An act for recovering and extending the trade with the Indian settlements in America and preventing for the future some evil practices formerly committed in that trade.

ANNO 14 GEORGII II. CAP. 6.

Enacts, Clause 1.---“That all Indians who shall arrive, or be imported for sale into this island, from and after the first day of June, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and forty-one, shall be free, to all intents and purposes, as any other aliens or foreigners are; and that all sales made in this island, to any person or persons residing or that shall reside or belong to this island, of any Indian or Indians, from and after the said first day of June, in the said year seventeen hundred and forty-one, shall be absolutely null and void; and that if any person or persons shall, from and after the said first day of June, seventeen hundred and forty-one, sell or buy any Indian or Indians, so imported, every such person or persons shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of fifty pounds; to be recovered in the supreme court of judicature of this island, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoin, protection, wager of law, or injunction, shall be granted or allowed, or non vult ulterius prosequi be entered; and one moiety whereof shall be to the informer, or him or them who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety to the use of his majesty, his heirs and successors, for and towards the support of the government of this island, and the contingent charges thereof.” (See 17 Geo. 3, cap. 28.)