The law of 1706 proved to be inadequate.[672] The continued importation of Indians and the still existing fear of having ungovernable and dangerous slaves in the colony, led to the passage in 1712 of a second act, already mentioned, which levied a duty of £20 on every negro or Indian imported.[673] Masters of vessels bringing them in were required to state their number and the name of the importer. Any negro or Indian in whose case these provisions were violated was to be seized and sold by provincial officers, and the money obtained from their sale paid to the treasurer for the use of the government. Duties paid upon any negro or Indian imported, but exported again within twenty days, however, were to be returned. One Samuel Holt was appointed to put the act into execution, and was given the necessary powers to use force, if necessary, to find concealed negroes and Indians whose owners had not complied with the terms of the act, and to dispose in public sale of those so captured. Owners could bring back their runaway negro or Indian slaves, and “gentlemen and strangers” traveling in the province were allowed to retain their negro or Indian slaves for a time not exceeding six months.[674] But the act was not put into operation, for it was repealed by the queen in council, February 20, 1714.[675] CHAPTER VIII +Other Processes of Enslavement+ It sometimes happened that the Indians sold to the whites, for a specified number of years, members of their own tribe as a punishment for some grievous offense.[676] Families sold some of their own members into temporary servitude to obtain money or other necessities,[677] or an individual Indian offered himself or his children as security for loans, and, on failure to meet the obligations, became the slaves of the creditors.[678] Occasionally an outcast or disgraced Indian, having lost his position in the family or the tribe, sold himself into slavery to the whites in order to escape punishment at the hands of his own people and to secure future protection for himself.