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15. [/>] A flave, harbouring, concealing, or entertaining, a 

 runaway (lave, knowing him to be fiich, upon due con- 

 vidion and proof before two juftices and three free- 

 liolders, to fuffer death, or be otherwife puniOied at the 

 difcretion of the court ; provided tliat the profecution be 

 commenced within one month next after the difcovery 

 of fuch offence. 



16. \(i\ Slaves, hunting cattle, horfcs, mares, &c. with 

 lances, guns, cutlafles, or other inftruments of death, 

 nnlefs in company with their mafter, occ. or other 

 white perlbn by him or them deputed, on conviction 

 before two juftices and three freeholders, to be adjudged 

 guilty of felony, andbe tranfported. 



37-. No Have to carry fire-arms about the ifland without a 

 ticket from his owner or employer, under penalty of 

 fuch corporal punifhment (not extending to life or limb) 

 as two juftices fhall think meet to inflidt. 



18. [r] A perfon killing a flave in the fact of ftealing, or 

 running away, or found in the night out of his owner's 

 or employer's eftate, or on the road, and refufing to 

 fubmit, fuch perfon not liable to adion or damage for 

 the fame. 



tliey ave to ilo, and what they are not to do, and are admoniflied of the ceitahi punilhment they 

 will hiciir by doing fo and fo; thefe unlettered favages might as uell be condemned on the laws 

 ot Japan or Crim-Tartary. I Ihould, however, have excepted this |)articular aft, which the aijloi 

 of every parifh is dircil^ed to take the moll effeiftual methods tor making public, 



[/] So, Exod. xxi. 16, " He that llealeth a man, and felleth him, or if he be found in his hand, 

 "•he fliall furely be put to death." This, I prefume, extended as well to fteahng another Jew's 

 flave, as ftealing a fellow-Jew, in order to fell him for a na\e to a Gentile nation. By ver. 8, it ap- 

 pears, that a Jew might fell his own daughter tor a flave, except to a Gentile or ftrange nation; 

 Deut. xxiii, 15. " Thou (halt not deliver unto his raafter tlte fervant which is efcaped from his 

 " mailer unto thee." " Hefliall dwell with thee." This mull: be underftood of a flave belonging 

 to a ftranger, or Gentile, and not to a brother Jew ; for, otherwife, it would be repugnant to the 

 lenfe of the preceding ftatute. 



[ 17] By aft 14 George II. cap, 6, ftealing of fteep and cattle is made felony without benefit 

 of clergy. And 15 George II. cap. 34, explaining the former aft, declares fl-.eep and cattle to 

 extend to any bull, cow, ox, fteer, bullock, heifer, calf, and lamb. So horfe-ftealers are excluded 

 from clergy. 



[r] So, Exod. xxii. 2, 3, " If a thief be found breaking-up" in the night, " and be fmitten that 

 •' he die, there fhall no blood be flied for him," But, if in the day-time, fuch killing is murder. 

 The penalty on the thief, in this cafe, is reftitution of the things ftolen, or the value; or, having 

 isot wherewithal to pay the value, then to be fold for a flave. 



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