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[503] Martin, The Public Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina, etc., edition of 1804, p. 135. If such an Indian should be killed, the captor was to secure £10 from the public treasury. This amount was probably less than the regular price of such slaves, for if the amount were equal to the full value, the captor would have been tempted to kill the captive, and thus avoid the trouble of keeping him. Bassett, Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina, p. 73, in Johns Hopkins University Studies, xiv.