=1705, October.= Chap. XLIX. An Act concerning Servants and Slaves. XXI. Penalty for entertaining runaway servants without a certificate shall be for every day sixty pounds of tobacco. XXIII. Persons rewarded for taking up runaway according to the distance.--_Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 447._ =53. Massachusetts Bay:--Regulation of free negroes. [§ 4.]= =1707.= An Act for the regulating of free negroes. "Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that every free negro or mulatto who shall harbour or entertain any negro or mulatto servant in his or her house, without the leave or consent of their respective masters or mistresses, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings to the use of the poor of the town, for each offence."--_Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 386._ =54. South Carolina:--For the better ordering of slaves.= =1712.= _Statutes at Large of South Carolina, II. 381._ =55. New Jersey:--Regulation of slaves.= =1713.= An Act for Regulating of Slaves. Sec. 2. "Negroes, etc., not having a pass may be taken up if 5 miles from Home whipped, and Persons so taking up have 5s." Sec. 3. "Negro belonging to another Province not having license, to be whipped, and the Taker of them to have 10s."--_Acts of the Assembly of New Jersey, 18._ =56. New Jersey:--Regulation of white servants.= =1713.= An Act for regulating of White Servants, and taking up Soldiers and Seamen deserting Her Majestys Service, and coming into this Colony. Sec. 2. "Servants absenting without leave to be adjudged by any one Justice to serve double the time, and pay or serve for costs." Sec. 3. "Those who counsel, aid, etc. such Servants to runaway, to forfeit 10£" etc. Sec. 4. "Those who knowingly conceal them, to pay 10s. per Day." Sec. 5. "Those who take up Runaways and carry them back to have 15s. and 6d. per mile for so doing." Sec. 8. "Any Boatman, etc., who shall carry them into or out of this Province, etc., not having Passes, as aforesaid, and Publick-Housekeepers entertaining them to forfeit 40s.," etc.--_Acts of the Assembly of New Jersey, 24._ =57. Rhode Island:--Ferriage of runaways. [§ 4.]=