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A48880 The fundamental constitutions of Carolina; Constitution (1669) Locke, John, 1632-1704. 1670 (1670) Wing L2743A; ESTC R221365 16,616 28

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ever been made §. 80 Since multiplicity of Comments as well as of Laws have great inconveniences and serve onely to obscure and perplex All manner of Comments and Expositions on any part of these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS or any part of the Common or Statute Law of Carolina are absolutely Prohibited §. 81 There shall be a Registry in every Precinct wherein shall be Enrolled all Deeds Leases Iudgments Mortgages and other Conveyances which may concern any of the Land within the said Precinct and all such Conveyances not so Entred or Registred shall not be of force against any Person nor Party to the said Contract or Conveyance §. 82 No Man shall be Register of any Precinct who hath not at least three hundred Acres of Freehold within the said Precinct §. 83 The Freeholders of every Precinct shall nominate three Men out of which three the Chief Iustice's Court shall chuse and Commission one to be Register of the said Precinct whilst he shall well behave himself §. 84 There shall be a Registry in every Signiory Barony and Colony wherein shall be Recorded all the Births Marriages and Deaths that shall happen within the respective Signiories Baronies and Colonies §. 85 No Man shall be Register of a Colony that hath not above fifty Acres of Freehold within the said Colony §. 86 The time of every ones Age that is born in Carolina shall be reckoned from the Day that his Birth is Entred in the Registry and not before §. 87 No Marriage shall be lawful whatever Contract and Ceremony they have used till both the Parties mutually own it before the Register of the Place where they were Married and he Register it with the Names of the Father and Mother of each Party §. 88 No Man shall Administer to the Goods or have right to them or enter upon the Estate of any Person deceased till his Death be Registred in the respective Registry §. 89 He that doth not Enter in the respective Registry the Birth or Death of any Person that is born or dies in his House or Ground shall pay to the said Register one Shilling per Week for each such Neglect reckoning from the time of each Birth or Death respectively to the time of Registring it §. 90 In like manner the Births Marriages and Deaths of the Lords Proprietors Landgraves and Cassiques shall be Registred in the Chamberlain's Court. §. 91 There shall be in every Colony one Constable to be chosen annually by the Freeholders of the Colony His Estate shall be above a hundred Acres of Freehold within the said Colony and such subordinate Officers appointed for his Assistance as the County Court shall find requisite and shall be established by the said County Court The Election of the subordinate annual Officers shall be also in the Freeholdres of the Colony §. 92 All Towns Incorporate shall be Governed by a Mayor twelve Aldermen and twenty four of the Common-Council The said Common-Council shall be chosen by the present Housholders of the said Town the Aldermen shall be chosen out of the Common-Council and the Mayor out of the Aldermen by the Palatine's Court. §. 93 It being of great consequence to the Plantation that Port-Towns should be built and preserved Therefore whosoever shall lade or unlade any Commodity at any other Place but a Port-Town shall forfeit to the Lords Proprietors for each Tun so laden or unladen the Sum of ten Pounds Sterling except onely such Goods as the Palatine's Court shall Licence to be laden or unladen elsewhere §. 94 The first Port-Town upon every River shall be in a Colony and be a Port-Town for ever §. 95 No Man shall be permitted to be a Freeman of Carolina or to have any Estate or Habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a GOD and that GOD is publickly and solemnly to be Worshipped §. 96 As the Countrey comes to be sufficiently Planted and Distributed into fit Divisions it shall belong to the Parliament to take care for the building of Churches and the publick Maintenance of Divines to be employed in the Exercise of Religion according to the Church of England which being the onely true and Orthodox and the National Religion of all the King's Dominions is so also of Carolina and therefore it alone shall be allowed to receive publick Maintenance by Grant of Parliament §. 97 But since the Natives of that Place who will be concerned in our Plantation are utterly Strangers to Christianity whose Idolatry Ignorance or Mistake gives us no right to expel or use them ill and those who remove from other Parts to Plant there will unavoidably be of different Opinions concerning Matters of Religion the liberty whereof they will expect to have allowed them and it will not be reasonable for us on this account to keep them out that Civil Peace may be maintained amidst the diversity of Opinions and our Agreement and Compact with all Men may be duly and faithfully observed the violation whereof upon what pretence soever cannot be without great offence to Almighty God and great scandal to the true Religion which we profess and also that Iews Heathens and other Dissenters from the purity of Christian Religion may not be scared and kept at a distance from it but by having an opportunity of acquainting themselves with the truth and reasonableness of its Doctrines and the peaceableness and inoffensiveness of its Professors may by good usage and perswasion and all those convincing Methods of gentleness and meekness suitable to the Rules and Design of the Gospel be won over to embrace and unfeignedly receive the Truth Therefore any seven or more Persons agreeing in any Religion shall Constitute a Church or Prefession to which they shall give some Name to distinguish it from others §. 98 The Terms of Admittance and Communion with any Church or Profession shall be written in a Book and therein be Subscribed by all the Members of the said Church or Profession which Book shall be kept by the publick Register of the Precinct where they reside §. 99 The Time of every ones Subscription and Admittance shall be Dated in the said Book or religious Record §. 100 In the Terms of Communion of every Church or Profession these following shall be three without which no Agreement or Assembly of Men upon pretence of Religion shall be accounted a Church or Profession within these Rules I. That there is a GOD. II. That GOD is publickly to be Worshipped III. That it is lawful and the Duty of every Man being thereunto called by those that Govern to bear Witness to Truth and that every Church or Profession shall in their Terms of Communion set down the external Way whereby they witness a Truth as in the presence of GOD whether it be by laying Hands on or kissing the Bible as in the Church of England or by holding up the Hand or any other sensible way §. 101 No Person above seventeen Years of Age shall have any benefit or protection