4-86 J A M A I C A. 



• robbery ; burning of houfes, canes ; rebellions ; conrpi- 

 racies ; or other capital offences; the juftice is to ifllie his 

 warrant to apprehend the offenders, and for fummoning 

 the evidence before him. The evidence of one flave to 

 be admitted againfl another flave ; and if, upon exami- 

 nation, it appears, prima facie, that the offenders are guilty, 

 he is to commit them to prlfon, certify accordingly, and 

 xiiibciate himfelf with another juflice. Thefe two are then 

 to cite three freeholders, intimating the caufe, and ap- 

 pointing a certain day and place for the trial to be held ; 

 and if, upon full and due hearing of the matter (the free- 

 holders being firft fworn, by the juftices, to judge up- 

 rightly, and according to the evidence), they deem the cul- 

 prits guilty, judgement is then forthwith to be given, of 

 death, tranfportation, or other punifliment, as they, in 

 their judgement, (hall think meet to infli»5l. 

 7. All /^//V crimes, trefpafles, and injuries, committed by a 

 flave, are to be heard and determined by any of his 

 raajeffy's juftices within the ifland. 

 .1711 8. Slaves, deftroying fifh by poifoning, ufing nets of mefhes 

 lefs than one inch and a quarter, or deftroying turtle eggs, 

 or killing pigeons, in the months of May, June, or 

 July, are punilheable with [X'] thirty-one lapei on the 

 bare back, on convidtion before a juftice of the peace. 

 9. To put a ffop to the wanton flaughter of old breeding 

 cattle and marked young ones, with other abufes of the 

 like fort, no flave to keep any horfes, mares, mules, 

 aflts, or cattle, on penalty of forfeiting the fame. 



10. No flave to hire himfelf out to work to another, without 

 confent of his owner, or employer. Penalty, upon con- 

 vidion before a magiftrate, whipping at the magiftrate's 

 difcretion, not t\ztt^\u^ thirty -one laJJ}es\k'\. 



1 1. Hawking about and felling goods [/] (except provifions, 

 fruits, and other enumerated articles) to be puniflied, 



■ \k'\ By the Jewifii laws, a wicked man, worthy to be beaten, was to be beaten before the judge, 

 •according to his fault : forty (Iripes might be inflicled ; and not to exceed. Deut. xxv, 3, In 

 -Another place, we are told, the punifliinent wm forty ftripes,_/aw one. Numb. xxv. 



[(] This reilraint is conftrued to extend only to beef, veal, mutton, and falt-fi(h ; and to ma- 

 Kufaftures,«;xcept baflcets, ropes of bark, earthen pots, and fuch like. 



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