Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-15

the same was for the first offense "ba
whipped, branded with the letter R in
the Drawn of the left thumb by an iron
sufficiently hot to make a lasting
mark; fine. Imprisonment, pilloried or
cropped, or shall have any one or more
of these punishments at the discretion
of the court On March II. 1774 was
passed "an act for striking 100000
pounds in bills of credit" the preamble
set forth whereas. through the great
scarcity of gold and silver within the
province, daily increasing from the
purchase CT the manufactures neces-
sarily imported from Great Britain.
and the constant sinkine OF the bills
of credit emitted G5,r.1g the late war
fer his maj iasty's service. the inhabi-
tants of this colony are greatly OBJ
structed in extending their settlements,
improving and cuitivating their lands,
and lie under great difficulties in pay
ing their Just debts; we, the House of
Representatives for remedy thereof. do
pray that it may be enacted" etc Tho
act is very lengthy, containing 81 sec
tions detailing minutely how the
money shall be printed, signed and the
amount to be distributed to the loan
commissioners of the different coun-
ties, to be loaned out on real estate Sc
curity for the term of 20 years at 5 per
cent. interest the sum allowed for
Gloucester county was 1882 pounds 1t
would be interesting to know what
proportion of these loans were repaid.
In January, 1910. was passed an
Act for revising and continuing the
Court of Sessions and Common Pleas
in the County of Gloucester"
On January IL. I'LL. "An act enabl
ing the owners of meadows and
marshes adjoining to and on both sides
OF the creek that surrounds the Island
of Burlington to stop out the tide from
them. was passed. This is the first
private act passed by the assembly and
the first of number of acts authoriz-
ing the owners of marshes to embank
the same Some of those relating to
Gloucester county being. in 1713. Sarah
Miekle. John Dole. John Kaighn. To-
bias Griscom. etc. adjacent to the Della
ware river. township p CT Newton. to step.
the tide; in 1850. TO enable owners of
meadow on Little Timber creek to
maintain dam; in 1850 to continue
the dam across Woodbury. creek; in
1862 authorizing the owners of mead
ow on the east side of Great Mantau
creek to drain the same. and keep the
bank in repair; in 1865, to enable the
owners of a certain meadow and marsh
On westerly side of Raccoon creek to
keep up and maintain the banks; in
1868. to enable the owners of meadows
on Woodbury. creek ''henceforth to be
called the Lower Meadow Company of
Woodbury." to keep and maintain the
dam; in 1774. enabling the owners of
meadow adjoining 'Repaupau creek in
the county of Gloucester to cast up,
repair and maintain dam and bank"
to keep out the tide; in the same year
to enable the owners of marshes "on
the southwest side of Raccoon creek,
between the banks of Constantine
Wilkins and Conrad Shoemaker, in
the township of Woolwich, known by
the name of Thoroughfare Island, to
stop the tide
In 1913 was passed an act to "pre-
vent the waste of timber and lay
duty upon all timber, pipe and hogs
head slaves exported from the prov
ince." There were several acts of this
nature passed later which would seem
to indicate that scarcity of timber
and fuel was even then feared.
On March II. 1913, was passed "an
act for regulating slaves BY this
act any person who shall buy, sell,
barter, trade or traffic with any negro,
Indian or mulatto slave for any rum,
wine, beer. cider or other strong drink
for the first offense shall be fined 20
shillings, for the second and every sub
seG1ent offense 40 shillings. The sec
ond section provides that any person
who shall take up any slave more than
five miles from the masters house
without written leave of absence from
the master" he or they so taken up
shall be whipped by the party who
takes them up or by his order upon
the bare back not exceeding 20 lashes,
and the taker up shall have for his
reward 5 shillings." The third section
provides that if ANY slave from an
other province shall come into this
province without license under the
hand of his master such slave shall be
taken up by any person within this
province and shall be whipped by the
nearest constable not exceeding 20
lashes on the bare back and the per-
son taking them up shall receive 10
shillings and the constable for whipping
them 9 shillings. Section provides
that If any slave shall presume to as
sault or strike any freeman or woman
protesting christianity any two JUS
tices of the peace are hereby authorized
to inf1ict corporal punishment not ex-
tending to life or limb Section 10
provides that If any slave shall steal
to the value of pence and under s