Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15
WOODBURY.. n. J.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1903

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shall employ, harbor, conceal or enter
houses, outhouses or plantation" shall
forfeit 40 shillings. Section 13 pro-
vides that no negro, Indian or mu-
latto slave that shall hereafter be
made free shall enjoy, hold or possess
any houses. lands, tenements or here
dictaments within this province in his
or her own right in fee simple or fee
tail, but the same shall escheat to her
majesty Section Is says, "And,
whereas, it is found by experience
that free negroes are an idle, slothful
people and prove very often charge to
the place where they are, be it there
fore further resolved that any master
or mistress manumitting or satting at
liberty any negro or mulatto slave
shall enter into sufficient security unto
her majesty with two securities in the
sum of 200 pounds, to pay yearly and
every year to such negro or mulatto
slave the sum of 20 pounds" Act of Oc-
tober %. 1851. provided that any per-
son suspecting any tavern keeper Of
selling liquor to their slaves may
apply to justice of the peace, who
shall issue his warrant for the arrest
of the tavern keeper. who shall be re-
quired to take an oath or affirmation
that he nor any enc with his consent
has at any time sold liquor to the COM
plainant's slave If he refuses to
take the oath it is made sufficient evil
dence to convict him, the penalty for
the selling being 20 shillings for the
first offense. the second offense 40
shillings and every subsequent offense
pounds" Other acts provide that
more than five slaves meeting to-
gether shall be whipped upon the bare
back not exceeding 20 lashes." and the
same penalty is provided if any slave
is seen or found five miles from his
masters home after 9 o'clock at night.
An act of May 10. 1858 provides that
"any slave who shall murder or CON
spire or attempt to murder or sliall
wilfully burn any dwelling. barn. sta
Bile, clubhouse. stack or stacks of corn
ar hay" shall suffer death without ben
eft of clergy, and that any slave who
sllaH be 1conviatad of msnslaughter or
stealing aDve pounds or shall com
nit any okter felony or burglary shall
suffer death or such other penalties as
the judges may think proper"
An act of March IL. 1713, providing
for the Importation of white servants
into the province and regulating their
punishment" provides that ''if they de-
part or absent themselves from their
service shall upon arrest be required
to serve an additional time double
what they were absent" This relates
to persons brought from Europe by
captains of vessels and sold out for a
certain term of years for pay for their
| passage money and outfit. From this
class of immigrants came some of our
most worthy families
Act of March H. 1713 providing for
the qualification of jurors says. Grand
jurors shall be worth 100 pounds in
real estate and petit jurors worth 100
pounds in real and personal estate
Act of March II, 1918, provides for
establishing a ferry between Purling-
ton, N. J.. and New Bristol. Pa" There
are several acts subsequent to this,
establishing and regulating ferries and
fixing rates of ferriage.
An act of 1713 declares that the
solemn affirmation and declaration Of
the people called Quakers shall be ac-
cepted instead of an oath in the usual
form" 'and enabling said people to
serve as Jurors" and to Fiji any Of
fee or trust within the province"
An act CT the s2me e sion is for the
naturalization of Peter Dole. a native
of France; there are later number
of acts of naturalization. in moay
cases quite number being naturaliz-
ed by one act
An act of March 81. 1719. provides
mo person or persons whatsoever
shall rake or gather up any oysters
or shells from or off any beds within
the said province. from the 10th day
OF May to the 1st day of September
of each and every year. The second
section prohibits any one not residing
within the province taking any oysters
or putting them on any boat not owned
within the province, and the third sec
tion appoints officers to enforce the
law, giving them power to enter any
boats suspected of violating the law.
An act of the same session fixes the
rate of interest at per cent. This in
1873 was reduced to Z per cent, and
subsequently reduced to per cent.
An act of May, 1922, recites that
Whereas, some persons in this prov
ince, disaffected to his majesty's per-
son and government, propagate their
pernicious principles to the great hurt
of his majesty's faithful and loyal sub
jects," it was enacted that any two
justices of the peace or others ap-
pointed for the purpose, were to ad-
minister prescribed oath to any per-
son whom they suspected of disloy-
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