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such slave shall have a ticket from his master, owner, employer, or 
overseer, expressing particularly the time of such slave’s setting out, 
and where he or she is going, and the time limited for his or her re¬ 
turn, under a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every slave so 
offending, to be recovered from the master, owner, employer, or over¬ 
seer, in a summary manner, before any one justice of the peace, by 
warrant of distress, complaint being made to him upon oath, unless 
the master, owner, employer, or overseer, of such slave shall prove, 
upon oath, before any justice of the peace of the parish or precinct 
where such master, owner, employer, or overseer, may or shall live 
or happen to be, that he did give the said slave such ticket as aforesaid, 
•or that such slave went away without his consent; and if such justice 
shall refuse or neglect his duty, either in causing the penalty to be 
forthwith levied, on complaint being made to him as aforesaid, on the 
owner, overseer, or any other person, who shall suffer a slave, being 
under his or their direction, to go without a ticket as aforesaid, eve¬ 
ry justice so offending shall forfeit the sum of five pounds; any law, 
custom, or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding, 
( Slaves allowed holy days.) 
XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
for the future, all slaves in this island shall be allowed the usual num¬ 
ber of holydays that were allowed at the usual seasons of Christmas., 
Easter, and Whitsuntide : Provided, That, at every such respective 
season, no two holydays shall be allowed to follow or succeed imme¬ 
diately one after the other, except at Christmas, when they shall he 
allowed Christmas-day, and also the day immediately succeeding: 
any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding : And if 
any master, owner, guardian, or attorney, of any plantation or set¬ 
tlement, or the overseer of such plantation or settlement, shall pre¬ 
sume, at the seasons aforesaid, to allow any holydays to any slave be¬ 
longing to any such plantation or settlement, other than as directed by 
this act to be given, every person so offending, shall forfeit the sum of 
five pounds. 
(Slaves allowed one day in every fortnight.) 
XIX. And whereas it hath been usual and customary with tbe 
planters in this island, to allow their slaves one day in every fortnight 
