FOR the better discovery of what persons borne in this country are and ought to be accounted tythables, and the ages of the younger better known, Be it enacted by the governor, counsell and burgesses of this grand assembly and by the authority thereof that all persons who are appointed by the county courts to take the lyst of tythables, in each county shall take an account of all negro, molatto, and Indian children, within their severall precincts, and the masters and owners of such children are to make appeare upon oath or evidence the ages of them. And that all negro, and molatto children, and slaves that shalbe borne in the country, shall by their respective masters or owners within twelve months after their birth be registred in the parish register with their exact ages, and in default thereof, the said master or owner shall pay levy for them that yeare, and soe yearley till such register be made; And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all negro women borne in this country shall be accompted tythable at sixteene yeares of age.