teen days shall be Adjudged part of the service of such servant
which shall be afterwards brought into Maryland and there sold
any Law Usage or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And be itt also Enacted by the Authority Advice and Con-
sent afd that Every Indenture made by Any Servant dureing
the time of his service by former Indenture or Judgmt of the
County Court According to the tenor of this Act shall be Void
and not any ways oblidge any Servant for Longer time then
by his first Indenture or Judgment of the Court shall be Lim-
itted and Appointed.
And be itt further Enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent afd that for all such runaway Servants or Slaves that
shall be Apprehended and taken up in the province of Pen-
silvania or Colony of Virginia and from thence brought into
this Province And Delivered unto a Magistrate of the County
into which they shall be brought the person for soe doing shall
have paid and Allowed him by the Master or owner of such
Runaway four hundred pounds of Tobo and Cask or forty shil-
lings in Mony upon his produceing a Certificate from the Jus-
tice or Sher. of the Delivery of such Runaway Except Servants
or Runaways brought from Accomack into Somerset! County
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