=43. South Carolina.--Prevention of runaways.=
=1683, Nov. 7.= An Act to prevent Runaways. Title only preserved. Table of contents.--_Statutes at Large of South Carolina, II._
=44. Virginia:--Repeal of law of 1663, September.=
=1684, April.= Act III. An act repealing the act concerning the persuit of runawayes. The law of September, 1663, has been found inconvenient in practice, it is therefore repealed.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, III. 12._
=45. East New Jersey:--Runaway servants. [§ 2.]=
=1686, April.= Chap. XI. An Act concerning Runaway Servants. "Whereas the securing of Servants that Runaway, or otherwise absent themselves from their Masters lawful Occasions, is found a material encouragement to such Persons as come into this country to settle Plantations and Populate the Province; for the better encouragement of such Persons, Be it therefore enacted by the Governor and Council and Deputies now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, that if any Servant or Servants, Prentices or Covenant Servants, Run away or absent him or herself unlawfully from their Masters or Mistress' Service, being taken up or secured, so that the master or mistress hath him or her again, for the better Encouragement of such Person or Persons so securing him or them, they shall have _Twenty Shillings_ paid him or them," etc.--_New Jersey Laws, 292._
=1686, October.= Act I. Slight change in making out the certificate for apprehension of runaway.--_Statutes at Large. Hening, Laws of Virginia, III. 29._
=47. South Carolina:--Inhibition of trade with runaways.=
=1691.= An act inhibiting the tradeing with Servants and Slaves. "_And it is alsoe enacted_ by the authority aforesaid, that if any servant or servants shall at any tyme or tymes hereafter absent or withdraw him or themselves from his, her, or their master or mistresses service, such servant or servants soe offending shall for every naturall day they shall soe absent themselves serve one whole weeke, and for every weeke, if they shall att any one tyme soe long absent themselves, one whole yeare to theire master or mistresse, over and above their contracted tyme of servitude."--¤_Statutes at Large of South Carolina, II. 53._