8. It is also agreed that
the Commissioners for this Confederation hereafter at their meetings,
whether ordinary or extraordinary, as they may have commission or
opportunity, do endeavor to frame and establish agreements and orders
in general cases of a civil nature, wherein all the Plantations are
interested, for preserving of peace among themselves, for preventing
as much as may be all occasion of war or differences with others, as
about the free and speedy passage of justice in every Jurisdiction, to
all the Confederates equally as to their own, receiving those that
remove from one Plantation to another without due certificate, how all
the Jurisdictions may carry it towards the Indians, that they neither
grow insolent nor be injured without due satisfaction, lest war break
in upon the Confederates through such miscarriages. It is also agreed
that if any servant run away from his master into any other of these
confederated Jurisdictions, that in such case, upon the ceritficate of
one magistrate in the Jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled,
or upon other due proof; the said servant shall be delivered, either
to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate
or proof. And that upon the escape of any prisoner whatsoever, or
fugitive for any criminal cause, whether breaking prison, or getting
from the officer, or otherwise escaping, upon the certificate of two
magistrates of the Jurisdiction out of which the escape is made, that
he was a prisoner, or such an offender at the time of the escape, the
magistrates, or some of them of that Jurisdiction where for the
present the said prisoner or fugitive abideth, shall forthwith grant
such a warrant as the case will bear, for the apprehending of any such
person, and the delivery of him into the hands of the officer or other
person who pursues him. And if there be help required, for the safe
returning of any such offender, then it shall be granted to him that
craves the same, he paying the charges thereof.
