An Acte lymiting Servants
tymes
Whereas certaine differences too frequently arise betweene
Masters and Servants in this Province in and aboute the tyme
of services and Customes often pleaded on both sides in this
minority of seateing for prvencon of the like it is Enacted
And be it Enacted by the Lord Proprietary by and wth the
Consent of the upper and lower howse of this prsent Generall
Assembly that every Servant transported into this Province
after the end of this Assembly being of the full age of twenty
and two yeares or upwards not haueing Indenture or other
sufficient Testimony for the tearme or tyme of his or her come-
ing in such Servant shall serue him or her that transported
and payd the Passage of the said Servant or their Assigns
from and after their first Arrivall into this Province the full
tyme of foure yeares if between the age of Eighteene and
twenty two yeares such servt shall serue flue yeares, if betwixt
the age of fifteene and Eighteene such Servant shall serue six
yeares And any Servant of what age soeuer vnder fifteene yeares
and Comeing in as aforesaid shall serue till he or she arriue to
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