and having a reasonable sum of Money or Tobacco
tender'd for his charges, shall not appear, having
no reasonable let or impediment, such party making
default, shall forfeit for every such Offence 10 l.
Sterl. and yield to the Party grieved such further Recompence
as the Court out of which the Process came
shall award.  The said several sums to be recovered by
the Party grieved by Action, of Debt, &c. in any Court
of Record, wherein do Essoin, &c.

                    Pyrates.

    I.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 102.  It shall be Felony
for any Person inhabiting or belonging to this Province,
to commit an Act of Hostility, by Commission from
any Foreign Prince, State or Potentate, against any other
Foreign Prince, State or Potentate in Amity with
his Majesty, and every such Offender being thereof legally
convicted in the Provincial Court, shall suffer
Death without Benefit of the Clergy.  This Act not to
extend to such as have been in Foreign Service, and left
the same before the 10th of May last, and given security
for their future good Behaviour.
    II.  All Treasons, Felonies, Pyracies, Robberies, Murthers
or Confederacies committed at Sea, or in any River,
Haven, Creek or Bay, shall be inquired of, tryed
or adjudged in this Province, in such like form as if
the Offence had been committed on the Land.  And to
that end, Commissions shall issue under the Great Seal
of this Province, directed to the Judge of the Admiralty,
and such other Persons as shall be brought meet, which
said Commissioners shall have Power to proceed as the
Commissioners appointed by virtue of the Stat. 28. H. 8. ch.
15. are empowered to do within the Kingdom of England.
    III.  Every Person who shall knowingly Entertain,
Conceal, Trade or Correspond with any Person that shall
be adjudged to be a Privateer or Pyrate, or other Offender
within this Act, and shall not endeavour to apprehend
such Offender, shall be lyable to be prosecuted
as Accessary and Confederate.
    IV.  All Commission Officers in their several Precincts
are impower'd and requir'd upon notice given, to raise
and levy such number of armed Men, as shall be thought

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