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matter, and fome other things : he is like- 

 wife obliged to feed and clothe them 

 during the years of their fervitude. Many 

 of the Germans who come hither, bring 

 money enough with them to pay their paf- 

 fage, but rather fuffer themfelves to be fold, 

 with a view that during their fervitude they 

 may get fome knowledge of the language 

 and quality of the country, and the like, 

 that they may the better be able to confider 

 what they fhall do when they have got their 

 liberty. Such fervants are taken preferable 

 to all others, becaufe they are not fo dear; 

 for to buy a Negroe or black (lave, requires 

 too much money at once \ and men or 

 maids who get yearly wages, are likewife 

 too dear ; but this kind of fervants may be 

 got for half the money, and even forlefs; 

 for they commonly pay fourteen pounds, 

 Penfyhania currency, for a perfon who is 

 to ferve four years, and fo on in proportion. 

 Their wages therefore are not above three 

 pounds Penfyhania currency per ann. This 

 kind of fervants, the Eng/i/h call fervings. 

 When a perfon has bought fuch a fervant 

 for a certain number of years, and has an 

 intention to fell him again, he is at liberty 

 to do fo ; but he is obliged, at the expira- 

 tion of the term of the fervitude to provide 

 the ufual fuit of deaths for the fervant, un- 



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