tried; and that the Fact may
be
tried either in the County where the Offences shall be committed, or where
the Offender or Offenders shall be taken or apprehended.
XI. And
to the End this Act may be known by all sort of People; Be
it
Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the several Sheriffs
within this Province,
shall read, or cause this Act to be read, at the Court-house Door, on
the Second Day of each of the Four County Courts, in every Year during
the Continuance of this Act, on Pain of forfeiting Five Pounds Current
Money
for every Neglect, to be recovered as aforesaid, with Costs of Suit, by
Indictment or Information, in the Court of the County where such Neglect
shall happen, and be applied to defray the County Charge.
XII. Provided
always, That where any Money shall be paid by virtue of
any Act or Acts of this Province, for any Slave or Slaves who shall
Die in
Goal after Sentence, or shall be executed; It
is hereby Declared and Enacted,
That such Payment shall be made for such Slave or Slaves who were
actual
Inhabitants within this Province, at the Time such Fact committed, and
not
otherwise.
XIII. This Act to continue for Three Years,
and unto 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. |
CHAP.
XIV.
Penalty on
Free Persons
enticing, &c.
any Slave to
Run away;
on any white
Servant guilty
of the
same,
where to be
tried.
Sheriffs to
read this Act
the 2d Day of
each Court,
on Penalty of
5 l.
No condemned
Slave to
be paid for,
who was not
an Inhabitant
at the Time
of the Fact.
Continuance. |
WHEREAS by one Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled, An
Act for the Relief of Anne-Arundel County, and all Persons concerned
in the Records thereof lately Burnt, made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the Town and port of Annapolis, the Fifteenth
Day of
May, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Five, a Commission
issued to several Commissioners therein named, to hear and determine all
Differences,
Claims, and Demands whatsoever, between any the Inhabitants, or
other persons interested in the lands lying within the County aforesaid;
and |
Preamble, reciting
the
Act of 1705,
ch. 1. |
