=1656.= Resolution of the States General ratifying the treaty of Hartford, passed February 22, 1656.--"Respecting Fugitives. It is agreed that the same method shall be observed between the United English Colonies and the Dutch nation in this country of New Netherland, agreeably to the eighth Article of the confederation between the United English Colonies in that case provided."--¤_Laws and Ordinances of New Netherlands, 216._ =15. City of Amsterdam:--Runaway colonists banished.= =1656, December.= Articles and Ordinances revised and enacted by the Right Honorable the Lords Burgomasters of the City of Amsterdam, according to which shall be engaged and sworn all those who shall hereafter enter the service of the Lord's Burgomasters of the City of Amsterdam, for the purpose of going with their own, or chartered ships to New Netherlands and the limits of the West India Company's Grant, etc. Passed December, 1656.--"Whoever runs off to the French, English, or any other Christian or Indian neighbors by whatsoever name they may be called, shall, in addition to the forfeiture of all his monthly pay to the City, be banished forever from New Netherland as a perjured villain, and if he afterward come to fall into the hands of the City, he shall, without any consideration, be punished by death or otherwise, according to the exigency of the case."--¤_Laws and Ordinances of New Netherlands, 273._ =16. Virginia:--Entertainment of runaways.= =1657-8, March.= Act XV. Concerning Hireing Servants. Thirty pounds of tobacco shall be paid for every night a servant or person without a certificate is entertained.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, I. 439._ =17. Virginia:--Punishment of runaways.= =1657-8, March.= Act XVI. Against Runnaway Servants. Runnaways shall double the time of service absent at the end of their time of indenture. For the second offence they shall be branded with the letter R. and double the time lost.--_Hening, Laws of Virginia, I. 440._ =18. Virginia:--Huie and crie after runaways.=