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5. And be it enacted, that the captain of each trading vessel shall be
enabled and is to divide the slaves in his ship into crews of not less
than ten nor more than twenty persons each, and to appoint one negro man
to have such authority severally over each crew, as according to his
judgment, with the advice of the mate and surgeon, he and they shall see
good to commit to them, and to allow to each of them some compensation,
in extraordinary diet and presents, not exceeding [ten shillings].
[Sidenote: Communication with female slaves, how punished.]
6. And be it enacted, that any European officer or seaman, having
unlawful communication with any woman slave, shall, if an officer, pay
five pounds to the use of the said woman, on landing her from the said
ship, to be stopped out of his wages, or if a seaman, forty shillings:
the said penalties to be recovered on the testimony of the woman so
abused, and one other.
[Sidenote: Premium to commanders of slave-ships.]
7. And be it enacted, that all and every commander of a vessel or
vessels employed in slave trade, having received certificates from the
port of the outfit, and from the proper officers in Africa and the West
Indies, of their having conformed to the regulations of this act, and of
their not having lost more than one in thirty of their slaves by death,
shall be entitled to a bounty or premium of [ten pounds].
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