An additional Act to and Act, intituled, An Act concerning Servants and Slaves

I. WHEREAS many great Charges have arisen to the Province by Punishment of Slaves, who having Liberty from their Owners to hire themselves out, and have committed Robberies; by the Importation of Slaves from Foreign Parts, for Crimes by them committed; by the Condemnation of Slaves to Death for Capital Crimes, for Want of a Punishment adequate to the Crimes they have been guilty of; and by the high Valuation of Slaves condemned to Death, or killed by Virtue of an Outlawry

II. BE it Enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, and by the Authority of the same, That no Person who shall permit any Slave to hire himself or herself out, shall be intitled to receive any Pay from the Public, should they be punished for any Crimes by them committed during the Time of such Permission: Any Usage or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.

III. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person hereafter purchasing any Slave, transported for Crimes form Foreign Parts into this Province, shall be intituled to receive any Payment from the Public, should such Slave afterwards be convicted and punished for any Crimes committed within this Province; unless he first make Oath, in the Court appointed for trying such Slave, that he did not, at the Time of his purchasing, know that such Slave had been transported here for any Crimes committed in Foreign Parts.

IV. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That no male Slave shall, for the first Offence, be condemned to Death, unless for Murder or Rape; but for every other Capital Crime, shall, for the first Offence, suffer Castration; which Punishment every Court trying such Slave, shall be impowered, and are hereby directed to cause to be inflicted; and the Sheriff shall cause such Judgement to be duly executed; for which he shall have and receive, from the Public, Twenty Shillings, Proclamation Money, and not more; any Usage or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.

V. PROVIDED always, That such Slave be valued by the Court trying him, in the usual Manner, that in Case Death should ensue, the Owner might be paid by the Public; and that the Sime of Three Pounds, Proclamation Money, shall be allowed and paid by the Public, to defray the Expence of the Cure of each Slave castrated.

VI. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall not be allowed by the Public to the Owner of any Slave which shall hereafter happen to be convicted of any Capital Offence, killed on Outlawry, or in bring apprehended when run away, more than the Sum of Sixty Pounds, Proclamation Money; any Law or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.