An Act to Restrain Tavern-Keepers and Others from Selling Strong Liquors to Servants, Negroes and Mulatto Salves, ch. 12, § 4, 1752 N.J. Laws 443, 444 (William Bradford).
“4. AND BE IT FURTHER ANACTED, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Negro or Mulatto Slave or Slaves, shall be seen or found from his or their Masters House, after the Hour of Nine at Night, except on their Masters or Mistresses particular Business, or shall be seen to hunt, or carrying a Gun on the Lord’s Day; the Constable or Constables of such Town or Precinct, on Information or Knowledge thereof, shall and are hereby required and directed, to apprehend and carry such Negro and Mulatto Slaves before the next Justice of the Peace, who shall order such Negro or Mulatto Slave or Slaves, if found Guilty, to be whipped as by the preceding Clause of this Act is directed. PROVIDED ALWAYS, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed or taken, to prevent any Negro or Mulatto Slave from going to Church or Meeting, and attending on Divine Service or from Burying their Dead, with their Masters or Mistresses Consent.”
Samuel Nevill, ed., The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government in the Second Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, to this Present Time, Being the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Second; Collected and Published by Order of the General Assembly of the Said Province; With Proper Tables; and an Alphabetical Index Containing All the Principal Matters in the Body of the Book (s.l.: William Bradford, 1752), 444. Chapter 112—An Act to Restrain Tavern-Keepers and Others from Selling Strong Liquors to Servants, Negroes and Mulatto Salves and to Prevent Negroes and Mulatto Slaves from Meeting in Large Companies, from Running About at Nights, and from Hunting or Carrying a Gun on the Lord’s Day, § 4.