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or slaves (provided such owner, employer, or manager, shall be in 
the parish in which such slave or slaves shall be apprehended), and 
that the master, mistress, overseer, or manager, had refused to pay 
for the apprehending him, her, or them, according to the intent and 
meaning of this act. 
(Time of tickets limited.) 
XXXII. Ajid be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That 
no ticket shall be granted to any slave or slaves for any time exceed¬ 
ing one calendar month. 
( Account of births and deaths must be given in.) 
XXXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That on the twenty-eighth day of December in every year (the time 
of giving in as aforesaid), or within thirty days after, the owner, 
overseer, or manager of every plantation, pen, or settlement, shall 
give in on oath, an account of all the births and deaths of the slaves 
of such plantation, pen, or settlement, for the preceding year, under 
the penalty of fifty pounds, to be recovered from the owner of such 
plantation, pen or other settlement. 
(Overseer to pay if his neglect.) 
XXXIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 
That, if the not giving in upon oath such several accounts shall be 
owing to the neglect of the overseer or manager of such plantation, 
pen, or other settlement, it shall and may be lawful for the owner, 
proprietor, or possessor of such plantation, pen, or other settlement, 
to stop and detain the penalty he or she shall suffer by this law, out of 
the wages of such overseer or manager. 
(Surgeons to give in an account of slaves dying.) 
(Encouragement for increase of slaves.) 
XXXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
the doctor or surgeon of every- plantation, pen, or other settlement, 
shall on the twenty-eighth day of December, in every year (the time of 
giving in as aforesaid) or within thirty days after, give in an account, 
on oath, of the deaths of such slaves as have died in the preceding year, 
or during such time as such doctor or surgeon hath had the care of 
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