21. Virginia:—Payment of Dutch shipmasters.
1659-60, March. Act XV. An Act for the Pay of Dutch Masters bringing in Runnaway Servants. Whenever a master shall refuse to pay the cost of returning a runnaway from the Dutch, the payment shall be made by the secretary at his office.—Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, I. 539.
22. Virginia:—Apprehension of runaways.
1660-61, March. Act X. Apprehending of Runnawayes.—"Whereas the pursuit and takeing of runnaways is hindered chiefly by the neglect of constables in making search according to their warrants, Bee itt enacted that every constable shall make diligent search and inquiry through his precincts, and what constable soever shall upon search apprehend such runaways shall receive from the master of the servant for his encouragement two hundred pounds of tobaccoe, and if any constable shall neglect he shall be fined three hundred and fifty pounds of tobaccoe and caske according to former act."—0 Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 21.
23. Virginia:—English runnaway with negroes. [§ [3.]]
1660-1, March. Act XIII. "Bee itt enacted that in case any English servant shall runaway in company with any negroes who are incapable of making satisfaction by addition of time, Bee itt enacted that the English so running away in company with them shall serve for the time of the said negroes absence as they are to do for their owne by a former act" —0 Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 26.
24. Virginia:—Glocester to have jurisdiction over runaways.
1660-1, March. It was ordered that the county of Glocester have the power to make such laws for the recovering of runaways as shall be found necessary and convenient.—Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 35.
25. Virginia:—Runaway servants.
1661-2, March. Act CII. Runaways.—Penalties for running away are the same as in former acts. English servants if running away with negroes, and the negroes die or be lost, shall pay either four thousand five hundred pounds of tobacco and caske, or four years service for every negro so lost or dead.—Hening, Laws of Virginia, II. 117.