ST. HELENA 39 



CATTLE TOLLED. 



8thly. 



You desire the toll of Cattle may be taken off, for that it 

 creates you a great deal of trouble. It is necessary that wee 

 should know how you sell your cattle to one another, because 

 of our Common, that it may both prejudice you and us too by 

 not knowing it. 



CATTLE, 

 athly. 



You desire that the trouble you are put to when you kill any 

 cattle in carrying the hides, homes and eares to persons ap- 

 pointed may be redrest. Wee design to make this trouble 

 easier to you; a man kills a beast, and sends for his next 

 neighbour, he being a reputed man, and warranted by the 

 Governor to have armes in his house ; he has shewn him the 

 mark of his beast that he has killed — that shall be a testimony 

 sufficient without going any further. Now the usefulness of 

 it — A man loses a beast and gets a warrant to search suspected 

 houses, in which houses if they find any beefe, if he cannot 

 bring his testimony that he killed it at such a time, by such 

 substantial men as aforesaid, or where he had the same, such 

 person ought to be convicted. And we believe if it went as 

 far as hoggs, goats, and sheep, it would be much to your benefit 

 for (if we are rightly informed) several suspected persons eat 

 more flesh than we think in reason and conscience they are 

 able to do if they come by it honestly. 

 " Sattisfied." 



And ordered that a new statute be penned accordingly, and 

 sent home by this shipping to the Honourable Lords Pro- 

 prietors for their concurrence, and that it takes force from 

 the publication. 



LANDS, 

 iothly. 



You desire you may not be obliged to fence in your lands 

 at all, it being a new thing you never heard of before. 



This law has bin made above twenty-seven years ago, and 

 no doubt but it hath bin published, for it is what you hold 

 your lands by. And we must say by this law, that what land 

 is not fenced in, is, by course, the Lords Proprietors* ; we have 

 no other way to know which is your land and which is theirs. 



However because you say you have bin so long kept in the 

 dark by not knowing anything of it, we shall for this time 

 neglect our duty of making seizures, and will intercede with 

 the Lords Proprietors that the time appointed for enclosing 

 may begin anew from the 25 th March last. In the meantime 

 wee friendly advise you to enclose as fast as you can, lest wee 

 should be checkt for this our neglect of duty, and receive orders 

 from them to make seizures. 



