| Date | 1642 |
|---|---|
| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | VA |
| Title | Act XXI |
| Description/Full Text | This section recites that complaints have been made against divers persons who entertain and enter into covenants with runaway servants and freemen who formerly hired themselves to others, to the prejudice if not the utter undoing of divers poor men, also thereby encouraging servants to run from their masters. It provides a penalty to the person hiring them of twenty pounds of tobacco if the hiring is made without certificate. |
| Additional Information | – |
| Source | Black Laws of Virginia, By: June Purcell Guild |
| Transcriber Notes | – |
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