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petting the " Public Service," without any resistance or 

 opposition : and in case of a contrary behaviour on their 

 part, they shall, on the complaint of the officers, incur 

 a penalty of 300 guilders ; the court reserving to itself 

 the increasing of such fine or the inflicting of another 

 punishment on the offenders as circumstances may 

 require. 



2. — In case of an expedition either for pursuing run- 

 away negroes or other purposes required by the public 

 service, each estate shall furnish such a number of whites 

 and slaves as may be demanded of it ; and it is also 

 ordered on such occasions, that the burgher captains or 

 the officers who, on account of the former's being 

 absent or otherwise prevented, may command in the 

 district;, shall apply to the Governor or the nearest 

 member of the Court of Government, in order to con- 

 cert the mode of carrying such expedition into effect in 

 the most equal manner with respect to the furnishing of 

 whites and slaves ; and that a relative equality on this 

 head may the better be observed, every owner, attorney, 

 or manager of any estate or estates, shall be obliged to 

 give in every year, in the month of January, to the 

 burgher captain of his district, a return of all the work- 

 ing or efficient men-slaves on such estate or estates. 

 Those who shall omit giving in such a return, to incur 

 for the first time, a fine of fifty guilders, for the second 

 of their so omitting, a fine of 100 guilders, and for the 

 third time, such corre6tion as the court, according to the 

 exigency of the case, shall judge proper. 



3. — No persons shall be exempt from such requisition, 

 but be obliged to render the assistance demanded of 

 them ; and if any person shall neglect in case of any 



