=50. New York:--Punishment of runaways to Canada. [§ 8.]=
=1705.= An act to prevent the Running away of Negro Slaves out of the City and County of _Albany_, to the French at Canada. "Whereas the City and County of Albany are the Frontiers of this Province toward the _French_ of Canada; and that it is of great concern to this Colony, during this time of War with the French, that no Intelligence be carried from the said City and County to the French at Canada: ... Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by his Excellency the Governor, Council and Assembly, etc., that all and every Negro Slave or Slaves, belonging to any of the Inhabitants of the city and county of _Albany_, who shall from and after the First Day of _August_ of this present year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and five, be found traveling Forty miles above the City of Albany, at or above a certain place called _Sarachtoge_ (unless in Company of his, her, or their Master, Mistress, or such employed by them, or either of them), and be thereof convicted by the Oaths of Two or more credible Witnesses, before the Court of Sessions of the Peace of the said City and County (which Court of Sessions are hereby Authorized and Impowered to hear and determine the same, in manner aforesaid, and thereupon to award execution), he, she, or they so Convicted, shall suffer the Pains of Death, as in cases of Felony."--_Acts of Province of New York, 77._
=1705.= An act for Reviving and continuing an Act, Intituled, An Act for Regulating Slaves, 1702 (expired in 1712).--_Acts of the Province of New York, 79._
=52. Virginia:--Runaway servants and slaves.=
=1705, October.= Chap. XLIX. An Act concerning Servants and Slaves. XXI. Penalty for entertaining runaway servants without a certificate shall be for every day sixty pounds of tobacco. XXIII. Persons rewarded for taking up runaway according to the distance.--_Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 447._
=53. Massachusetts Bay:--Regulation of free negroes. [§ 4.]=
=1707.= An Act for the regulating of free negroes. "Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that every free negro or mulatto who shall harbour or entertain any negro or mulatto servant in his or her house, without the leave or consent of their respective masters or mistresses, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings to the use of the poor of the town, for each offence."--_Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 386._