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1752

the testimony or Evidence of other Slaves Corroborated with such
pregnant circes as shall convince the Jury who shall trye the fact of
the guilt of such Slaves to give Judgm.^t according to the nature and
quality of the Offence

By next Sect." A Slave giving false Testimony against another
Slave shall have one Ear Cut off on the day of Conviction and
receive 39 Stripes on the naked back and the other Ear shall be
Cropped the next day with y^e like Number of Stripes.
By the 8.^th Sect." If a Slave shall/int. a &/be Guilty of Rambling
or going abroad in the Night The Justices of the County Court are
obliged upon the application of the Owner or of any other Person
injured by such Slave immediately to punish the Slave by Whipping
Cropping or Branding in the Cheek with the Letter R. or otherwise
not extending to Life or to render such Slave unfit for Labour
This Likewise is made a temporary Law for 3 years & to the end
of the next Session of Assembly.
3.^d As to the 3.^d Act — Which is an Act for Aiding the Title of
Purchasers of Lots in Princess Ann Town
It is to be Considered whether the Act is not Calculated to give
the Purchasers/this aid at the expence of the Lord Prop.^ry
The Objects of this Act are first 25 Acres of Land/Supposed to
have been heretofore the right of David Brown/Laid out into 30.
Lots & Erected into a Town called Princess Ann Town many of
which have been taken up & well Improved & others Secured tho
not built on — and 2^dly Some other Land called the Publick ground
on which the Court House &c. have been placed — And the Act
recites a doubt concerning the Title of the s.^d Lots/Viz.^t the 25.
Acres/which are Supposed to be Escheat to the Lord Prop.^ry
And Enacts That where any Person hath taken upon Purchased
or shall hereafter take upon Purchase any Lot or part of a Lot in
the s.^d Town & shall pay for the use of the Lord Prop.^ry 20.^S Ster-
ling for such Lot or in proportion for part of a Lot only to the
Clerk of the s.^d County Such Paym.^t Shall after Enrolm.^t of the
receipt to be paid for the same Invest the Owner of such Lot with
an Indefeazible Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple in such Lot So
taken up and Purchased.
And upon Paym.^t of the like 20.^S Sterling to the use of the Lord
Prop.^ry for the Publick ground The fee Simple thereof is in like
manner vested in the Justices of the County.
Now the only view of this Act is to obviate Doubts concerning
the Lord Prop.^rys right & to vest a fee Simple in Purchasers in
Opposition to that right And by this Act the Lands are vested in the
Purchasers so as never to revert to the Lord Prop.^ry
Nor are there any Quit Rents reserved to the Lord.