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( [Provost-marshal to deliver runaways to workhouse-keeper .) 
LX. And whereas great advantages have arisen to the community 
from the establishment of workhouses in the respective parishes in this 
island, for the reception of runaway and other slaves ; And whereas 
there now are many such slaves in the possession of the provost-mar¬ 
shal, or his lawful deputies, who might be employed in the work- 
houses in this island to great advantage; Be it therefore enacted by 
the authority aforesaid, That, from and after the passing of this act, it 
shall and may be lawful for the governors and guardians of the respec¬ 
tive workhouses in this island, if to them it shall seem meet, to demand 
and receive from the provost-marshal, or his lawful deputies, all or 
any of the runaway negroes or other slaves in his or their possession, 
or that may hereafter come into his or their custody or possession, 
upon the said governors and guardians paying unto the provost-mar¬ 
shal, or his lawful deputies, the full amount of the fees and other con¬ 
tingent charges attending the said runaway slaves during the time of 
their being committed to gaol, agreeably to this or any former act ; 
and the provost-marshal and his lawful deputies shall comply with 
such requisitions, under the penalty of fifty pounds, 
(Runaways to be committed to workhouse.) 
LXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
no runaway slave shall, on any account, be committed to gaol by any 
magistrate of a parish where there is any workhouse established, but 
to such workhouse only. 
(Horses, &c. belonging to slaves to be taken up and sold.) 
LXII. And whereas the permitting and suffering negro and other 
slaves to keep horses, mares, mules, or geldings, is attended with 
many and great mischiefs to the island in general ; In order, there¬ 
fore, to remedy the same, Be it further enacted by the authority afore¬ 
said, That, from and after the passing of this act, the master, owner, 
proprietor, attorney, guardian, executor, administrator, or other per¬ 
son, in possession of any plantation or pen in this island, having on 
any such plantation or pen any horse, mare, mule, or gelding, the 
reputed property of any slave or slaves, knowing the same to be such, 
shall cause them to be taken up, and shall produce them at the most 
public place in the parish where taken up, at such time as the justi- 
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