=1683.= No title given. General Assembly. VI. "And for the preventing Servants running away from their Masters, and other Vagabonds, _Be it hereby enacted_ by the authority aforesaid, that all Magistrates, Officiers, Ordinary Keepers, and other Inhabitants within this Province, take special notice of all suspicious Travellers, and require their pass or certificates, under the Hand and Seal of the Magistrate or Magistrates, or Publick Notary of the Place of their last Abode, to satisfy the clearness of his, her, or their coming away, and for want of such Pass or Certificate, to secure such Person or Persons into the Custody of the next constable; which Person and Persons so to be secured, or their Masters, shall pay such Charge and Trouble as the Person or Persons shall be put to, in the securing them as aforesaid, before they shall be discharged, at the Discretion of two or more of the Magistrates of the said Province."--¤_Acts of the Proprietary Governments of New Jersey, 477._ =43. South Carolina.--Prevention of runaways.= =1683, Nov. 7.= An Act to prevent Runaways. Title only preserved. Table of contents.--_Statutes at Large of South Carolina, II._ =44. Virginia:--Repeal of law of 1663, September.= =1684, April.= Act III. An act repealing the act concerning the persuit of runawayes. The law of September, 1663, has been found inconvenient in practice, it is therefore repealed.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, III. 12._ =45. East New Jersey:--Runaway servants. [§ 2.]= =1686, April.= Chap. XI. An Act concerning Runaway Servants. "Whereas the securing of Servants that Runaway, or otherwise absent themselves from their Masters lawful Occasions, is found a material encouragement to such Persons as come into this country to settle Plantations and Populate the Province; for the better encouragement of such Persons, Be it therefore enacted by the Governor and Council and Deputies now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, that if any Servant or Servants, Prentices or Covenant Servants, Run away or absent him or herself unlawfully from their Masters or Mistress' Service, being taken up or secured, so that the master or mistress hath him or her again, for the better Encouragement of such Person or Persons so securing him or them, they shall have _Twenty Shillings_ paid him or them," etc.--_New Jersey Laws, 292._ =46. Virginia: Law of 1670 amended.= =1686, October.= Act I. Slight change in making out the certificate for apprehension of runaway.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, III. 29._ =47. South Carolina:--Inhibition of trade with runaways.=