Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-07

indemnity WHICH VIII kIcD ACCRUE W TIC
benefit of tie treafury, and even OF the
owners rights to faid defaulter, if the
latter be arreffed after ten days ahfsnce,
without iuch declaration having been
made.
XIV, Every citizen in the cities, b..
roughs and the. country, who in contempt
of the prefent decree fhall contiase to
keep orihall hereafter be found to have
working Tor his benefit on his plantation or
at his feryice, one or more individuals not
belonging to ii, without the exrrefs per.
miiibn of the true owner, or without leave
from the conmiAary of government of the
commune where he reGdss, who fhould
have acknowledged his rate Of freedom,
lhall be conGdered iscretcr Of dc!au.ters.
XIV. Every i=creter or faycurer ofde-
fa!cs,ion ihall be condemned to Pay with
in twenty four hours, at the fait of the
commiiIsry of government where tie Of
fence may have been committed, 4 fire Of
two hundred dollars for each Of the de-
iaul,ers deGsnated in article XIV; And
if he poGcGcs not efficient to diicharge
the fine, he ihall be punihcd with one
years imprisonment. The fine for re-
petition of the cFence will be four hundred
dollars for each defaulter, beiides one
years imprisonment; in cafe Of infolvency
he ihall be banithed from the colony for
ten years-sod for the third offence, his
property hsll be cenGfcated and he lhall
be banifhed for the term OF his life. IL
all cafes there fhall be deduacd from The
laid pecuniary penalties, the indemnity
due to the owner of the de!aulter, at the
rate of one dollar per day, from the date
Of the declaration which lhall have been
made, according 10 article XIII.
XVI. Every. black individual or Of
color, belonging to fone plantation, who
lhaii be an accomplish orIavorer of defal.
cation, lnall undergo the fame penalties
as arc pronounced againtt the defaulters. :,
XVII. All proprietors, tenants, and
other private citizens in TIC towns, as well
as in the boroughs and country, are bound
under the fame penalties as the concealers
or defaulters, to declare, within ten days
after the publication Of ,hefe prefents, to
the commidary Of government in the vi.
c;ni,y of their reGdence, all TIE new
blacks made rriioners during the war,
and who have been put OF have got into
their pof1eilion, either prelent or not, that
the faid commiAares may make out no.
minative fatement, which they will for
ward to the hyperion ccmmiGary, charged
to report the fame to the general in Chief,
who will adopt iuch mcAfurcs as to him
may appear necsGary. The faid fate
ment fhall mention the habitation on
which the individual in qusAion is placed,
the name of the proprietor or tenant at the
iervice of whom he is and all c;rcumitan.
ces or o5!ervations which are known con.
corning aid individual. The individual
Of that cls[s who lhall be found dcfauIter,
unle(s he be within the exception of the
article VI, fhali be reputcd fray, and
lent Immediately TO the commi1ary of
government at Baaeterre, who will caufe
him to be put into the depot general of
the Jail of iaid city, giving advice of the
fame to the hyperion commiGary, who will
report as above.
XVIII. In order to reprcfs the abu.
fes and trcscheries which exifted in regard
to the impodtio,s of the tax of one fourth
to cultivators on the incomes, and
fu5ti.uting thereto an order Of things
more comfortable to humanity, from the
twentieth of fhermidor next Is AuguR,
ISos) excludvcly, the payment of one
fourth is abolifned. All accounts hall,
be regulated and fettled to that
epoch by the commiR4ries ofgovcrnment,
who fhall be Obliged to forward the fate
ment, within the month, to the hyperion
mentioning the payment, in
order that the general in chief may take |
fuch mealures as may be required if the |
fame lhould not have been effected; ex-
cept reipeaing the habitations which may |
have been burnr, wholly or in part, in the |
late eyehfs. which are fpIiy difcbayoed |