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or Misdemeanors, whereof the County Court might have Cog-
nizance, it shall and may be lawful for any one of the Justices
of the Provincial or County Courts, upon Complaint made
before him, to cause such Negro, Indian, or Mulatto Slave, so
offending, to be brought immediately before him, or any other
Justice of Peace for the County where such Offence is com-
mitted, who upon due Proof made against any such Negro,
or Mulatto Slave, of any of the Crimes as aforesaid, such
Justice is hereby authorized and impowered to award and
cause to be inflicted, according to the Nature of the Crime,
such Punishment by Whipping, as he shall think fit, not ex-
ceeding Forty Lashes.
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon.
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Bacon
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An Act for quieting Differences that may arise between the
Inhabitants of this Province, and the several Nations of
Indians, of what Places soever.
Whereas many Differences have and may hereafter arise
and grow between the English and Indians, which for want of
a speedy Way of determining the same, many great Charges
and Illconveniencies have and may happen thereupon, by the
said Controversies being brought from the remotest Parts of
this Province, to be heard and determined before the Governor
and Council, to the very great Trouble of the Persons con-
cerned, and the Public Charge: Which to prevent, and to give
a Speedy Redress in all such Matters ;
II. Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lord-
ship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of As-
sembly, and by the Authority of the same, That from and
after the End of this present Session of Assembly, any Justice
of the Provincial or County Courts within this Province, be,
and are hereby authorized and impowered, to hear and de-
termine all Manner of Controversies and Differences what-
soever, that shall or may hereafter happen or grow between
the English and Indians, in private and personal Contro-
versies, not exceeding the Value of Twenty Shillings Sterling.
III. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority afore-
said, That any of the Justices aforesaid, be, and are hereby
authorized and impowered, upon hearing and determining any
such Difference or Controversy as aforesaid, and Judgment
thereupon given, either Party refusing to perform the same,
then and in every such Case, the Justice so impowered as
aforesaid, shall by Way of Distress take into his Custody any
of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender, and out of the same
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