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to pay off their paflage from Europe, with- 

 out the confent of their mailers ; if he 

 a6ls without their confent, or in oppo- 

 sition to it, he muft pay a penalty of fifty 

 pounds, Penfykania currency, though he 

 has the licence, and the certificate of the 

 two men who are to anfwer for any objec- 

 tion. But parents or matters give them- 

 felves no concern about thefe men, but 

 take hold of the clergyman, who is at li- 

 berty to profecute thofe who gave him the 

 certificate, and to get his damages repaid. 

 With the confent of the parents and matters 

 he may marry people without danger to 

 himfelf. No clergyman is allowed to mar- 

 ry a negro with one of European extrac- 

 tion, or he muft pay a penalty of one 

 hundred pounds, according to the laws of 

 Penfyhania. 



There is a very peculiar diverting cuf- 

 tom here, in regard to marrying. When a 

 man dies, and leaves his widow in great po- 

 verty, or fo that me cannot pay all the debts 

 with what little (he has left, and that, not- 

 withttanding all that, there is a perfon who 

 will marry her, (he mutt be married in no 

 other habit than her fhift. By that means, 

 (he leaves to the creditors of her deceafed 

 hufband her cloaths, and every thing which 

 they find in the houfe. But me is not 



obliged 



