Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/89



Hereas, by an Act of Aembly, made at a Seion of Aembly, begun at the Capital in Williamburgh, the eleventh Day of November, in the fifth Year of his Majety’s Reign, entituled, : It is, amongt other Things enacted, that all and every Peron, or Perons, who, from and after the fourteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord one thouand even hundred and eighteen, and before the fourteenth Day of November, which hall be in the Year of our Lord one thouand even hundred and nineteen, hall take any Pyrate, or Pyrates, on the Sea or Land, or in Cae of Reitance, hall kill any uch Pyrate, or Pyrates, between the Degrees of thirty four, and thirty nine, of Northern Latitude, and within one hundred Leagues of the Continent of Virginia, or within the Provinces of Virginia, or North-Carolina, upon the Conviction, or making due Proof of the killing of all, and every uch Pyrate, and Pyrates, before the Governor and Council, hall be entitled to have, and receive out of the publick Money, in the Hands of the Treaurer of this Colony, the everal Rewards following; that is to ay, for Edward Teach, commonly call’d Captain Teach, or Black-Beard, one hundred Pounds, for every other Commander of a Pyrate Ship, Sloop, or Veel, forty Pounds; for every Lieutenant, Mater, or Quarter-Mater, Boatwain, or Carpenter, twenty Pounds; for every other inferior Officer, ixteen Pounds, and for every private Man taken on Board uch Ship, Sloop