A like opinion is expressed by many writers. See, for example, _Forum_, October, 1898 (16: 167); _Outlook_, Oct. 31, 1903 (75: 493); _Outlook_, Dec. 26, 1903 (75: 984). Footnote 244: For a number of references on the subject of rape and its punishment, and also on the subject of burning alive as a legal punishment for crime, during the colonial period, the writer is indebted to Mr. Albert Matthews. Footnote 245: “Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania” (1775), pp. 45–46. On May 5, 1722, it became the law of Pennsylvania that importers of servants who have been convicted of rape must pay a duty and enter security for good behavior for one year.—Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania, III, 264. Footnote 246: Colonial Laws of New York, I, 765–766. Compare law of Aug. 8, 1688, in the Island of Barbadoes, which provided that two justices and three freeholders were to “give sentence of Death upon” negroes, for murder, rape, burning houses, &c.—Acts of Assembly Passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 (1721), pp. 140–141. Footnote 247: Laws of the State of Delaware (1797), I, 102–105. By an act passed in January, 1797, thirty-nine lashes well laid on were added to the punishment for an attempted rape on a white woman or maid.—Laws of the State of Delaware (1797), II, 1321–1324. Footnote 248: Laws of Maryland (1799), Chapter XIV. Footnote 249: See John S. Bassett: “Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina”—Johns Hopkins Historical Studies (1896), XIV, 199. In Virginia the punishment of castration was so frequently inflicted upon slaves by the county courts that the Assembly deemed it necessary to enact that “it shall not be lawful for any county or corporation court, to order and direct castration of any slave, except such slave shall be convicted of an attempt to ravish a white woman, in which case they may inflict such punishment.”—See Hening: “Virginia Statutes at Large,” VI, 3; VIII, 358; Samuel Sheperd: “Virginia Statutes at Large” (New Series, 1835), I, 125. Footnote 250: “Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay” (J. Noble, 1901), p. 74. The following passage is taken from the _Boston Chronicle_, Sept. 26–Oct. 3, 1768 (No. 42, I, 383): “We hear that a negro fellow was tried at the Assizes held lately at Worcester, for a rape, and found guilty, and received sentence of death.—A white man was also tried and found guilty of the same crime, and sentenced to sit on the gallows.” Footnote 251: See “Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society” (1874), 2d Series, III, 178. Footnote 252: See J. R. Brackett: “The Negro in Maryland” (1889), p. 131. Footnote 253: _Pennsylvania Gazette_, Dec. 14, 1744 (N. J. _Archives_, XII, 244). Footnote 254: