BOOK III. CHAP. V. 489 



rp. A flave, maUc'wuJly giving poifon to any free peribn, or 

 flave, and being convided thereof before two juftices 

 and three freeholders, to be adjudged guilty of murder, 

 and to fiiffer death. 



20. A flave, felling in ;iny public place, or market, any other 

 goods than fuch as properly belong to his owner, or for 

 his owner's ufe, and that arc not exprefled in a ticket, 

 upon complaint and convi£lion before a juflice, to be 

 whipped by order of fuch juilice. See N° 1 1, 

 1-60 21. [j] 03t7rf/;-wf«, pretended conjurors, or priefts, upon con- 

 vidion before two juftices and three freeholders of their 

 pradiling as fuch, to fuffer death, or tranfportation, at 

 the difcretion of the court. 



22. Slaves, convided before two juftices and three free- 

 holders of having in their cuftody fire-arms, gun-powder, 

 bayonet, fword, or other military ofFenfive weapon (ex- 

 cept in company with, or under the diredion of, a white 

 perfon, or having a ticket, or licence, in writing, from 

 their owner, overfeer, or employer), to fuffer deathy or 

 other puniftiment, at the difcretion of the court. 



1768 23. Slaves, attempting to defert from the ifland in any fhip, 



boat, &c. and being convided before two juftices and 

 three freeholders, to fuffer death., or other punifhment, at 

 the difcretion of the court. 



1769 24. Slaves, taking ftones or ballaft from the Pallifadoes^impri* 



fonment, not exceeding three months. 

 2j. Slaves, found felling frefh-fifti in any part of Kingfton, 

 except at the fifh-market, within the market-hours of 

 eight in the morning and two in the afternoon, pu- 

 nilhable at the difcretion of any of the magiftrates in 

 that parifh ; and fuch fifh to be forfeited, and diftributed 

 to the poor. 



\_s] Many of thefe incendiaries, called marbuts, or marabouts, on the coaflof Guiney, are Bai- 

 ji'.Qicd from their own country for mal-praftices. 



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