The Virginia act of 1657 aimed directly at the stealing of Indian children by Indians who had been hired by the English. All such stolen children were to be returned to their own tribe within ten days, and five hundred pounds of tobacco were to be paid by the offending party to the informer of such kidnapping.[579] In 1672, the council of Maryland forbade the carrying of a certain friendly Indian out of the colony without special license from the governor.[580] In 1692, for the sake of preserving peace with the neighboring Indians, a law was enacted forbidding any one to “entice, surprise, transport, or cause to be transported, or sell or dispose of any friendly Indian or Indians whatsoever, or endeavor or attempt so to do, without license from the governor for the time being,” and offering a reward to any informer of such an event.[581] The same law was reënacted in 1705.[582] Article ninety-one of the Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 provided that no one except captives taken in just wars etc. should be held as slaves in the colony.[583] In 1649, the Body of Liberties was reënforced by a law decreeing: “If any man stealeth a man or mankind, he shall surely be put to death.”[584] Some attention was given to enforcing this law, for the records show an occasional imprisonment for stealing Indians.[585] On July 4, 1667, the governor of Barbadoes sent back to Massachusetts two Indians that had been taken to England and then carried to Barbadoes and sold as slaves. In an accompanying address to the governor and assistants of Massachusetts he promised to rectify all such abuses that might come under his jurisdiction.[586] But in spite of laws and precautions the practice of kidnapping continued throughout the colonial period. Other colonies followed the example of Massachusetts in making man-stealing a capital crime. New Jersey, in 1675,[587] and New Hampshire, in 1679,[588] enacted similar laws. Just how far the laws were intended to relate to kidnapped Indians is a matter for conjecture. They were in all probability intended to apply to the stealing of negro slaves, and there is nothing in their content to show that they were intended to relate also to the stealing of free Indians. CHAPTER VII +Processes of Enslavement: Trade+