=58. South Carolina:--Additional Act to Act of 1712.=
=1714.= _Statutes at Large of South Carolina, II. 620._
=59. New York:--Act of 1705 revived. [§ 8.]=
=1715.= An Act for Reviving and Continuing an Act, Intituled an act to prevent the Running away of Negro Slaves out of the city and county of Albany to the French at Albany, 1705.--_Laws Province of New York, 218._
=60. North Carolina:--Servants and slaves.=
=1715.= An Act concerning servants and Slaves. Title only given.--_Laws of North Carolina, 21, 27._
=61. New Hampshire:--Runaway minors and servants.=
=1715.= An Act for preventing Men's Sons or Servants absenting themselves from their Parents or Masters Service without Leave.--"That no commander of any private man of war, or master of any merchant ship or vessel coming into, tarrying or abiding in, or going forth of any port, harbour, or place within this province, shall receive, harbour, entertain, conceal or secure on board such ship or other vessel, or suffer to be there harbour'd or detain'd any man's son, being under age or apprentice or covenant servant (knowing him to be such, or after notice thereof given) without license or consent of his parent or master in writing under his hand first had and obtain'd, on pain of forfeiting the sum of _five pounds per_ week, and so proportionably for a longer or shorter time, that any son, apprentice, or servant shall be held, harbour'd, conceal'd, or detain'd on board any such ship or other vessel, as aforesaid, without license and consent as aforesaid; the one moiety thereof to her Majesty, to be employed toward the support of the government of the province, and the other moiety unto the parent or master of such son, apprentice or servant that shall inform, or sue for the same, in any of her majesty's courts of record, within this province, by bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoign, protection or wager of law shall be allowed. § 2. _And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid_, that every apprentice or covenant servant who shall unlawfully absent himself from his master, and enter himself on board any ship or vessel, as aforesaid, with intent to leave his master's service, or incline there more than the space of twenty-four hours, and be thereof convicted before any two of her majesty's justices of the peace, or in general sessions, within this province, shall forfeit unto his master such further service, from and after the expiration of the term which his said master had in him at the time of his departure as the said court shall order, not exceeding one year."--¤_Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, 40._