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whose presence may be requisite, at the examination of any slave or 
slaves, or upon the trial of any slave or slaves, and who shall be re¬ 
quired to attend by warrant under the hand and seal of any justice of 
the peace, and all and every slave and slaves who shall be brought as 
witnesses, shall be protected in their persons fiom all mesne or judi¬ 
cial process whatsoever, in their going to, attending at, and returning 
from, such examinations or trial, and that such slaves shall not be 
subject to be levied on. 
(How penalties shall be recovered, and disposed of.) 
LXXVIII. Aud be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. 
That all penalties in this act mentioned, and not already declared how 
they shall be recovered and applied, shall, if not exceeding twenty 
pounds, be recovered in a summary manner before any two of his ma¬ 
jesty’s justices of the peace, by distress and sale of the offender’s 
goods and chattels; and, if exceeding twenty pounds, to be recover¬ 
ed in the supreme court of judicature of this island, or in either of 
the courts of assize, by action of dtebt, bill, plaim, or information, 
wherein no essoin, protection, wager of law, or non vult ulterius 
prosequi, shall be entered; one moiety of which penalties shall be to 
the parish where the offence is cornin'tted, and the other moiety to the 
informer, or him, her, or them who shall sue for the same. 
