Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-08-07
AN ACT

Ts4trevcn: anzasyfM Hunting ind Ranging.
/. Be it enacted, That If any person or per-
sons, shall at any time shoot, hunt op range
upon the lands or tencslents, Or fish or fowl
IN any creeks eS waters included within the
bounds eff any ethes person or persons without
license first obtained Of the owner Of such
lands, every such offender shall forfeit and
pay three dollars for every such offence, to be
recovered with costs before any justice of the
peace Of the county where the offence Shall
be committed, by the informer, to lis own.
use in which information, the confession of
the party accused orthe oath ofone credible
witness, shall be sufficient evidence. And
where the ewner Of the land shall prosecute
for any unlawful shooting. hunting, ranging,
fishing or fowling within his bounds, the oath
of such owner shall be sufficient evidence to
convict the offender But in that case the pc
nalty shall be paid to the oyerseer of the poor
Of the district wherein the offender resides, to
the use of the poor such district and more
over every such offender Shall be liable to the
action of the party grieved, at the common
law, for his or her damages.
2. If any person shall be- the third time
convicted of any such offence as Aforesaid, the
Justice Of the peace, before whom such con-
yiction shall be, over and above giving judgS
ment for the aforesaid forfeiture, shall re-
uuire such offenderto enter into recognizance
with one or more sufficient suretics, to the goo
vernon for the time being, and his successors,
III the penalty ofthirty dollars Tor his good be-
haviour, during one whole year from thence
next following; or In case Of refusal SO to do,
shall commit Linn to the common jail, there
to remain, until he give such security, or UNI
til the expiration of one month. And if after
such security given such offender shall be-
convicted of shooting, hunting, or ranging,
fishing or foNling unlawfully as aforesaid,
within the time in his recognizahce limited,
such offence Shall be breach of the good beha-
'yiour, and the penalty of his recognizance
shall be forfeited to the oyerseers of the poor
for the benefit Of the poor Of the district,
wherein such conviction shall be.
8. All and every act or acts, within the
puryiew of this act, shall be and the same ars
hereby repealed.
a. This act shall commence in force frora
and after the passing thereof.
Revised Code, hage I52.
No slave shall go from the tenemerts Of
his master or other person with whom he
lives, without a pass or some letter or token
whereby it may appear, that he is proceeding
by authority from his master, employer or
overseer he does it shall be lawful for any
person to apprehehd and carry him before a
Justice of the peace, to be by his order pu-
nished with stripes, or not, in his discretion,
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And if any slave shall presume to como *
be upon the plantation of any person whatso-
ever, without leave in writing, from his or
her owner or oyerseer, not being sent upon
lawful business, it shall be lawful for the owns
er or oyerseer Of such plantation, to give or
order such slave ten lashes for every such of
fence See Revised Code, page Jss, New
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