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(in any one week) ; for the second offence to confinement,
with hard labour, for any time not exceeding one week ;
for the third, or any subsequent offence, to confinement
with hard labour, for any time not exceeding one fort-
night, with whipping not exceeding 20 stripes.
8. Any labourer who, by the careless use of fire, shall
wilfully endanger the property of his employer, or any
other person, or who shall wantonly injure the property
of his employer intrusted to his care, or who shall ill use
the cattle or other live stock of his employer, or who shall
by wilful negligence expose his employer's property to any
damage or injury, shall for such offence be adjudged, i❑
the discretion of the justice, either to extra labour in his
employer's service for any time not exceeding 15 hours in
the whole in any one week, or to confinement to hard
labour for any time not exceeding one month, or to any
number of stripes ❑ot exceeding 30 lashes, or to any two
or more of such punishments. Provided that this enact-
ment shall not exempt any such labourer• from his or her
liability to such actions or prosecutions as other persons
of flee condition may be subject and liable to, in respect
of any such acts by him or her done or omitted, although
no such labourer shall be liable to be sued or prosecuted,
both under this order and under such general law as
aforesaid.
9. Any apprenticed labourer who shall contumaciously
disobey the lawful commands of his employer shall be liable
to any one or more of the punishments last aforesaid.
10. Any three or more apprenticed labourers who shall
agree together to make any resistance to the lawful corn-
mantis of their employers shall be deemed guilty of an
unlawful conspiracy, and shall be adjudged to confinement
and to hard labour for any period not exceeding six months,
with whipping not exceeding 39 stripes.
11. Any three or more labourers who shall be engaged
in a combined and open resistance to the lawful commands
of their employer, shall, on conviction, be adjudged to the
punishments last aforesaid, or any one of them.
12. Any apprenticed labourer who shall be in a state
of drunkenness, or who shall be found fighting, or who
shall conduct himself in an insolent and insubordinate
manner towards his employer or any person in the imme-
diate superintenderce of his labour, shall, for every such
offence, be liable on conviction to imprisonment with hard
labour for any time not exceeding one week, or to whip-
ping not exceeding 15 stripes.
13. Provided always that no woman shall be subject to
be punished by whipping for any offence by her com•
mitted ; but that i❑ all cases aforesaid in which that
punishment is authorized it shall be understood as applying
to the case of males only, and that all the offences in re-
spect of which such punishment may be inflicted on any
such male offender shall, when committed by females, be
punished by confinement in the stocks, or by distinguish-
ing marks or dresses. The stocks to be employed for that
purpose shall all be according to one general model, to be
sanctioned by the Governor, and no female shall for any
offence by her committed be confined in the stocks after
sunset or before sunrise, or for more than eight hours in
the whole for any one day, or for more than two days
consecutively, or for more than six days in the whole for
any one offence.
14. All the offences aforesaid shall be inquired of by
the magistrates having special commissions, and not by
any other justice of the peace ; but any such special magis-
trate may, if he shall see occasion, refer any such case for
trial to the superior court of the colony.

CAP. VI.