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 Governor of New England, required him to "pas a law for the retraining of inhuman everity which may be ued by ill maters or overeers towards the Chritian ervants or laves; wherein proviion is to be made that the wilful killing of Indians and Negroes be punihed with death, and a fitt penalty impoed for the maiming of them." N. Y. Col. Doc.,, 547. The reader will note the ditinction in thee intructions between the Chritian ervants or laves, and the Indians and Negroes. It points to a feature of lavery in Maachuetts, at that time, which we propoe to notice in another portion of thee notes.

The Law of 1698, Chapter 6, forbids trading or trucking with any "Indian, molato or negro ervant or lave, or other known diolute, lewd, and diorderly perons, of whom there is jut caue of upicion." Such perons were to be punihed by whipping for o trading with money or goods improperly obtained.

The Law of 1700, Chapter 13, was enacted to protect the Indians againt the exactions and oppreion which ome of the Englih exercied towards them "by drawing them to conent to covenant or bind themelves or children apprentices or ervants for an unreaonable term, on pretence of or to make atisfaction for ome mall debt contracted or damage done by them." Other imilar acts were afterwards paed in 1718 and 1726, the latter having a claue to protect them againt kidnapping.

In 1701, the Repreentatives of the town of Boton were "deired to promote the encouraging the bringing of white ervants, and to put a period to Negroes being laves." Drake's Boton, 525. M. H. S. Coll., .,