66 ST. HELENA 



And in case any slaves, male or female, shall presume to strike 

 any white person whatsoever with any weapon, they shall suffer 

 death, except those white persons who demean and debase them- 

 selves in conversing, corresponding and gaining with the blacks, as 

 if they were equals, which we judge shall have no more benefit of 

 those laws than blacks themselves. 



And in case any negro slave shall presume to give saucy or imper- 

 tinent language or answer to any white person (except those white 

 persons aforesaid) shall, upon complaint thereof to the master or 

 owners of the said slave, be severely whipt in the presence of the 

 party offended, to his satisfaction ; and if the said master or owner 

 of the said slave shall refuse or neglect to punish the said slave so 

 offending, then the party offended may complain to the Governor ; 

 and so cause the said slave to be apprehended and conveyed to the 

 Fort, and punished according to the nature of the offence. 



That no negro slave shall truck, barter or ex- 



Against one change anything, without the foreknowledge and 



black bartering consent of the owners of the said negroes, both 



with another, the sellers and buyers, deliverers and receivers of 



any commodity whatsoever to the value of one 



shilling, upon the penalty of twenty lashes or more, if it should 



exceed that value according to the judgment of the Governor and 



Council, severely to be inflicted on them at the Flagstaff, upon the 



complaint of any one aggrieved by such a clandestine way of one 



negro dealing with another. 



That no white person whatsoever shall truck, 

 Against any barter or exchange any commodity whatsoever 

 white person ' with any negro or negroes, to sell to them nor buy 

 touching or of them any sort of commodity, without the fore- 

 bartering with knowledge and consent of the owners of the said 

 blacks. negro or negroes upon the penalty of being ad- 



judged, accessory to felony, and so consequently 

 liable to a fourfold restitution to the owners of the said negro or 

 negroes, besides a fine to the Lords Proprietors ; nor no negro shall 

 alienate any commodity or thing whatsoever to any white person 

 whatsoever, without the leave and consent of the said negroes' 

 master or mistress before had, upon the penalty of severe correction 

 according to the judgment of the Governor and Council. 



That no negro whatsoever shall prescribe or 

 No blacks administer any physic or medicine whatsoever to 

 to prescribe any negro or negroes without the consent of his 

 physic to or their master or mistress of that negro unto 

 each other. whom he shall prescribe or administer any physic 

 or medicine upon the penalty of severe correction, 

 according to the judgment of the Governor and Council ; neither 

 shall any negro whatsoever take or receive any physic or medicine, 

 or follow the rules or prescriptions of any pretended black doctor 

 whatsoever, "without acquainting their master or mistress there- 

 with, upon the penalty of the like pain and punishment as the 

 black doctor who pretends to physic is liable to. 



