WHEREAS divers controversies have risen between masters and servants being brought into the collonie without indentures or covennants to testifie their agreements, whereby masters and servants have been often prejudiced, Be it therefore enacted and confirmed for prevention of future controversies of the like nature, That such persons as shall be
imported, haveing no indentures or convenant, either men or women, if they be above sixteen years old shall serve four yeers, If under fifteen to serve till hee or shee shall be one and twenty yeers of age, and the courts to be judges of their ages.