930 APPENDIX to Vol. III. 



XXXVIII. A fugitive flave, that (hall continue out for a month, 

 computing from the day of his being publickly advertifed by his 

 mafter, (hall have both his ears cut off, and fliall be branded on one 

 of his {houlders with a fleur-de-hs. In cafe of his repetition of the 

 fame offence, computing in Hke manner from the day of his being 

 publickly advertifed, he fhall be ham-ftrung, and be branded on 

 the other flioulder. But, for the third offence, he Ihall be punifhed 

 with death [/]. 



XXXIX. Freed men, convifted of harbouring or concealing fu- 

 gitive flaves in their houfes, (hall be condemned in a body to pay 

 to the mafter of fuch Oaves a fine of three hundred pounds weight of 

 fugar *^r diem for every day of their harbouring fuch flaves. 



XL. A flave, who (hall be puniflied capitally upon the accufa- 

 tion of his mafter (provided the mafter be not an accomplice in the 

 crime for which fuch flave (hall have been condemned), (Iiall be 

 valued, before his execution, by two principal inhabitants of the 

 ifland, appointed to this office by the judge; and the price, fet 

 upon him, (hall be paid to the mafter, for fatisfadion of whom, 

 a tax (hall be laid, by the intendant, equal to the amount of the 

 appraifement, proportionably rated per head on every Negroe 

 paying taxes ; and, to fave expences, the fame (hall be levied by 

 the farmer of our royal Weftern domain. 



XLI. We forbid the judges, our attornies, and their regifters, 

 to take any fees in criminal profecutions carried on againft flaves, 

 on pain of being puni(hed for extortion. 



XLIL Mafiers may, as often as they think their flaves de- 

 ferving of puniflimeut, caufe them to be put in irons, or chaflifed 

 \vith rods, or the whip; but they are not, in any cafe, to put them 

 to the torture, nor putiKh them by mutilation of limb or mem- 

 ber [w"], on pain of forfeiting fuch (laves,, and of being themfelves 

 proceeded agaijift in an extraordinary manner. 



XLIII. We 



•^^/] C<»inp!ire tHis xl'ith our J.imaica.law againft nuirnwaj^s, and apglaud the Uipcrior humanity 

 ^>fth<?'Fr<inch,;in ihie infuiiice i»r leaft. , , 



[/.■j] EiaiJton fays, that, in the days of villeinnge, ihell'ves and' liinbs of flaVies wers finder the 

 yjrotci'tiOn Ot the king; fo that, if a lord killed his fliivc, he wotiki not be Icfs piuiiflicd, than if 

 he killed any oihsr iitrfon ; but it was ulu.illy by line. The penalty here inflicted, of iorltiting 

 the flave,' i J pett<?ifyy agreeable to jullice. So, by a law of the Greeks, a flave, too roughly .treated 

 by his mafler, might infiil on being fold to I'uotha. In the latter times, theiC was a ikw'of the 



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