An act preventing the clandestine transportation of persons in debt, servants, or slaves out of this colony

October 1705-CHAP. XII

An act to prevent the clandestine transportation or carrying of persons in debt, servants, and slaves, out of this colony.

II. And be it also enacted, by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That after publication of this act, no master of a ship, sloop, boat or other vesse, shall transport or carry any servant whatsoever, or any negro, mulatto, Indian, or othe rslave, out of this colony and dominion, without a licence, or pass as aforesaid, or the consent, leave, or permission of the person or persons to whom such servant or slave doth of right belong, upon penalty of forfeiting and paying, in current money, the sum of fifty pounds for every servant, and the sum of one hundred pounds for every slave transported or carried hence, contrary to this act; one moiety to our sovereign lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, for and towards the better support of this government, and the contingent charges thereof; and the other moiety to the party grieved: To be recovered, with costs, in any court of record within this colony and dominion, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law, shall be allowed.