the Public Treasurer, without any Fee or Reward, out
of the Public Stock, on Certificate from the Sheriff of
such Execution or Death.  Ibid.  §. 5, 6.
    37.  Slaves convicted of consulting, advising, conspiring,
or attempting to raise any Insurrection, or to
murder or poison any Person, or to commit a Rape
upon any White Woman, or to burn any House; or
who shall stand Mute, or peremptorily Challenge above
Twenty Jurors, shall suffer Death without Benefit of
Clergy.  1751, ch. 14, §. 2.
    38.  Slaves convict of attempting to burn any Dwelling-house
or Out-house contiguous to, or used with
any Dwelling-house, or other House wherein shall be
any Person, Goods, Tobacco, Grain or Fodder, shall
suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy.  Ibid.  §. 3.
    39.  Slaves committing any Felony punishable by
Death, shall be committed to the Sheriff of the County,
and tried at the next Assizes or County Court
which shall first happen; which Court is impowered,
on Confession, or Conviction of the Offender, on the
Testimony of one legal Witness, or even of other
Slaves corroborated with such pregnant Circumstances,
as shall satisfy the Jury of the Guilt of such Slaves,
to give Judgment.  Ibid.  §. 4.
    40.  Slaves convict of giving false Testimony against
other Slaves on such Prosecutions, shall have one Ear
cut off, and receive Thirty-nine Stripes, on the Day
of Conviction; and the other Ear to be cut off, and
the like Number of Stripes given the Offender, on t he
Day following.  Ibid.  §. 5.
    41.  Slaves produced as Witnesses on such Occasions,
shall be admonished to declare the Truth, &c. and acquainted
with the Danger of false Swearing, &c. by
the Court.  Ibid.  §. 6.
    42.  Slaves condemned to suffer Death, shall immediately
be valued by the Court, and that whole Value
shall be paid by the Treasurer of the respective Shore
on which such Execution shall be, out of the Public
Stock, to the Owner, on Certificate of the Sheriff, in
Case such Slave be actually executed.  Ibid.  §. 7.
    43.  Slaves guilty of Rambling, Riding, or going
abroad by Night, or riding Horses by Day without
Leave, or Running away, may (on Application of
their Owners, or other Person injured by them) be
immediately punished by the County Court, by Whipping,
Cropping, Branding, or Otherwise, not extending
to Life, or rendering such Slave unfit for Labour.
Ibid.  §. 8.
    44.  Officers or other Persons, endeavouring to apprehend 
any Slave who shall happen to be slain for refusing
to surrender, or unlawfully resisting, &c. shall
be indemnified from any Prosecution for such Killing.
Ibid.  §. 9.  But his Clause shall not be construed to indemnify
any Officer or other Person, killing any Slave
resisting or refusing to surrender, from undergoing a legal
Trial; but such Person may plead the General Issue,
&c.  And if it appear on Evidence, that such Killing
was done in Pursuance of the foregoing Act, such Person
shall be acquitted, and the Public shall pay all the
Costs and Charges of such Prosecution.  1753, ch. 26.
    45.  Slaves so killed, shall be valued by two reputable
Persons, not of Kin to the Owner, to be appointed
and sworn (well and truly to value what such Slave was
worth, to the best of their Knowledge, without Favour or
Partiality) by the then nearest Magistrate; and the
whole Value, certified by them to such Magistrate,
shall be paid to the Owner or his Order, by the Treasurer
of the respective Shore on which such Death happened,
out of the Public Stock, on Certificate of such
Death and Value, by the said Magistrate.  1751, ch. 
14, §. 9
46.  Any Free Person inticing or persuading a Slave
to run away, who shall actually run away, and being
thereof convict, shall forfeit the full Value of such
Slave, to the Owner:  Or, in case of Inability to pay,
shall suffer one Year's Imprisonment, without Bail, &c.
Ibid.  §. 10.

    47.  Any White Servant guilty of the same Offence,
shall, after the Expiration of his Servitude, become a
Servant to the Owner of such Slave for Four Years,
or pay the Value of the Slave; which in either Case,
shall be adjudged at the trial, by the Court before
whom the Fact shall be tried.  Which Trial may be
either in the County where the Offence shall be committed,
or where the Offender shall be apprehended.
Ibid.
    48.  No Money shall be paid for any Slave, either
dying in Goal after Sentence, or executed, unless such
Slave was an actual Inhabitant within this Province,
at the Time of such Fact committed.  Ibid.  §. 12.
    49.  The several Sheriffs, shall cause this Act to be
read at the Court House Door, on the second Day of
each County Court, on Forfeiture of 5 l. Current Money
for every Neglect; to be recovered with Costs, in
the County Court, and applied to the County Charge.
Ibid.  §. 11.
    50.  No Property in any Slave, whereof the Donor
shall retain the Use and Possession, shall be transferred
to any Donee, unless the Gift be under Hand and Seal,
acknowledged before a Provincial Justice, or one Justice
of the County wherein the Donee resides, and recorded
in the County Records within Twenty Days
after Execution of the Deed.  But this Act shall not
make void any Parol Gift, where there shall be an express
Delivery of such Slave in pursuance thereof, and
where the sole Use and Possession of such Slave shall
be transferred to the Donee, nor any Bequest of a
Slave by Will.  1763, ch. 13.
    See Administrators, 6, 7.  Country Bottoms, 2, 7.
        Fieri facias, 6.  Guardians, 10-12.  Harbourers
        of Servants and Slaves, 4, 5.  Manumission of
        Slaves, per Tot.,  Marriage, 12, 13.  Masters
        of Ships, 3-5.  Militia, 3.  Orphans, 9.  Quakers,
        6.  Runaways, per Tot.  Taxables, 1, 2.
NEXT of KINDRED.  See Administrators, 13.  Intestates
    Estates, 1.  Widows, 2, 3.
NON APPEARANCE.  See Inspectors, 45.
NON COMPOS MENTIS.  See Administration Bonds,
    3. Bankrupts, 5. Limitation of Actions, 3, 6, 8.
    Specialties, 2.
NON EST INVENTUS.  See Administration Bonds,
    2.  Arrests, 1.  Attachment, 1, 2.  Small Debts, 1.
NON-RESIDENTS.  See Accounts, 1.  Administrators,
    14.  Bacon, &c. per Tot.  Discount in Bar, 2.

    1.  The Plaintiff, in any Action in the County
Court, shall be Non-suited, where the just Balance of
the Demand doth not exceed 400 lb Tobacco, or 33 s.
4 d. in Money.  1715, ch. 41, §. 4.
    2.  In the Provincial Court the Plaintiff shall be
Non-suited, where the just Balance is under 1500 lb
Tobacco, or 6 l. 5 s. in Money.  Ibid.  §. 5.
    See Administrators, 18.  Arrests, 2.  Discount in
        Bar, 2.  Guardians, 26.  Hemp and Flax, 3.
        Jurors, 12.  Officers Fees, 1.  Records, 5, 8.
        Runaways, 10.  Suits at Law, 1.  Tobacco
        Debts, 3, 4.  Tobacco Run, 5.
NOTICE.  See Administration Bonds, 4,  Boundaries
    of Land, 6-8.  Delegates, 4, 8.  Demand of Debts,
    per Tot.  Fornication, 3, 4.  Musters, 2.  Runaways,
    6.  Small Debts, 3.

OATHS to the GOVERNMENT.  See Attorneys,
    3.  Constables, 3.  Delegates, 9, 10, 11,
    13.  Inspectors, 12.  Irish Servants, 4.  Protestant
    Interest, per Tot.  Quakers, 1. Schools, 17.  Surveyors,
    1.  Vestry, 4, 5, 6, 12, 26.
OATH of OFFICE.  See Constables, 3.  Inspectors,
    12.  Judge or Justice, 1.  Schools, 4, 17.  Surveyors,
    1.  Tobacco Run, 7.  Vestry, 4, 12, 21.