[Sidenote: Free negroes how to be punished.]
40. And be it enacted, that the protector of negroes shall be and is
authorized and required to act as a magistrate for the coercion of all
idle, disobedient, or disorderly free negroes, and he shall by office
prosecute them for the offences of idleness, drunkenness, quarrelling,
gaming, or vagrancy, in the supreme court, or cause them to be
prosecuted before one justice of peace, as the case may require.
[Sidenote: Of the same.]
41. And be it enacted, that, if any free negro hath been twice convicted
for any of the said misdemeanors, and is judged by the said protector of
negroes, calling to his assistance two justices of the peace, to be
incorrigibly idle, dissolute, and vicious, it shall be lawful, by the
order of the said protector and two justices of peace, to sell the said
free negro into slavery: the purchase-money to be paid to the person so
remanded into servitude, or kept in hand by the protector and governor
for the benefit of his family.
[Sidenote: Governor to receive and transmit annual reports.]
42. And be it enacted, that the governor in each colony shall be
assistant to the execution of this act, and shall receive the reports of
the protector, and such other accounts as he shall judge material,
relative thereto, and shall transmit the same annually to one of his
Majesty's principal secretaries of state.
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