monwealth
within ten days; and if he or she shall not so depart, the same
process shall be had and punishment inflicted, and so _toties
quoties_."[56]

The following notice, with the subjoined names, shows that the cruel
law was enforced.

NOTICE TO BLACKS.

The Officers of Police having made return to the Subscriber of
the names of the following persons, who are Africans or Negroes,
not subjects of the Emperor of _Morocco_ nor citizens of the
_United States_, the same are hereby warned and directed to
depart out of this Commonwealth before the 10th day of October
next, as they would avoid the pains and penalties of the law in
that case provided, which was passed by the Legislature, March
26, 1788.

CHARLES BULFINCH,
_Superintendent_.

_By Order and Direction of the Selectmen._

_Portsmouth_--Prince Patterson, Eliza Cotton, Flora Nash.

_Rhode Island_--Thomas Nichols and Philis Nichols, Hannah
Champlin, Plato Alderson, Raney Scott, Jack Jeffers, Thomas
Gardner, Julius Holden, Violet Freeman, Cuffy Buffum, Sylvia
Gardner, Hagar Blackburn, Dolly Peach, Polly Gardner, Sally
Alexander, Philis Taylor.

_Providence_--Dinah Miller, Salvia Hendrick, Rhode Allen, Nancy
Hall, Richard Freeman, Elizabeth Freeman, Nancy Gardner, Margaret
Harrison.

_Connecticut_--Bristol Morandy, John Cooper, Scipio Kent,
Margaret Russell, Phoebe Seamore, Phoebe Johnson, Jack Billings.

_New London_--John Denny, Thomas Burdine, Hannah Burdine.

_New York_--Sally Evens, Sally Freeman, Caesar West and Hannah
West, Thomas Peterson, Thomas Santon, Henry Sanderson, Henry
Wilson, Robert Willet, Edward Cole, Mary Atkins, Polly Brown,
Amey Spalding, John Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, George Homes,
Prince Kilsbury, Abraham Fitch, Joseph Hicks, Abraham Francis,
Elizabeth Francis, Sally Williams, William Williams, Rachel
Pewinck, David Dove, Esther Dove, Peter Bayle, Thomas Bostick,
Katy Bostick, Prince Hayes, Margaret Bean, Nancy Hamik, Samuel
Benjamin, Peggy Ocamum, Primus Hutchinson.

_Philadelphia_--Mary Smith, Richard Allen, Simon Jeffers, Samuel
Posey, Peter Francies, Prince Wales, Elizabeth Branch, Peter
Gust, William Brown, Butterfield Scotland, Clarissa Scotland,