28 LAWS OF MARYLAND—1715.
Offenders
may be
whipped. |
SEC. 13. And, in case such person or persons so offending
shall not be able to satisfy the same, then such person or per-
sons shall be bound over by some one justice of the peace, and
put in security, either to appear at the next provincial or county
court, where, upon conviction, by confession or sufficient wit-
ness, the offender shall be punished by whipping on the bare
back with thirty stripes.
SEC. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Are not deemed applicable to the present
condition of the state. All indentures for services, by foreigners, are now
purely conventional between the parties thereto, except so far as they are
restrained by 1817, ch. 226, relating to German and Swiss redemptioners.
SEC. 20. Supplanted by 1834, ch. 161—1833, ch. 111. |
Penalty on
masters for
not provid-
ing food,
&c. |
SEC. 21. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That if any master or mistress of any servant whatsoever, or
overseer by order or consent of any such master or mistress,
shall deny, and not provide sufficient meat, drink, lodging and
clothing, or shall unreasonably burthen them beyond their
strength with labour, or debar them of their necessary rest and
sleep, or excessively beat and abuse them, or shall give them
above ten lashes for anyone offence, the same being sufficiently
proved before the justices of the county courts, the said justices
have hereby full power and authority for the first and second
offence, to levy such fine upon such offender as to them shall
seem meet, not exceeding one thousand pounds of tobacco, to
the use of his majesty, his heirs and successors, for the support
of government, and for the third offence, to set such servant so
wronged at liberty, and free from servitude; but in case the
master or owner of any such servant shall think that he or they
deserves greater correction, then the said master or owner of
such servant or servants shall or may carry them before any
justice of the peace, who, hearing the complaint, shall order
such correction as he shall see fit, not exceeding thirty-nine
lashes for any one offence. |
Slaves, &c.
to be slaves
for life. |
SEC. 22. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That all negroes and other slaves already imported, or hereafter
to be imported into this province, and all children now born, or
hereafter to be born, of such negroes and slaves, shall be slaves
during their natural lives. |
No negroes
to be free,
&c. |
SBO. 83. And, forasmuch as many people have neglected to
baptize their negroes, or suffer them to be baptized, on a vain
apprehension that negroes, by receiving the sacrament of bap-
tism, are manumitted and set free; Be if hereby further
declared and enacted, by and with the authority, advice and
consent aforesaid, That no negro or negroes, by receiving the
holy sacrament of baptism, is thereby manumitted or set free,
nor hath any right or title to freedom or manumission, more
than he or they had before, any law, usage or custom to the
contrary notwithstanding. |
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