Clause 16 defined an enslaved person absent from an owner or employer for forty-eight hours on working days, without a ticket or permit, as a runaway. The definition converted unlicensed mobility into a legal status subject to capture. It also shows that a pass regime structured movement, while escape and travel beyond it were ongoing possibilities. (Consolidated Slave Act, clause(s) 16.)
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Under clause 16, when could absence without leave make an enslaved person legally a runaway?
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The act set the threshold at forty-eight hours of working-day absence without a ticket or permit.
Clause 19 required Gazette advertisements about captured runaways.
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It ordered publication within six days, with monthly republication while the person remained jailed.