h and every such
Person so imported or brought into this Province forfeit and
pay the sum of one hundred Pounds to be recovered by
presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury and when so
recovered to be to his Majesty for the use of this
Government or by action of debt in any of his Majesty's
Courts of Record and in case of such recovery the one moiety
thereof to be to his majesty for the use of this Government
the other moiety to the Person or Persons who shall sue for
the same.

"_And be it further Enacted_ that from and after the Tenth
Day of April next any Person or Persons that shall purchase
any Negro or other Person or Persons as a Slave or Slaves
imported or brought into this Province as aforesaid shall
forfeit and pay for every Negro or other Person so purchased
Fifty Pounds to be recovered and disposed of in the same way
and manner as before directed.

"_And be it further Enacted_ that every Person, concerned in
importing or bringing into this Province, or purchasing any
such Negro or other Person or Persons as aforesaid within
the same; who shall be unable, or refuse, to pay the
Penalties or forfeitures ordered by this Act; shall for
every such offence suffer Twelve months' imprisonment
without Bail or mainprise.

"_Provided_ allways that nothing in this act contained shall
extend to subject to the Penalties aforesaid the Masters,
Mariners, Owners or Freighters of any such Vessel or
Vessels, as before the said Tenth Day of April next shall
have sailed from any Port or Ports in this Province, for any
Port or Ports not within this Government, for importing or
bringing into this Province any Negro or other Person or
Persons as Slaves who in the prosecution of the same voyage
may be imported or brought into the same. _Provided_ he
shall not offer them or any of them for sale.

"_Provided_ also that this act shall not be construed to
extend to any such Person or Persons, occasionally hereafter
coming to reside within this Province, or passing thro' the
same, who may bring such Negro or other Person or Persons as
necessary servants into this Province provided that the stay
or residence of such Person or Persons shall not exceed
Twelve months or that such Person or Persons within said
time send such Negro or