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Assembly Proceedings, October 1654. 349
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approvemt shall be Censured as the Court before whom such
Accessaryes shall be Impleaded and convicted according to the
Nature of the offence by the Discretion of the Court. And
any hired Servant so Departing from Service as afores? shall
double the time of his or her unlawfull Departure & absence
to his or her sd master or Dame, over & above the Damages
and Costs which shall be sustained by such unlawfull Departure
to be adjudged by the Court, whereof Iust proofe shall be
made, And any one which shall Transport any hired or Cove-
nant Servant out of the Province shall pay Double Cost &
Damage to the party Grieved for such Servants absence out of
the Province, And Every hired Servant or Apprentice that shall
absent himself out of the Service of his or her master or Dame,
& During such absence shall be resident within this Province
shall double the time of his or her absence of Service to his or
her master or Dame, And Every Inhabitant within this Province
that shall knowingly harbour or Entertaine Such Servant or
Apprentice during such Absence to the prejudice of his or her
master or Dame, shall for so Doing be fined or Censured at
the Court before whom such case Depends shall think fitt, And
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L. O. R.
No. 3
Liber B
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Every person and persons that shall Transport or carry away or
cause to be Transported or carried away any freeman out of
this Province without a pass that is or shall be ingaged here
shall be Liable to Satisfie all such Debts Engagements and
Damages to the person or persons to whom the same shall be
due respectively in this Province unless the same be otherwise
Satisfied in convenient time or that in short time he cause or
procure such freeman to returne againe into this Province
whereby he may be Liable to Justice here.
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p. 433
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31 Delivering of Gunns to Indians
It is Enacted by the Authority of this present Assembly that
no Inhabitant of this Province shall Deliver any Gunn or Gunns
or Amunition or other kind of martiall Armes to any Indian
born of Indian Parentage for the killing of meat or any other
use upon paine of forfeiture of one thousand pounds of Tobacco
And Caske to publique use, And Loss of the parties Gunn to
him that shall make Seizure thereof or take the same from
such Indian or Informe or make proofe thereof
32 An Act Concerning planting Corn
It is Enacted by this present Assembly that Every Taxable
person planting Tobacco shall plant and tend two acres of
Corne, upon forfeiture of Every two acres not so planted and
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