the Authority aforesaid That all Treasons Felonies Piracies Robberies Murthers or Confederacies committed or that hereafter shall be committed upon the Sea or in any Haven Creek or Bay shall be Enquired Tried Heard Determined and Judged within this Colony in such like form as if such Offence had been committed in and upon the Land and to that end and purpose Commissions shall be had under the great Seal of this Colony directed to the Judge or Judges of the Admiralty of this Colony for the time being and to such other substantial Persons as by His Majesties Governour or Commander in chief for the time being shall be named or Appointed which said Commissioners or such a Quorum of them as by such Commission shall be thereunto Authorized shall have full power to do all things in and about the Enquiry Hearing Determining Adjudging and Punishing of any of the Crimes and Offences aforesaid as any Commissioneâ—s to be appointed by Commission under the great Seal of England by vertue of a Statute made in the XXVIII Year of the Reign of King Henry the eighth are Impowred to Do and Execute within the Kingdome of England And that the said Offenders which are or shall be Apprehended in or brought Prisoners to this Colony shall be liable to such Order Process Judgments and Execation by vertue of such Commission to be grounded upon this Act as might be Awarded or Given against them if they were proceeded against within the Realm of England by virtue of any Commission grounded upon the said Statute And all Trials heretofore had against such Criminal or Criminals before any Judge or Judges by vertue of such Commission or Authority at any time heretofore granted and all Proceedings thereupon are hereby Ratified And Indemnification Confirmed and Adjudged lawful and all such Judges with all and every the inferiour Officers that have acted thereby are hereby Indemnified to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever And in case they or any of them shall at any time hereafter be Sued Vexed Molested or Troubled for any such their Proceedings aforesaid he or they so Sued Vexed or Molested shall Plead the General Issue and give the Act in Evidence Any Law Statute Custome or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons that shall any way knowingly Entertain Harbour Conceal Trade or Hold any Correspondence The Abettors of Privateers c. to be punished as accessaries by Letter or otherwise with any person or persons that shall be Deemed or Adjudged to be Privateers Pirates or other Offenders within the construction of this Act and that shall not readily endeavour to the best of his or their power to Apprehend or cause to be apprehended such Offender or Offenders shall be liable to be Prosecuted as Accessaries and Confederates and to suffer such pains and penalties as in such case by Law is provided And for the better and more effectual Execution of this Act What is required of Commission officers in pursuance of this act Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Commission Officers in their several Precincts within this Colony are hereby required and impowred upon his or their Knowledge or notice given that any Privateers Pirates or other Persons suspected to be upon any unlawful design are in any place within their respective Precincts to Raise and Levy such a number of well Armed Men Their power as he or they shall think needful for the seizing apprehending carrying to Goal all and every such person or persons and in case of any resistance or refusal to yield Obedience to His Majesties Authority it shall be lawful to kill or destroy such person or persons and all and every person or persons that shall oppose or resist by Striking or Firing upon any of the commanded parties shall be deemed taken and adjudged as Felons without benefit of the Clergy And every such Officer that shall omit or neglect his duty herein penalty of their neglect shall forfeit fifty pounds currant Money of this Colony for every such Offence to be recovered in any of His Majesties Courts of Record within this Colony by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed one moiety thereof to be to our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors for and towards the support of the Government of this Colony Penalty of the Souldiers not obeying their Officer sorders in execution of the premises and the contingent charges thereof and the other moiety to the Informer and all and every person or persons that upon Orders given him or them shall refuse to repair immediately with his or their Arms well fixed and Amunition to such place or places as shall be appointed by the said Officer and not readily obey his Commands in the Execution of the premises shall be liable to such Fine or corporal Punishment as by a Regimental Court Marshal shall be thought fit CHAP. V. Childrens Education 1. FOrasmuch as the good Education of Children and Youth is of singular use and benefit to any Common wealth and whereas many Parents and Masters either through an over-respect to their own Occasions and Business or not duely considering the good of their Children and Servants have too much neglected their Duties in their Education whilest they are young and capable of Learning Select mens care that all Children and Servants be brought to Record It is Ordered That the Select men of every Town shall have a vigilant Eye from time to time over their Brethren and Neighbours to see that all Parents and Masters do duely endeavour by themselves or others to teach their Children and Servants as they grow capable so much Learning as through the blessing of God they may attain at least to be able duely to read the Scripture and other profitable Books Printed in the English Tongue and the knowledge of the Capital Laws and in some competent measure the main Grounds and Principles of Christian Religion And Catichised necessary to Salvation by causing them to learn some orthodox Catechisme without book or otherwayes instructing them as they may be able to give a due answer to such plain and ordinary questions as may by them or others be propounded to them concerning the same And further that all Parents and Masters do breed and bring up their Children and Apprentices in some honest lawful Calling and Imployment that may be profitable for themselves and the Country And if after Warning and Admonition given by any of the Select Men unto such Parents or Masters they shall still remain negligent in their duty in any of the particulars aforementioned whereby Children or Servants may be in danger to grow Barbarous Rude and Stubborn and so prove Pests in stead of Blessings to the Country That then a Fine of ten shillings shall be Levyed on the Goods of such Negligent
Person having had the knowledge of the true God Idolatry openly and manifestly have or worship any other God but the Lord God he shall be put to Death Exod. 22.20 Deut. 13.6 10. 2. If any Person within this Jurisdiction professing the True God Blasphemy shall wittingly and willingly presume to Blaspheme the Holy Name of God the Father Son or Holy Ghost with direct express presumptious high handed Blasphemy either by wilful or obstinate denying of the True God or his Creation or Government of the World or shall curse God the Fâ—ther Son or Holy Ghost such Persons shall be put to Death Levit. 24.15 16. 3. Treason against the Person of our Soveraigne Lord the King the Realm and Common-wealth of England Treason shall be punisht by Death Conspiring against this Jurisdiction and His Majesties authority here established 4. That whosoever shall Conspire and Attempt any Invasion Insurrection or publick Rebellion against this Jurisdiction and His Majesties Authority here established or surprize any Town Plantation Fortification or Amunition therein provided for the safety thereof or shall treacherously and profideously attempt and endeavour the Alteration and Subversion of our Fundamental Frame and Constitution of this Government every such Person shall be put to Death Wilful Murther premeditate 5. If any Person shall commit wilful Murther by Killing any Man Woman or Child upon premidated Malice Hatred or Cruelty not in a way of necessity and just Defence nor by Causualty against his will he shall be put to Death Murther in suddain passion through guile or poy soning 6. If any Person slayeth another suddainly in anger and cruelty of passion he shall be put to Death 7. If any person slay another through Guile either by poysoning or other divelish practice he shall be put to Death 8. If any Christian so called be a Witch Witchcraft that is hath or consulteth with a Familiar Spirit he or they shall be put to Death 9. If any Person lyeth with a Beast Bestiality or Bruit Creature by carnal copulation they shall surely be put to Death and the Beast shall be slain and buried and not eaten 10. If any Man lyeth with Man-kind as he lyeth with a Woman Sodomy both of them hath committed abomination they both shall surely be put to Death unless one party were forced or were under fourteen years of Age and all other Sodomitical filthiness shall be severely punisht according to the nature of it False witness 11. If any Person rise up by false Witness wittingly and of purpose to take away a Mans Life he shall be put to Death 12. If any Man stealeth Mankind he shall be put to Death or otherwise grievously punished Man stealing 13. If any Child or Children above sixteen years old and of competent understanding shall curse or smite their natural Fathers or Mothers he or they shall be put to Death unless it can sufficiently be proved that the Parents have been very negligent in the Education of such Children Cursing or smiting father or mother or so provoked them by extream and cruel Correction that they have been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from Death or Maiming 14. If any Man shall Ravish a Maid or Woman committing carnal copulation with her by force that is above the Age of ten Years or if she were under the Age of ten Years though her will was gained by him he shall be punished with Death or some other grievous punishment 15. Whosoever shall willingly or on purpose burn any House Ship Barque Wilful burning of Houses Ships c. or any other Vessel of considerable value such person shall be put to Death or otherwise grievously punished as the Case and circumstances of of it may require An Act for the Restraining and Punishing Privateers and Pirates in pursuance of His Majesties Special Directions and Command by the General Court Summond for that End July 4th 1684. 15. Whereas nothing can more Contribute to His Sacred Majesties Honour Articles in all Treaties of peace agreed on by His Majesty to be inviolably kept by His Subjects then that such Articles are concluded and agreed on in all Treaties of Peace should by His Majesties Subjects according to their duty be most Inviolably preserved and kept in and over all His Majesties Dominions and Territories And whereas not only against such Treaties of Peace made by His Majesty with His Allies but also contrary to His Majesties Royal Proclamations Several of His Subjects have and do continually go off from this Colony into Forraigne Princes Services and Sail under their Commissions contrary to their Duty and good Allegiance and by fair means cannot be restrained from so doing Be it therefore Enacted by this General Court and Authority thereof and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that from and after Publication hereof it shall be Felony for any person which now doth or within four years last past heretofore hath Felony to serve in hostile manner any Forreign Prince c. against any in amity with His Majesty without Licence And to suffer pains of death or hereafter shall Inhabit or Belong to this Colony to serve in America in an Hostile manner under any forreign Prince State or Potentate or any imployed under any of them against any other Prince State or Potentate in amity with His Majesty without especial License for so doing under the Hand and Seal of the Governour or Commander in chief of this Colony for the time being And that all and every such Offender or Offenders contrary to the true intent of this Act being thereof duely convicted in any of His Majesties Courts of Judicature within this Colony to which Court Authority is hereby given to hear and determine the same as in other cases of Felony shall suffer pains of Death without benefit of the Clergy Provided nevertheless that this act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any Person or Persons unless returning within the time limited which now are or have been in the Service or Imployment of any forreign Prince State or Potentate whatsoever that shall return to this Colony and leave and desert such Service and Imployment before the tenth day of December next insuing rendring themselves to the Governour or Commander in chief for the time being and giving him such Security as he shall appoint for their future good behaviour and also that they shall not depart this Colony without the Governours leave And for the better and more speedy Execution of Justice upon such who having committed Treasons Piracies Felonies and other Offences upon the Sea shall be apprehended in or brought Prisoners to this Colony Treasons Spiracies Felonys c. though committed on the Sea if hither brought within teis Colony shall be proceeded against as if committed on the land by Commission to the Judges of the Admiralty others Their power Be it further Enacted by
the other half to the use of the Colony This Court taking into their serious consideration the great Damage that this Colony and our Neighbours is likely to sustain by the catching of Mackerel with Nets and Sanes at Cape Cod or elsewhere near any Shoar in this Colony to the great destruction of Fish and to the discouragement of divers Fishermen as is alledged The Court doth therefore Enact and be it hereby Enacted by the Authority thereof That no person or persons whatsoever after the Publication hereof shall catch or draw on shoar any Mackerel with Net or Nets None to draw ashore Mackrel with Nets Sane or Sanes in any part of this Colony And if any person or persons hereafter shall presume to catch any Mackerel by setting or shooting any Net or Sane such person so offending as aforesaid shall forfeit for his or their said offence all such Nets or Sanes as shall be improved and all such Mackerel as shall be caught by him or them and shall also forfeit every such Vessel and all such Vessels or Boats as shall be imployed therein whether Ketch Sloop or Boat as shall be imployed in taking or carrying away any such Fish if at any time the person so offending be taken within this Government or the value thereof one moiety to the Colony and the other moiety to the Informer that shall prosecute the same And for the better Execution of the said Law Power shall be given by some one or more of the Magistrates by Warrant to some fit man to act as a Water-Bayliff to make seizure of all such Forfeitures as aforesaid This Act to stand till the Court on some Trial thereof shall see cause otherwise to Order CHAP. X. High-Wayes 1. ORdered by this Court and the Authority thereof That where Countrey Roads be wanting through any Township of this Government or where there are Wayes laid out and returned to be Recorded High-ways in case to be laid out by indifferent men chose by the County Court that are not to the satisfaction of the County Court or where the two next Towns cannot agree about the same or where any Town or particular person complain to the County Court and have a pretence of great damage thereby in such case the County Court shall appoint a Committee of indifferent men or Jury out of such Town and the neighbour Towns who shall be upon Oath to view said Way and approve or disapprove thereof and lay out such Way in such places and in such manner as may be most beneficial to the Publick and least prejudicial to particular persons and make return of their doings to the County Court and the charge to be born as the County Court shall determine Town High-ways between Neighbourhood how to be laid out 2. Ordered That where there needs Town High-wayes from Neighbourhood to Neighbourhood or for the necessity of particular persons there shall be such wayes and passages laid out and ordered as a Jury impannel'd and sworn by a Magistrate shall see cause they attending the Law for their Rule provided that if any Town-way between Neighbourhood and Neighbourhood be laid out through any mans Land they shall have meet satisfaction But if the Parties cannot agree the same to be determined by the County Court Country roads to be forty foot wide 3. That common High-wayes or County Roads be forty foot wide or more in low wet and durty ground 4. Ordered That the Surveiors of High-wayes shall give three dayes warning to all persons concerned for themselves Surveiors of High-ways to give three days warning or their Teams when they are to work at the High-wayes as often as need shall require not exceeding six dayes in a year and every person orderly warned that neglects to appear or send a sufficient hand in his room shall pay two shillings six pence per day each day they neglect and each day for a Team five shillings for the Towns use to be levyed by Distress on the Goods of such as are Delinquents by a Warrant to the Constable from any of the Magistrates or Selectmen where there is no Magistrate near Penalty for non appearance to whom the Names of such Delinquents shall be returned by any of the Surveiors all allowed Inhabitants and persons Rateable to be warned and such Housholders that have not Teams and several in their Family capable to work though not Rateable How to work at High-ways such by approbation of the Selectmen may be warned to send two Ordered That the Surveior if he see cause shall hire either Man or Team as occasion requires for the said work and to be paid out of the fines aforesaid and that the Surveiors warn not any Man or Team twice to work on the High-wayes before they have first gone over all the Persons and Teams in the Town None to be warned to work twice till all have gone over once as aforesaid and that each Surveior give an account thereof to the Surveior which shall succeed him for the next Year who shall begin to warn where the other left off Penalty of Surveyors neglect 5. Ordered That every Surveior that neglects his duty in repairing the High-wayes shall forfeit five pounds to the Counties use Those warned when to appear and what time to work 6. Ordered That those warned to work on the High-wayes as aforesaid shall appear at the place appointed according to the Surveiors order with their Carts and themselves fitted with Tools and Instruments suitable to the work by the hour of nine in the Morning and work till four at Evening allowing the space of one hour at Noon for refreshment Surveiors to give an account to the Select men 7. Ordered That the Surveiors do at the end of their Year give an account of their actings and what Monies of the Towns may be in their hands unto the Selectmen of the Respective Towns or such other as the Town shall appoint for that Affair or be liable to a suit to be prosecuted against them by the Selectmen on the Towns Account 8. The Court taking into Consideration the Inconvenience likely to ensure Country-high wayes to be laid out by a Jury by Persons Erecting Fences Gates or Bars athwart County High-wayes to the Anoyance of Travellers Do therefore Enact and be it hereby Enacted That all necessary County High-wayes within this Colony shall between this time and the next October Court be laid out by a Jury where it is not already so done and an account thereof with the bounds presented to the Town Clerk on penalty at the charge of the Respective Towns through whose Lands on Townships such wayes may lead and that Account thereof with the several bounds of each such way in every of the said Towns shall be presented or brought to the Clerk of that Town on penalty of five pounds to be forfeited and paid by that Town that shall neglect the performance thereof And
double to any one of his Brethren And where there is but one Brother he shall be sole Heir to such Brother or other Ancestor and where there is no Brother the Sisters of the whole Blood shall Inherit alike lands distrain'd 5. It is Ordered That all Houses Lands and other Hereditaments that have been or shall be Levied or Distrained and delivered in Execution according to Law and Possession orderly given by any Marshal or Constable or any of their Deputies that Levied the same and is Returned and Recorded shall be and remain to the Party to whom delivered and his Heirs and Assignes as good an Estate as it was to the Person from whom Taken or Recovered 6. That where Lands Tenements Hereditaments fall or happen to be in Partnership either by Descent Gift Graunt Purchase or otherwise Lands in partnership if any Partner die before it be divided the Heirs or Assignes of the Deceased shall have his or their part with the Survivers as fully as any of the Survivers Any Custome to the contrary notwithstanding Liberty to Sue out a division 7. It is also Ordered That any Partner may Sue out a Division of any such Land as he or they may shew good reason for 8. It is Ordered that where no Heir or Owner of Houses Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels can be found upon the Decease of the late Proprietor a true Inventory of every such Estate in all the parts and parcels thereof shall with the first conveniency be duely taken a just Apprizement made upon Oath by fit men thereunto appointed by a Magistrate Escheaâ—â— or in his absence by the Select Men of the Town where such Estate is and the whole Estate shall be seized by the Colony Treasurer till the true Heir or Owner shall make due Claim thereunto unto whom the same shall be delivered upon just and reasonable terms Conveyances to be acknowledged before a Magistrate 9. Ordered c. That all Sales Exchanges Gifts Mortgages or other conveyancies of Houses Lands and other Hereditaments shall be acknowledged before some Magistrate or otherwise that the Witnesses two of them at least to the Deed be Sworn that the Party Graunter Seller Mortgager c. did Seal and Deliver the said Instrument as his Act and Deed before it be committed to publick Record Except that by special Order of Court the clerk be Ordered to Record any Instrument that is not so Proved or Acknowledged and that after the end of May next which shall be in the year 1686. No Sale Bargain Mortgage or Conveyance of any Houses Lands or other Hereditaments where the Seller Bargainer Mortgager c. Remains in possession shall be of any force against other persons Except the Granter Seller Mortgager c. his Heirs unless the same be acknowledged or otherwise proved as abovesaid and committed to Record 10. An Act made July 10. 1669. for quieting Mens Estates and avoiding Suits in Law touching Title of Lands in case time Suit may be Commenced for Lands detain'd where when barred It is Enacted by the Court and the Authority thereof That no person or persons having had for the space or term of ten years fully past and expired any Right or Title of Entry into or cause of Action for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever now detained from him or them shall thereinto Enter or Commence Suit for but within five years next after the end of this present Session of Court and at no time after And that no person or persons having had for the space or term of eighteen years fully past and expired any Right or Title of Entry into or cause of Action for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever now detained from him or them shall thereinto Enter or Commence Suits for but within two years after the end of this present Session of Court and at no time after And that no person or persons shall at any time hereafter make any Entry into or Commence Suit for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments but within fifteen years next after his or their Right Title or Cause of Action or Suit which shall hereafter first descend fall or accrue to the same otherwise such Title or Cause of Action shall be for ever after barred and the party or parties claiming and his and their Heirs utterly excluded from Entry into or Suit for the same Provided nevertheless That if any person or persons which hath or shall have such Right Title or cause of Action first be or shall be at the time of the said Right Title or Cause of Action descended according or fallen within the Age of twenty one years Feme Covert non compos mentis imprisoned or beyond the Seas then such person or persons his or their Heirs shall or may notwithstanding the said fifteen years expired bring his Action or make his Entry at any time within five years next after his or their full Age discoverture coming of sound mind enlargement out of Prison or coming into this Country take benefit of and so for the same and at no time after the said five years It is further Enacted by the Court c. That such person or persons as have had Right or Title or Entry into or cause of Action for any Lands Tenements Hereditaments hitherto detained from him or them for the space or Term of twenty years fully past and compleat and neglected hitherto to make his or their Entry or to commence Suit for the same shall be for ever Barred and Excluded and utterly disabled from such Entry or Suit to be made excepting as in the abovesaid Proviso This Act to stand at present suiting our Infant Estate till the Court see cause otherwise to Order mean while it shall be the concern of all for the future cause to obtain the best Evidence they can for the Title and Hold of their Lands A supplement to the Prefatory Declaration and Order in the Preface now Orders by His Majesties General Court held at Plimouth June 2d Anno Dom. 1685 As followeth viz. It is by this Court and the Authority thereof Ordered and Declared That all the Lands with their and every their Appurtenances belonging which have been formerly granted by the Court unto Townships or particular Persons according to the several Graunts or Bounds thereof shall be and remain to the several Townships and Grauntees their Heirs Successors and Assignes for ever in as free full ample and beneficial manner to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever as the Governour and Associates or General Court by vertue of their Letters Patents Declaratory from His Majesty or by any other ways and means whatsoever might or could Graunt And that the Governour for the time being Confirm all such former Graunts of Lands whether Graunted unto Townships or particular Persons which desire the same under the Seal of the Government not yet affixed thereunto And that the Court of Assistants be a Committee from
and if in the Rescue any Bodily Harms be done to any Person or otherwise they shall have Remedy against the Resouers and if either be done by any not of Ability to answer the Damage and Forfeit aforesaid they shall he Whipt by Warrant from any Assistant before whom the Offender is Convicted in the Town where the Offence is committed not exceeding fifteen stripes for the meer Rescue or Pound Breach and for all Damages to the Parties they shall be satisfied by the Offender in Service and if it appear there were any procurement of the Owners of the Cattle or that they were Abettors they shall all pay Forfeitures and Damages as if themselves had done it one fourth port of all fines for the Breach of this Order shall be to him that prosecutes the same to effect Provided that the Complaint be Prosecuted within six Months otherwise they shall not be heard Sabbath Prophaning of the Sabbath 1. THis Court taking Notice of great abuse and many misdemeanours committed by divers Persons many wayes prophaning the Christian Sabbath or Lords Day to the great Dishonour of God Reproach of Religion Grief of the Spirits of Gods People Do therefore Order and Enact That whosoever shall Prophane the Lords Day by unnecessary servile work unnecessary travilling by Land or passing by Water by bearing Burthens carrying of Packs or by Buying or Selling or by Sports or Recreation shall for the first Offence pay ten shillings fine to the Town or be committed to Prison or safe custody till the next Day and then sit in the Stocks two hours and for the second Offence shall pay twenty shillings sine to the County or be Whipt and so from time to time as often as they shall be Convicted of the like Transgression afterwards To be found Sporting or drinking on Saturday or Sabbath day nights after sun set 2. It is Ordered That if any Person henceforth either on the Saturday Evening or on the Lord's Day Evening after the Sun is Set shall be found sporting in the Streets or Fields of any Town in this Jurisdiction drinking or being in any publick House of Entertainment unless Strangers or Sojourners in their Lodgings or uncivily walking and is duly Convict such Persons so Offending shall for every Transgression pay five shillings sine to the Town or sit in the Stocks not exceeding two hours 3. It is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That in no case shall any Person Travail further on a Sabbath Day than from the place where he lay the Night before to the next Town on his way How far in what case to travel on the Sabbath nor shall he have liberty unless it be where there is no allowed Meeting in said Town Bona fide to go to the Meeting that is at the next Town and so order is as to be there before the beginning of the Morning Exercise and if any person shall presume to Travail on the Sabbath from the place he took up his Lodging on the Saturday Night unless as aforesaid or shall pass through the next Town before the Sabbath be ended he shall be proceeded with for Breach of Sabbath as is by Law provided unless it appear it hath been in case of Life and Death or that he hath a Licence from some Magistrate or one of the Select-men of the Town and it shall be lawful for the Constable or any other person to stop and bring before Authority any person suspected for the Breach of this Law and if any person hath obtained a Licence to Travail by a false pretence he shall any time in a twelve Month be liable to be apprehended and punisht for his Breach of Sabbath and ten shillings besides as a fine to the Town Ordered That in Towns Villages or other Places if any Person or Persons shall be found Walking or Riding about the Town or Visiting of the Neighbours or upon any other occasion from their own Families or place of abode on the Sabbath Day unless it appear it was upon account of some Act of Piety Mercy or Necessity such persons so offending shall be proceeded with as Sabbath-Breakers Schooles 1. ORdered by this Court and the Authority thereof That every County Town shall have and maintain a Latine School Latine School its incouragement which if they do and the Master judged by the major part of the Ministers of the County a Person capable to bring up Youth fit for the Colledge then such Town for their encouragement shall have one third part Annually of the Mony Raised on the account of the Cape Fishing and if the County Town refuse or neglect the same then such other Town that hath such a School shall have said Money and if more than one such in the County where the County Town neglects then said Money to be divided between them And where there is no such School in the County then the Money to be for the Colonies use 2. Ordered That in any County Town where such Scool-Master is provided whether by the major part of the Town or upon their neglect by a minor part Maintenance of Schools how to be raised with the approbation of two Magistrates such Town shall pay twelve pounds per annum to be raised as other Town Rates annually for such School-Master and such as have the immediate benefit by sending their Children to pay three pence a Week for Writing and Reading and six pence a Week for a Schollar after he comes to his Grammar and every such School-Master shall be capable to teach to Write and Cypher and shall receive Children after they are fit to begin in their Psalter And any that send their Children from any other Town in the County not to pay for their Schooling Swine WHereas Complaint is made of much Damage done by Swine Rooting up Meadows and Inclosures For the Prevention whereof Swine to be Ringed It is Ordered and Enacted That on notice given to the Owners of such Swine from the party damnified said Owners shall forth with Ring or cause to be sufficiently Ringed all such Swine on penalty of one shilling to be paid for every such Swine that shall be un Kinged after such warning given by the wronged party and as often as the Owners of such Swine shall be warned to Ring them The said Penalty to be to such as receive the damage or prosecute the same Town Affairs Town to make Orders 1. IT is Enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof that every Township in this Government shall have and hereby have liberty and power to meet together and make such Town-Orders as they shall think needful for the prudential affairs of the Town and Orders made by the major part present that may lawfully vote the Meeting being orderly warned shall be binding to the Town and every Town hath liberty and power to lay penalty on any Inhabitant of their Town for non-observance of any one Town Order not