[Sidenote: Of the punishment of negroes.]
35. And be it enacted, that no blows or stripes exceeding thirteen,
shall be inflicted for one offence upon any negro, without the order of
one of his Majesty's justices of peace.
[Sidenote: Of the same.]
36. And it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the protector of
negroes, as often as on complaint and hearing he shall be of opinion
that any negro hath been cruelly and inhumanly treated, or when it
shall be made to appear to him that an overseer hath any particular
malice, to order, at the desire of the suffering party, the said negro
to be sold to another master.
37. And be it enacted, that, in all cases of injury to member or life,
the offences against a negro shall be deemed and taken to all intents
and purposes as if the same were perpetrated against any of his
Majesty's subjects; and the protector of negroes, on complaint, or if he
shall receive credible information thereof, shall cause an indictment to
be presented for the same; and in case of suspicion of any murder of a
negro, an inquest by the coroner, or officer acting as such, shall, if
practicable, be held into the same.
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