38) Free blacks who harboured fugitive slaves would be beaten by the slave owner and fined 300 pounds of sugar per day of refuge given; other free people who harboured fugitive slaves would be fined 10 livres tournois per day (art. 39) If a master had falsely accused a slave of a crime and as a result, the slave had been put to death, the master would be fined (art. 40) Masters may chain and beat slaves but may not torture nor mutilate them (art.