NAVAL OFFICERS. Masters of Ships, &c. to publish the Rates of their Freight, before they take Tobacco on board.  1704, ch. 62, §. 5.     3.  ----Shall receive (or take good Security for the Payment of) Three Pence a Ton, for every Ton Burthen of all Ships coming into this Province, at the Time of Entry, for the Use of the Governor for the Time being:  Except such Ships as are built in or belong to the People of this Province.  1704, ch. 78.     4.  ----Shall put up Copies of the Act for prohibiting the Exportation of the Hides of Neat Cattle, &c. in the most public Part of their Offices; and to have a strict Regard to the due Execution of that Act. 1712, ch. 23, §. 2.     5.  The following Fees, and no more, shall be paid to the several Naval Officers, viz.                s.      d.     For Entering and Clearing a Ship, or        20  :   0         Vessel, above 100 Tons,     -    -    -         ---------- under 100 Tons,    -    -    -       10  :   0     For a Permit,    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -       2  :   6     For an Impost Bond,    -    -    -    -    -         5  :   0     For a Certificate of Goods Imported,         5  :   0     For a Navigation Bond,    -    -    -    -         5  :   0     For every Oath made of Goods,    -    -      1  :   0     For Recording and Transmitting a Ship's          Register,    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -         5  :   0     For Filing and Proving a Certificate, and         Discharging a Navigation Bond,     -    5  :   0     For Certificate to discharge Navigation         Bond,    -    -     -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -  5  :   0 but only one Half the said Fees shall be taken for Vessels built or purchased by Inhabitants of this Province, whose Owners are all actual Residents therein. 1717, ch. 2, §. 3.     6.  Naval Officers shall put up a fair Table of their Fees in their several Offices, under Penalty of 50 l. Sterling; one Half to the Support of Government, the other to the Informer.  Ibid.  §. 4.     7.  ----Shall keep a Copy of the Act to prevent the Injuring of Harbours, &c. set up in some public Place of their Offices, on Forfeiture of 10 l. Currency. 1735, ch. 16, §. 4.     8.  ----Shall give Bond, on or before the 10th of November 1751, with Two sufficient Sureties, to his Lordship, in the Sum of 1000 l. Sterling, for the Use of the Public of this Province, &c. before a Provincial Magistrate: Which Bonds shall not be affected by the Act of Limitation; and shall, by the Justice taking the same, be lodged with the Clerk of the Council, to be kept in the Council Office.  1751, ch. 20.     See Annapolis, 2, 5.  Bacon, &c. 2-4.  Convicts,         3-6.  Country Bottoms, per Tot.  Freight         of Tobacco, 5.  Gold and Silver, per Tot.  Governor,         1.  Irish Servants, per Tot.  Letters         Public, 3.  Liquors Imported, per Tot.  Masters         of Ships, 3, 4.  Negroes, 8-17.  Oxford, 2, 4.         Pitch, Tar and Pork, per Tot. Public Charges,         per Tot.  Support of Government, per Tot.         Tobacco Inspected, 3, 8, 10. NAVIGATION BONDS.     1.  The Attorney-General shall have no Fees on any Navigation Bond put in Suit, where Certificate appears to have been lodged in the Secretary's Office; nor on Bonds for Country Dues, where such Bonds appear not to have been forfeited.  But, if he prosecute without just Cause, he shall not only lose his own Fees, but shall pay the Secretary's Fees, and all the Defendant's Charges.  1715, ch. 48, §. 4.     2.  Navigation, Sheriff's, and other Bonds, taken in his Majesty's Name, being put in Suit, shall be endorsed, viz.  If a Navigation Bond, for whom the Person was Bound, and in what Year:  If a Sheriff's Bond, or Bond taken in any of his Majesty's Offices, at whose Request it was sued:  And for want of such Endorsement the Writ shall abate, and the Party grieved recover Costs against the Attorney that sued forth the Writ.  Ibid.  §. 5.

NECESSARY LIVELIHOOD.  See Attachment, 6. NEGROES.     1.  All Negroes and other Slaves, and their Issue, shall be Slaves during their natural Lives. 1715, ch. 44, §. 23.     2.  No Negro, by receiving the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, is hereby manumitted, nor hath any Right to Freedom more than he had before.  Ibid.  §. 24.     3.  Any White Woman, suffering herself to be got with Child by a Negro, or other Slave, or by a Free Negro, shall, if Free, become a Servant for Seven Years; if a Servant, shall finish her Servitude, together with Satisfaction for Damage, and shall again become a Servant for Seven Years.  Ibid.  §. 26.     4.  Any Free Negro, begetting such Child, shall become a Servant for Seven years; and the Children of such inordinate Copulations shall be Servants till Thirty-one Years of Age.  Ibid.  §. 27.     5.  Any White Man begetting any Negro Woman with Child, (whether Free Woman or Servant) shall undergo the same Penalties as White Women.  Ibid. §. 28.     6.  These Times of Servitude (by Art. 3, 4, 5,) shall be disposed of by the County Court; and the Produce appropriated towards defraying the County Charge.  Ibid.     7.  No Negro, or other Slave, shall be permitted to carry Gins, or other offensive Weapons, from off their Master's Land, without Leave:  And any Slave, presuming so to do, may be carried before a Magistrate, and whipped; and the Gun or other Weapon shall be forfeited to the Person seizing the same.  Ibid.  §. 33.     8.  Persons importing Negroes into this Province, by Land or Water, (except such as are imported in Country  Bottoms, for which see Country Bottoms) shall pay to the Naval Officer of the District, at the Time of Entry, Twenty Shillings Sterling for each Negro so imported, towards defraying the public Charges of the Province; on Penalty of 5 l. Sterling per Poll for every Negro kept back or unaccounted for:  One Half to the Use aforesaid, the other Half to the Informer. 1715, ch. 36, §. 8.     9.  An Additional Duty of Twenty Shillings Current Money, per Poll, shall be paid as aforesaid, for every Negro imported into this Province, by Land or Water; and applied to the Encouragement of One Public School in each County, to be divided in equal Shares.  And the Imported shall forfeit 5 l. Current Money for every Negro kept back or unaccounted for: One Half towards defraying the Public Charge, the  other Half to the Informer.  1717, ch. 10, §. 3 and 4. Which Additional Duty is declared to be payable for all Negroes imported in Country Bottoms.  1728,  ch. 8, §. 4 and 5.     10. No Inhabitant of this Province, nor Persons who shall import themselves and Families to settle here, shall be liable to pay the above Impositions for their own proper and domestic Slaves, which they may have Occasion to bring into, or import with them, into this Province.  Provided the Owners of such Negroes repair tot he Naval Officer within Two Days after such Importation, and make Entry of them by their proper Names, as their domestic Slaves; and give Bond, with one good Surety, in the Sum of 500 l. Currency, that they shall not dispose of such Negroes for Three Years. Of which Entry and Bond the Naval Officer shall give a Certificate, on paying the usual Fees for the same. And such Certificate shall exempt the Owner from paying the aforementioned Imposition on Negroes.  1721, ch. 9, §. 2.     11.  When Negroes, so Entered and Exempted from the Duties aforesaid, shall, by Death of the Owners, fall into the Hands of Executors, &c. within the Time herein limited, who may be under a Necessity of disposing of the same, such Executor shall first pay the Naval Officer the Imposition Money aforesaid, and then may sell or dispose of such Negroes.  Ibid.  §. 3.