=1670, October.= Act I. An Act concerning runaways. Reward for apprehending runaways is reduced to two hundred pounds of tobacco. Servants are to serve four months for every two hundred pounds of tobacco. Masters who fail to cut their servants' hair after twice running away shall be fined two hundred pounds of tobacco. Every constable through whose hands a runaway passes is to whip the servant severely. Constables allowing runaways to escape shall pay four hundred pounds of tobacco. Masters must not allow their servants to go free until the time of service has been worked out.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 277._ =36. Virginia:--Reward to the first taker up of runaways.= =1670, October.= Act XIII. Runawayes. Only the first taker up of a runaway shall be rewarded.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 283._ =37. Virginia:--Apprehension of Runaways. [§ 8.]= =1672, October.= Act VIII. An Act for the apprehension and suppression of runawayes, negroes and slaves. Runaways resisting may be killed or wounded, and if they die from the effects of a wound the public shall pay the owner, but the person inflicting the injury is not to be questioned. Indians shall be rewarded by twenty armes length of Roanoake or the value thereof in goods for the apprehension of a runaway. Act is to continue in force only until the next assembly.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 299._ =38. Maryland:--Apprehension of runaways.= =1671, April.= The three acts of 1650, 1662, and 1666 have not proved sufficient encouragement to people to apprehend runaways, therefore a statute against runaways and such persons that shall give them entertainment and others that shall travel without passes is enacted.--_Maryland Archives, Assembly Proceedings, 298._ =39. New Jersey:--Fugitive servants and apprentices.=