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And make known that what Officer of Officers Seaman or Seamen

as aforesd are (after publication hereof) found travelling without

passes as aforesd Shall be lyable to be taken up and Seized as Run

awayes & pay to the parties So takeing them up, according to the

directions of the Law for Runaway Servants &a. And ffor as much

as Severall Orders and Ordinances of Assembly have been heretofore

issued to the Vestryes of the respective Parishes within this Province

touching the Collection and disposal of the fourty pound per poll

(viz) that where the Same was left uncollected last year Should be

Collected this year, and that in Parishes where Churches are built

and no Minister inducted the Same Should be Sold for Bills of

Exch^ca or ready goods. This is to remind an order all Such -

Vestryes So concernd that they duely comply with and observe y^e

aforesd Severall Orders & Ordinances, being now well assured y^t

Tobacco is and will be a good Comodity this year. And I doe hereby

Order & Comand that the sd several Vestryes, doe likewise take

Care and Order that a Certain Act of Assembly of this Province made

in May last Entituled and Act restraining the frequent Assemblyng

of Negroes within this Province be Published and Read in their

Severall & respective Parish Churches four times every year pursuant

to the directions of the Said Act. And that all Negroes wandering

or going abroad (otherwise then as in the sd Act is directed) be taken

up and punished accordingly. And to the end due notice hereof

may be given, I doe further Comand that the Severall Sheriffs of the

Province proclaime this in all Churches, Chappels, and other Publick

meetings within their respective Counties, to which all Persons –

Concernd are to yield, due & ready obedience, as they and every of them

will answer the contrary at their perill. Given at the Port of Anna=

=polis, under the broad Seal of the Province this 25^th day of Jan^ry

in the 7^th year of his Maties Reign &a Annoq Dom 1695 //

                    God Save the King

True Coppy Examined by the          ffra Nicholson

Original passed y^e broad Seal }

       Hen. Denton Cl Concil

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By his Exc^ncy the Govern^r &ca January the 25^th . 1695

Ordered that all Hue & Cryes (for the future) issued or Sent after Runaways

& others be directed to be Sent forward to the Port of Annapolis, And that

a Speedy acco^t be likewise from all parts Sent thither, where any Run

away Servants or Negroes are taken up & kept in Custody, and y^e Masters

of Such Servants or Negroes undiscovered And that the sheriffs of y^e Province

publish this order in all places of publick meeting w^thin their respective

Counties. Signed p^r Order // Hen Denton Clr Concil