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court, where, on conviction, they may be punished by whipping —

1715, ch. 44, sec. 13, .........

27

Power of the courts to determine on complaints against masters — 1715,

ch. 44, see. 30, p. 31 ; 1796, ch. 67, sec. 21, .

341

No negroes or other slaves shall carry guns, &c. from their masters'

land without leave — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 32,* .....

31

Any slave so doing, may be carried before a justice of the peace and

whipped, and the gun, SLC. shall be forfeited to the person seizing

the same, and carrying the offender before a justice of the peace —

1715, ch. 44, sec. 32, .........

31

Slaves charged with pilfering or stealing, or any other crime or misde-

meanor whereof the county court might have cognizance, may be

brought before a single magistrate, and punished by whipping —

1717, ch. 13, sec. 6, .........

47

Constables shall repair once a month to suspected places, and whip

such slaves as they find there without a license in writing, unless

belonging to the owner of the place — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 2, .

63

They may require as many persons as may be necessary to go with

them, who, on refusing, shall forfeit 100 lbs. of tobacco — 1723, ch.

15, sec. 3, ...........

63

The same penalty on free white persons present who refuse to assist —

1723, ch. 15, sec. 3, .........

63

Slaves belonging to the owner of the place, who refuse to assist the

constable, shall be whipped — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 3, ...

63

Such constables shall be allowed five hundred pounds of tobacco

yearly — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 4, .......

63

If a slave shall strike any white person he shall be punished by whip-

ping — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 4,t .......

64

The owner of a plantation may whip any slaves, (not sent by their

owners on lawful occasions,) who, on being warned, shall refuse or

delay to depart — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 5, . . .

64

Persons encouraging slaves to meet in companies on their plantations,

(unless on lawful occasions,) shall forfeit 1000 lbs. of tobacco —

1723, ch. 15, sec. 5, .........

64

Owners of slaves suffering them to keep horses or mares, or to raise

cattle or hogs as their own, shall forfeit 500 lbs. of tobacco, and

such horses, &c. shall also be forfeited — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 6,

64

Runaway out-lying slaves refusing to surrender themselves, or resisting

persons legally empowered to take them up, may be shot, killed or

destroyed, by such persons — 1723, ch. 15, sec. 7, ...

65

Officers or other persons endeavouring to apprehend slaves, who may

be slain for refusing to surrender, or for unlawfully resisting, shall

be indemnified for such killing— 1751, ch. 14, sec. 9, .

93

But such persons shall undergo a legal trial, and if it appears that such

killing was in pursuance of the act of 1723, ch. 15, they shall be

acquitted, and the costs of prosecution shall be paid by the public

—1753, ch. 26, .........

100

*See 1831, 323. + See 1821, ch. 240.