PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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The condition of such as may be born of a negro or mulatto slave

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during their limited servitude, ascertained — 1809, ch. 171, .

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See Issue.

No negro or mulatto slave, or free negro, shall be admitted as evidence

in any cause wherein any Christian white person is concerned —

1717, ch. 13, sec. 2, .........

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In all criminal prosecutions against any negro or mulatto slave, or

against any mulatto descended from a white woman, or any negro

or mulatto free or freed, the testimony of any negro or mulatto

slave, or of any mulatto descended from a white woman, or of any

negro or mulatto free or freed, may be received in evidence for or

against them— 1808, ch. 81, .......

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Penalty on persons transporting or secretly carrying away any slave —

1715, ch. 19, sec. 3, .........

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Penalty on joining in marriage & negro or mulatto slave with a white

person — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 24, .......

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A free negro or mulatto intermarrying with a white person shall be-

come a slave for life, except a mulatto born of a white woman, who

shall become a servant for seven years — 1717, ch. 13, sec. 4,

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To be disposed of by the county courts for the use of the county

schools — 1717, ch. 13, sec. 5, . . . ...

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A white woman suffering herself to be got with child by a negro or

other slave, or free negro, shall become a servant for seven years

—1715, ch. 44, sec. 25, ........

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If a servant, she shall finish her servitude, together with satisfaction for

damages, and shall again become a servant for seven years — 1715,

ch. 44, sec. 25, ... .......

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Any free negro begetting such child shall become a servant for seven

years— 1715, ch. 44, sec. 26,

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White men begetting any negro woman with child, (whether free or

servants,) shall undergo the same penalties as white women — 1715,

ch. 44, sec. 27, ..........

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The times of servitude to be disposed of by the county court for the

use of the county — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 27, .

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Free mulatto women having bastard children, and free negro women

having bastard children, by white men, are subject to the same

penalties as white women for having mulatto bastards — 1728, ch.

4, sec. 2, 3, ..........

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Penalties on persons harbouring or entertaining slaves unlawfully ab-

senting themselves — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 5, p. 26 ; 1748, ch. 19, sec.

2, 3,4, p. 88; 1818, ch. 157, .......

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No person shall deal with a slave without leave from the master, &c.

under the penalty of 2000 lbs. tobacco, one-half to the state and

the other to the owner — 1715, ch. 44, sec. 11, .

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If the goods so dealt for exceed 1000 Ibs. of tobacco in value, the

owner shall have his action at law against the party — 1715, ch. 44,

sec. 12, ...........

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Persons so offending, and not being able to satisfy the same, shall be

bound over by some justice to appear at the next general or county