Office the full space of 3 months, and if none in that
time shall underwrite the name set up, the Governor,
Keeper of the Great Seal, or Secretary of the Province,
may sign a Pass to such person to depart, for which shall
be paid 2 s. 6 d. Sterling.
    II.  If any person upon sudden occasion is necessitated
to depart, not having set up his name at the Secretary's
Office as aforesaid, he giving good sufficient
security to the Governor, Keeper of the Great Seal or
Secretary, to discharge and pay all Debts and Accounts
due from him to any Inhabitant, may have a Pass.
    III.  Every Master of a Ship or other Person whatsoever,
that shall transport or convey out of this Province by
Land or Water, any Freeman, being indebted to any Inhabitant
thereof, without such Pass as aforesaid, shall be
lyable to satisfy all such Debts or Damages, except the
same be otherwise satisfied, or the Transporter or Conveyor
of such Person procure him to return again in one
month after.
    IV.  And every such Person who shall transport or
convey away any Servant by Condition, Wages or Custom
of the Country, shall be lyable to satisfy the Master or
Owner of such Servant all such damages for want of such
Servant, as the Court where such Cause shall be tryed
shall think fit.
    V.  No Person or Persons inhabiting at the head of the
Bay or elsewhere in this Province, shall cause to be transported
or conveyed any Person over Susquehanah River,
or any other part of the Bay above the North side of Sassafrass
River, not having Passes procured as aforesaid, or
a Certificate under the hands of 2 Justices of the Peace,
and the County Seal affixed, certifying the freedom of
such persons, on penalty of answering all such damages
as may happen to Creditors, Masters or Owners of Servants.

                    Extortion.

    I.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 50.  For preventing Extortions
in Sheriffs and Deputy Commissaries, enacted that
no Sheriff, &c. shall take any Bond or Writing Obligatory,
without endorsing the Account on the back of the
said Bond or Writing for which the same was passed,