"_Be it enacted_, That from and after the end of this present session of assembly, that all such free mulatto women, having bastard children, either within or after the time of their service, (_and their issue_,) shall be subject to the same penalties that white women and their issue are, for having mulatto bastards, by the act, entitled, An act relating to servants and slaves. "_And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid_, that from and after the end of this present session of assembly, that all free negro women, having bastard children by white men, (_and their issue_,) shall be subject to the same penalties that white women are, by the act aforesaid, for having bastards by negro men."[459] Virginia which faced the same problem did not lag far behind Maryland. In 1630 the Governor and Council in Court ordered Hugh Davis to be soundly whipped before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of a Christian by defiling his body in lying with a Negro, which he was to acknowledge next Sabbath day. In 1662 the colony imposed double fines for fornication with a Negro, but did not restrict intermarriage until 1691.[460] The words of the preamble give the reasons for this action. It says: "And for the prevention of that abominable mixture and spurious issue which hereafter may increase in this dominion, as well by negroes, mulattoes, and Indians intermarrying with English, or other white women, as by their unlawful accompanying with one another, _Be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted_, That for the time to come, whatsoever English or other white man or woman being free shall intermarry with a negro, mulatto, or Indian man or woman bond or free shall within three months after such marriage be banished and removed from this dominion forever, and that the justices of each respective countie within this dominion make it their perticular care, that this act be put in effectuall execution."