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sent from their owner, employer, or manager’s service, ten days, shall 
be entitled to the reward of ten shillings, although the slave or slaves 
should not be eight miles distant from their employer’s habitation : 
Provided nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained, shall be 
construed to extend to an allowance of the sard sum of ten shillings 
and mile-money, in addition to the sum allowed to maroon negroes 
for apprehending runaways: And provided also. That it i 3 not 
hereby intended to deprive the said maroons of their legal and esta¬ 
blished reward of forty shillings for each negro. 
(How runaways are to he disposd of.) 
XXXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that 
the person or persons so apprehending such slave or slaves, shall 
convey him, her, or them, to their respective owner, employer, or 
manager, or to the workhouse of such parish, if any workhouse is 
established there 5 and in case of there being no workhouse to the next 
goal, in case the owner, employer, or manager, of such slave or 
slaves shall refuse to pay the said sura of ten shillings, and mile-mo- 
.ney as aforesaid, or take the oath as to the time of absence ; in which 
■case, the goal or workhouse-keeper is hereby required and ordered to 
receive such slave or slaves into his or their custody, and to pay the 
party delivering such slave or slaves the said sum of ten shillings, and 
mile-money as aforesaid, and no more, for each slave so delivered, 
under the penalty of five pounds; Provided nevertheless. That if such 
slave or slaves is or are brought to any gaol or workhouse by any white 
person, free negro, free mulatto, or Indian, no gaoler or workhouse- 
keeper shall pay such sum before such person shall have taken an oath, 
(which oath such gaoler or workhouse-keeper is hereby required, un¬ 
der the penalty of five pounds, to file in his office and produce, vshen- 
ever thereunto required by the owner or possessor of such slave or 
slaves), that the slave or slaves so apprehended was or were at the re¬ 
puted distance of eight miles from the house, plantation, or settle¬ 
ment, to which such slave or slaves do belong (except as before is ex¬ 
cepted), and that such slave or slaves had no ticket or other permit in 
writing from his master, mistress, overseer, employer, or manager, 
at the time such slave or slaves was or were apprehended, for him, her, 
or them, to pass unmolested, and that the said slave or slaves had 
been carried first to the owner, employer, or manager, of such slave 
