Gouernour then of a Deputy afterward of the Assistants next of a Treasurer after that of the Auditors and lastly of the Secretary Book-keeper Husband and Beadle 20. At the choyce of each Officer the persons nominated to stand in Election shall withdraw themselues till the party chosen bee publikely so pronounced And generally no man shall bee present in the Court whilest himselfe or his matter passeth the iudgement of the Court. 21. In regard of the waighty businesse of this Company which is also like to increase no man shall be chosen Gouernour of the Company of the Summer-Ilands who at the time of his Election is Gouernour of any other Company except it seeme good for the behoofe of both Companies that the same man haue the gouernment both of this Company and of that for Virginia 22. It is for waighty reasons thought very expedient and so ordered that no man continue in the place of Gouernour Deputy or Treasurer of this Company aboue three yeeres at once 23. For the auoyding of diuers inconueniences It is thought fit and so ordered that all elections of Principall Officers in or for the Summer-Ilands as also of the Gouernour and Deputy here be performed by a ballating box as in some other Companies 24. Euery Officer as hee is chosen shall openly in Court take his Oath or if he bee absent at the next Court he commeth to 25. The Gouernour Deputy and Treasurer hauing no certaine allowance for their cares and labours the rewarding of these former Officers according to their deserts is referred to the pleasure of the Court wherein new Officers are chosen Gouernour 26. THe Gouernours duty is to keepe the ordinary Courts of the Summer-Ilands and vpon cause extraordinary to call Courts extraordinary And in all Courts and other meetings hee is to haue a casting voyce 27. He is to moderate the Courts in quality of a President and to cause grauity decency and good order to be obserued and for breach thereof after a graue admonition first giuen and preuailing to proceed to reformation by the iudgement of the Court. 28. He is to propound and put all things to the question which the Court requires the same not being contrary to his Maiesties Letters Patents or Instructions nor to the Standing Lawes and Orders of the Company vnder paine of being immediately put from his office if he refuse in which case the Deputy shall doe it vnder the like paine And if hee refuse then any of the assistants there present 29. The Gouernour is to haue care that the extraordinary Committies appoynted by the Courts to seuerall businesse doe prosecute the same and giue seasonable account of their doings to the Court 30. He is also to haue an especial care that no Grant or Patent doe passe from the Company but vpon examination thereof by a select Committy who are exactly to obserue the Orders made concerning them And to this end with diuers others hee is to haue a vigilant eye on the Companies Seale which is to be committed to his custody that they be not wronged by abusing thereof 31. The Gouernour vpon receit of publike Letters from or concerning the Summer-Ilands shall assemble at least foure of the principall Assistants to impart them to them and by their assent shall cause them to bee read in Court vnlesse there bee some cause of secresie in which case hee shall communicate them with the Assistants onely In like sort the publike Letters and instructions to bee sent to the Gouernour and people in the Summer-Ilands or otherwise concerning them hee shall cause to bee publikely read and approued by the Court or Assistants as the case shall require And neither hee nor any other shall of his owne head or authority write or send any directions swaruing from such as the Court or Assistants shall giue vpon paine to be suspended from the Court for euer 32. The Gouernour shall assemble the Principall Assistants whom the Court shall particularly assigne to assist him vpon all waighty occasions requiring serious deliberation and shall haue care with them that the Lords of his Maiesties Priuie Councell be acquainted with all matters of extraordinary and greatest importance concerning the State 33. He is to doe his best that fit men bee chosen to the place of Assistants and being chosen is to haue care that they take their Oathes 34. The Gouernour is to haue care also that the generall Assistants keepe their Courts with the Deputie vpon all occasions of businesse 35. The Gouernour at his pleasure shall sit in any Assembly either of the Assistants or other Committies ordinary or extraordinary vnlesse the matter happen to concerne himselfe particularly Deputy 36. FOr matter of the Courts in the Gouernours absence the Deputy shall performe his Office and in his presence be assisting to him 37. He shall ouersee the Secretary for entring the Orders of Court and shall giue instructions for the writing of Letters as he shall be directed and haue care that accordingly they be written 38. The Deputy shall also keep the Courts of Assistants vpon all occasions requisite and at his pleasure shall also sit in any Assembly of Committies ordinary or extraordinary vnlesse the matter concerne himselfe and in all these in the Gouernours absence he shall haue a casting voyce 39. He shall suffer no warrant to be made and signed for issuing out of money but in the open Court of Assistants after due examination of the Cause vnto all which warrants his owne hand shall bee first set and after it other foure hands or more of the Assistants And the Deputie and Assistants shall not intermeddle with Disbursements for any other charges then such as arise within the compasse of their owne yeere 40. When a Warrant is directed to the Treasurer to pay any grosse Summe to the Deputie to be issued out by him and the Assistants for the vse of the Company in that case it shall not be requisite that the Deputies hand be to the Warrant so it be to the receit 41. Generally the Deputy shall ouer-see all inferiour Officers that they performe their duties Assistants 42. THe Assistants being to bee foure and twenty and to be yerely chosen there shall be a yeerly alteration made of one fourth part at the least to the end many be trained vp in the busines to which end the six new Assistants shall be first chosen 43. The Assistants Office is together with the Deputy to performe the orders of Courts for setting out Ships and buying prouisions for the Summer-Ilands wherein especiall care is to be had that neither the husband nor any one man alone bee intrusted with the making of those prouisions but two at the least to be appoynted thereunto by the Deputy and Assistants in their Court who shall also bring in their bils and accounts to bee examined and approued by the Assistants The like care shall they haue at the returne of Ships from the Summer-Ilands of the Goods belonging to the
the Ilands both from forraine Inuasion and intestine Mutinies In which case hee hath authority to exercise Martiall Law according to the manner and forme limited by his Maiesties Letters Patents 133. It is also his duty to haue an eye vpon the Ministers as well that the people performe their duty toward them and vse them with all due respect and reuerence as also that they performe the duty of their place in duly obseruing the solemne Diuine seruice and training vp the People in the true feare of God and obseruance of his Commandements In assured allegiance also and duty to the King his Heires and Successors In obedience also to all other subordinate Gouernours and Gouernment placed ouer them by authority deriued from his Maiesty And lastly in a fraternall loue and vnity among themselues In all which the example of the Magistrates and Ministers will bee of more force then any other perswasion whatsoeuer 134 It is the Gouernors Office to haue care of the due administration of Iustice to all the People as well in cases Criminal as Ciuill wherin the equity of the Lawes of England forme of administration of Iustice here vsed is to bee followed as much as may be Neuerthelesse the Gouernour of himselfe alone shall not make any order in Causes litigious without both parties consent but shall heare and determine Causes with the Councels assistance and assent in such manner as shall bee hereafter set downe 135. In all Causes ciuill brought to the Gouernour and Councell at the first instance they may proceed to hearing and determining therof in their ordinary sittings But if it be brought to them by appeale from some other Inferiour Officers Or if appeale be made from themselues the Tryall thereof shall bee reserued to the next Generall Sessions 136. The Gouernour shall not proceed as of himselfe alone to the Corporall punishment of any man other then three daies imprisonment If the crime deserue higher punishment hee shall proceede by the aduice and assent of the Counsell Prouided alwaies that matters of Treason Murder and Felony also of Forgery Periury Conspiracy and such like be reserued to bee tryed at the next Generall Sessions according to the Lawes and formes of Triall vsed in this Realme 137. The Gouernour in the Summer-Ilands hath power granted by his Maiesty to minister a formall Oath to any person there whosoeuer for the examination testifying and cleering of the truth in any cause whatsoeuer as well concerning the Plantation as any other particular businesse there arising for the maintenance of Peace and Iustice amongst the Inhabitants Of which power hee shall make vse there in all such causes and to all such persons as the like is done by the Iudges and Iustices of this Realme 138. The Gouernour shall not suffer any man to depart from the Summer-Ilands against whom there is any cause or suit in Law depending vnlesse the Defendant shall first substitute an Atturney sufficient to answere and vndergoe the Suit in his place and also enter into bond with two sufficient Sureties to performe whatsoeuer Sentence shall passe against him And if the Gouernour and Councell see probable cause to conceiue that the Suit is set on foot vpon malice and to stop the Defendant from his intended iourney in that case the Plaintiffe shall likewise giue good security to pay to the Defendant double costs and damages if the Sentence passe not against him 139. The Gouernour is to hold two generall Sessions in euery yeere at times to be appoynted by the generall Assembly hereafter mentioned whereunto euery Tribe shall send sixe men chosen by themselues to serue for that Tribe and the common Land twelue and all other hauing businesse or summoned by the Gouernour and Councell may and shall repaire thither and make their appearance And no man shall depart till the Sessions be ended without leaue of the Gouernour 140. The Gouernour shall also in euery second yeere once hold a generall Assembly for the making of Lawes and Orders for the particular necessities and occasions of those Ilands and the Inhabitants thereof and for the ordering of other important businesse which Lawes and Orders shall no further forth be of force and validity if they receiue not confirmation afterward in a Quarter Court heere In this Assembly the Gouernour shall sit as President to moderate the Assembly and shall haue a Negatiue voyce The Councell shall sit next to him and each haue his seuerall voyce but if they all ioyne in one opinion that also shall haue the force of another Negatiue And lastly each Tribe shall by Election send out foure able persons to represent that Tribe and the Occupiers of common Land eight who shall haue likewise free voyces in that Assembly where all things shall bee established by plurality of voyces the foresaid Negatiues reserued 141. Lastly it is the Gouernours duty to ouersee all inferiour Officers that they performe their duties To which end he shall minister a formall Oath to all other Officers and inferiour Ministers in the said Ilands whatsoeuer for the iust true and faithfull discharge of their seuerall places duties and seruices 142. The Gouernour shall not impose any Fines or Amercements for his owne behoofe But all Fines Amercements Forfaitures and Confiscations shall accrew to the publike seruice of the Plantation or to such other vses as are before or shall be heereafter particularly expressed to be leuied and kept by the Sheriffe and to be expended or paid ouer by direction of the Gouernour and Councell 143. The Gouernour shall not lay any Taxes or Impositions vpon the Lands in the Summer-Ilands or vpon the People or Commodities otherwise then by the authority of the generall assembly to bee leuied and imployed as the said Assembly shall appoynt 144. The Gouernour shall not withdraw the Inhabitants from their priuate labours to any seruice of his owne vpon any colour whatsoeuer And in case the publike necessity require imployment of many hands before the holding of a generall Assembly to giue order for the same In that case the leuying of men shall be done by order of the Gouernour and whole Body of the Councell and that in such sort as to be least burthensome to the people and most free from partiality 145. The Gouernour shall not grant leaue to nor suffer the Tenant or seruant of any man to returne into England or otherwise to depart from the occupying of his Landlords or Masters Land before the time of his Couenant be fully expired except the Owner of the Land vnder his hand and Seale giue consent thereto 146. The Gouernour also in quality of Captaine Generall shall haue care that the people be trained vp to Military seruice and shall from time to time giue seasonable aduertizmēt for prouision of Shot Powder and other Ammunition to be made Hee shall also haue yeerely a generall Muster or view of Armes And shall yeerely returne to the Company a list of the names of all the trained Bands
together with a Certificate of all defects whatsoeuer 147. The Gouernour shall not forsake his charge nor depart out of the Summer-Ilands during the time of his Commission without especiall Licence of a Quarter Court heere vnder paine of being disfranchised for euer as an vnworthy person and further censured and proceeded against as by a generall Court shall be thought meet 148. If it happen the Gouernour of the Summer-Ilands to dye before the expiration of his Commission or arriuall of his Successor in that case the whole body of the Councell shall assemble together and chuse any of themselues to succeed in that place of Gouernment vnlesse or till such time as the Company take other order The like course shall be held for all other Principall Officers Sheriffe 149. THe Sheriffes Office shall be to see or cause the Iudgements of the Gouernour and Councell especially those at the generall Sessions to be put in due execution At which Sessions hee shall also impannell the Iuries with all indifferency 150. He shall also leuie or cause to be leuied all Fines Amercements and other forfaitures whatsoeuer and all Taxes and Impositions lawfully assessed And the same in quality of a Treasurer to the Colony shall keepe or conuert to the most profit for their vse and shall expend the same for no other then publike seruices and that by direction from the Gouernour and Councell and shall openly at euery Sessions deliuer vp in writing a true account of all such his receits and disbursements The allowance for his charges as well in executing the foresaid Iudgements as also in leuying the said Fines Amercements Forfaitures Taxes and Impositions shall be such as by the said generall Assembly shall be set downe 151. Hee shall also in quality of a Treasurer to the Company carefully collect and leuie all such profits as shall any way belong to the Company by reason of the Royalties and other Commodities to them reserued or by reason of any forfaitures due to the Company and shall cause them to bee yeerely transmitted to the Company together with his account for which hee shall receiue from them an extraordinary reward The like shall he do for the forfaitures due to the particular Owners of Lands 152. All Shot Powder Armour and other Ammunition whatsoeuer with all other publike prouisions sent from the Company to the Summer-Ilands shall be consigned to the custody and charge of the Sheriffe who shall not deliuer out the same or any part thereof but by order either from the Company here or from the Gouernour and Councel there whereof the said Sheriffe shall yeerely giue vp a true and perfect Account in writing as well to the Gouernour and Councell there as also to the Gouernour and Company here And if any Officer or other person by himselfe his Seruants or Agents shall sell away any of the publike prouision of Shot Powder Armes or other Ammunition to the wrong of the Company he shall make restitution to the double and being an Officer make forfait also of his place 153. Lastly the Sheriffes duty is once at least euery Quarter and oftener if there bee cause to visit the eight Tribes as also the publike Lands and all the seuerall parts both of the one and other and by diligent enquiry to see how as well these Orders of the Company and all other instructions as also the contracts and agreements betweene the seuerall members of the Company and their Tenants or seruants are obserued and with the aduice and assistance of the Ouerseers of the Tribes and of the chiefe Masters of Families shall proceed to the reforming and rectifying of what is found amisse according to such Orders as shall be established And if any man be found intractable or incorrigible by the Sheriffe hee shall be summoned by him to appeare before the Gouernour and Councell either at the generall Sessions or otherwise as the cause shall require Ministers THe Ministers being to be foure shall haue their Churches and Parishes thus placed and diuided The first Church shall be at S. Georges Towne and that Parish shall extend ouer all the publike Land saue that parcel which adioyneth to Harrington and Hamiltons Tribe on the Maine The second Church shall be on the said publike Land fast adioyning to Harrington Hamiltons Tribe and that Parish shall extend ouer that part of the publike Land being as is said before on the Maine as also ouer all Harrington and Hamiltons Tribe and Smiths Tribe The third Church shall bee in Pembrooke Tribe vpon the two shares there bought for Glebe Land to the Parsonage and that Parish shal extend ouer Pembroke Tribe Deuonshire Tribe and Pagets Tribe The fourth Church shall be on the Confines of Southampton Tribe and Sandys Tribe And this Parish shall extend ouer Southampton Tribe Warwicke Tribe and Sandys Tribe Neere adioyning to these Churches shall the Parsonage houses be buile And for the better yeerely maintenance of the Ministers ouer and aboue their houses Glebes and Tenants as aforesaid It is ordered that there shall bee apportioned to them out of the fruits of the earth and Cattell growing and renewing within their seuerall Parishes a certaine portion by way of charge vpon euery Share or Farme so as to make vp each Ministers Intertainement in that kind to the value of one hundred pounds a yere or thereabout Which value of one hundred pounds the yeere shall commence at the end of seuen yeeres after the making hereof And in the meane season the proportion for their yeerely maintenance besides the said Glebe Lands shall bee such as shall bee agreed vpon betweene the Company and the seuerall Ministers 155. Whereas the Owners and Occupyers of the Land haue of their owne voluntary gift offered the hundreth part yeerely of all their Tobacco towards the building of the said Churches and Parsonage houses it is ordered that the Ouerseers of euery Tribe as also of the common Land shall yeerely collect the same and deliuer it vpon account to the Sheriffe who by aduice and direction from the Gouernour and Councell shall take order for the erecting of the said Churches and houses and faithfully expend that which shall arise by the said Collections vpon the vses aforesaid and therof deliuer vp a yeerely account to the said Gouernour and Councell who shall transmit the same or a copy thereof to the Gouernour and Company here The works being finished the Gift also shall cease 156. The Ministers shall diligently apply their vocation and shew themselues Patternes of piety and vertue to the people They shall by helpe of the Ouerseers of the Tribes and other chiefe men in their Parishes indeuour to reforme all disorderly persons If any appeare incorrigible he shall be presented to the Gouernour and Councell who shall proceed to reformation by exemplary punishment according to the quality of the Offenders misdeserts 157. For the auoyding of Sects and Factions in Religion the Gouernour and Councell shall be carefull to
suppresse by course of authority all factious and seditious Preaching teaching and disputing as well in priuate as publike Secretary in the Summer-Jlands 158. THe Office of the Secretary is to keepe or cause to be kept a Register-Booke of the Decrees and Orders of the Councell there and to deliuer to the Sheriffe and other Officers to whom it shall appertaine a Copy of such of them as are to bee published or to be put in execution 159. It is also the Secretaries Office at the Generall Sessions to performe or cause to be performed the Office of Clarke of the Peace and Clarke of the Assises and to haue care that all Trials doe passe in due forme of Law and to keepe a Register Booke of all the verdicts and Iudgements and to deliuer to the Sheriffe a Copy vnder his hand of such of them as are to be put in execution 160. The Secretary shall also in all the generall Assemblies hold the place of Speaker and haue care that all things proceed and passe in due order and shall keepe a Register Booke of all the Acts there passed being first signed by the Gouernour and the Councell present 161. It is also ordered for the present time till a more conuenient course may be taken that the probate of Wills committing of Administrations and all other Acts incident to Testamentary causes shall be annexed to the Secretaries Office who shall likewise keepe an exact Register of them The Ministers also in their seuerall Parishes shall deliuer vnto the Secretary at euery generall Sessions a true note of all the Christenings Marriages and Burials which haue been in their Parishes from the generall Sessions last before which the Secretary shall likewise enter in a Booke and shall send a Copy thereof yeerely to the Company 162. The Secretary at the arriuall of euery Ship at the Summer-Ilands shall make a true list of the names of all the people thē arriuing with intent to continue and inhabite in the said Summer-Ilands of what sex age and Trade they are and vpon whose account they are sent And likewise at the departure of euery Ship shall make a like list of the names of all the Inhabitants that depart therein with their sex age and Trade and whose Tenants or seruants they haue formerly bin together with the cause of their departure Both which hee shall enter in a Booke there to be kept and a Copy thereof shall transmit to the Company by the seuerall Ships returning 163. Lastly it is the Secretaries duty to bee assisting to the Gouernour as well in dispatch of all Letters and other writings to the Company as also in publishing all Orders Commissions and other directions whatsoeuer which the Gouernour there shall receiue from the Gouernour and Company heere and to haue care with the Gouernour that the said Orders Commissions and directions be duly executed and that thereof a seasonable account be giuen to the Gouernour and Company heere 164. The Secretary for his seruice at the generall Sessions and at the generall Assemblies and for Testamentary causes shall haue such Fees as shall bee set downe by the generall Assembly Captaines of Forts 165. THe Captaines of the Forts ought to bee men discreet and commended for fidelity They are also to bee expert Gunners and trained vp in Military seruice Their duty is to haue care of the safety of the Forts committed to their seuerall charges and that they bee well furnished with all necessary prouisions There shall be also assigned by the Gouernour and Councell a competent number of the publike Tenants to the seruice of euery Fort to be trained vp to that Seruice and to be alwaies in readinesse when occasion shall require which Tenants in consideration of that attendance and seruice shall pay to the Company only a fourth part of their yeerely profits If any of the Captaines of the Forts die there his place shall be supplyed by appointment of the Gouernour and Councell there till such time as the Company here proceed to a new Election Ouerseers 166. OVt of the sixe persons sent yeerely from euery Tribe to serue for that Tribe at the generall Sessions to be held in the Spring or former part of the yeere the Gouernour and Councell shall chuse out two to haue the place of Ouerseers of that Tribe for the yeere ensuing And the Gouernour shall openly in the said generall Sessions minister vnto them a formall Oath for the due execution of their Office Prouided alwayes that at the humble petition of any Tribe the Gouernor and Councell if they so thinke good may continue either one or both of the Ouerseers of the former yeere for the yeere also ensuing Like course shall be held for the Ouerseers of the publike Land in all poynts Prouided alwayes and it is reserued to the power of the Company here to place such Ouerseers there from time to time as they shall please to elect and nominate in any of their Quarter Courts 167 The dutie of these Ouerseers is in their seuerall charges to diuide with an euen and iust hand between the owners and their Tenants all the Tobacco and other Commodities growing within their charge And to the end that they may better inform themselues what Crop is like to bee receiued out of the whole Tribe they shall about 14. daies before the vsuall time of gathering their Commodities generally suruay all the Ground so planted throughout and diligently obserue what quantity each Tenant or Seruant hath planted and the same register in a booke a Coppie whereof as likewise of the Diuident they shall send vnder their hands vnto the Company here When the diuision is made betweene the Owner of the Land and his Tenants or Seruants as iustly both for quantity and quality as they can They shall cast Lots vpon the Moities and take that part for the Owner which shall fall vnto him by Lot Which done they are likewise to haue faithfull care that the Owners part of such Goods as are fit or shall be directed to bee sent bee duely packt vp sealed and conueied to the Ship vnlesse the Owner vnder his hand and Seale giue other direction to bee sent to the Company here or as the Company shall direct Other Goods vnfit to be sent by Sea they shall dispose of as the Owners shall appoint Prouided alwaies that the Tobacco to bee diuided be cured and made vp in best manner before the said Diuision bee made And concerning the Tobacco and other Commodities of the growth of the Ouerseers themselues the same course shall be held as well for diuision thereof betweene them and their Landlords as also for disposing of the Landlords Moity in maner aforesaid Saue that the diuision of the Tobacco and Commodities of the one Ouerseer shal be performed and perfited by the other reciprocally 168. These Ouerseers also in their seuerall charges shall diligently enquire what Debts are owing by Tenants or Seruants to their Landlords To which end the Landlords
no other as shal be rated set downe by the General assembly from time to time Which Generall Assembly may also at their pleasure alter and reforme the said Officers and Offices with reference alwaies to the pleasure of the Companie here as is before expressed 178. In like sort the Inhabitants of euery particular Tribe as also of the publike Land being assembled by the Ouerseers respectiuely shall haue power to chuse such inferiour Officers for the behoofe and seruice of the said Tribes and publike Lands respectiuely as they shall finde necessary with allowance of such Fees from the said Inhabitants as they shall agree on Which shall be subiect to the Confirmation or reformation of the said Generall Assembly in manner before deliuered Commissioners 179. THe Gouernour and Company here by Order in a Quarter Court shall once in three yeeres if they thinke it so expedient send or appoint Commissioners for the said Summer-Ilands Men fearing God Men of grauity wisedome courage and integrity vncontrouled to examine the actions as well of the said Gouernour and Councell as of all other Officers or which in former times haue borne Office within the said Ilands Who shall also haue power according to the tenour of their Commission to proceed to the censuring and reforming of all Delinquents and the said Commissioners during the time of their Commission shall be exempted from any Iurisdiction ouer them in the said Ilands and of all their proceedings they shal from thence or at their returne make due Certificate to the Gouernour and Company here Inhabitants 180. THe Inhabitants of the Summer-Ilands shall duly frequent the seruice of God and thereat behaue themselues with all decency and reuerence vnder a penalty to bee set downe by their generall Assembly The Masters also of Families shall by aid and direction of their Minister see their children Seruants and other Cohabitants brought vp in the true knowledge and feare of God in the hatred also of vice and exercise of piety and vertue 181. They shall carry themselues loyally both in deeds and words towards the King his Heires and Successors They shall also behaue themselues reuerently and dutifully as well toward the Gouernour and Company here as also toward the Gouernour and Councell there vnder penalties to be set down by the generall Assembly If any man suppose himselfe to haue iust cause of grieuance he shall not by mutinous speech raise discontent also in other man but exhibite his Petition or Complaint to the Gouernour and Councell who shall transmit the same to the Gouernour and Company here from whom he shall receiue right and iustice without delay 182. The Tenants or Seruants shall not by vnreuerent speech or writing abuse their Landlords or Masters vnder a penalty to be inflicted vpon them by a great and generall Court heere But hee that hath cause of complaint shall exhibite his Petition in manner aforesaid 183. If any of the Company heere by any sinister meanes seeke to oppresse or wrong any of the Inhabitants there after complaint made and prooued either before the Gouernour and Company heere or the Gouernour or Councell there and certified hither as the case shal require besides the forfeiture aboue mentioned in the said Summer-Ilands wherof one third part shall be to the party grieued hee shall be also seuerely proceeded against in a Quarter Court here 184. If any man be a Common Swearer or profane abuser of the Name of God if after lawfull admonition by the Magistrate or Minister he doe not reforme himselfe besides other due punishment hee shall be declared infamous 185. If any man of vnquiet and contentious spirit be a common raiser of quarrels or brabbles amongst neighbours besides other penalties to be inflicted according to Law he shall be condemned by the Gouernour and Councell to be a person infamous 186. A person by lawfull Sentence condemned and declared to be infamous shall during the time hee so continueth be vncapable of any Office of dignity or command But in Offices ministeriall and of toyle only and labour he may and shall be imployed He shall not sit or stand in the Church with the rest of the Congregation but in a lower place apart by himselfe and in all other Assemblies he shall alwayes sit or stand in the meanest place His testimony shall not be receiued in any cause or businesse If he commit any crime or breake any Law or Order his punishment shall be double to that of another man in the like case If he presume to doe any thing contrary to this Order hee shall indure sixe dayes strait imprisonment for the same And euery person declared to be infamous shall so continue till hee publikely declare his repentance and reformation at a generall Sessions and thereupon be discharged from his infamy 187. If any man being of an idle and vaine disposition forsake his labour or other businesse and thereby giue example to other men to doe the like he shall be admonished thereof by the Sheriffe or Ouerseer If after admonition he persist in his idle course of life he shall be declared infamous But if the same person become also a wanderer or vagrant from the due place of his seruice hee shall for the first time be onely admonished but for euery offence after he shal by order of the Sheriffe or Ouerseers be scourged on the naked backe at the whipping post as a Rogue and the entertainers and relieuers of euery such wandring person or of any Fugitiue from the businesse of his lawfull Landlord or Master shall for euery time or day of such entertainment forfeit ten pounds of Tobacco or to the valew thereof whereof the one Moity shall be to the vse of the Landlord or Master so wronged and the other Moity shall be to the vse of the publike workes of the Plantation 188. If any man be a Drunkard or a common haunter of Tippling-houses if after admonition he doe not reforme himselfe besides other due penalties he shall be declared infamous And the Gouernour and Councell shall in their generall Sessions from time to time take especiall care for limiting the number and reforming the abuses of all Hosteries Tauernes or Drinking-houses of what kind soeuer 189. If any man be a common spender of his time in dicing and carding or other vaine or vnlawfull gaming or vse the same 〈◊〉 times vnseasonable hee shall be declared infamous 190. Whosoeuer shall in brauery of apparell exceed his degree if after admonition he doe not reforme the same he shall in all publike burthens beare the double to any other 191. The Sheriffe and Ouerseers of Tribes shall take diligent notice also of such persons as by their orderly and industrious course of life giue good example vnto those amongst whom they liue whereof and of their other good parts and abilities they shall giue information to the Gouernor and Councell from time to time who vpon that and such other information as they shall take shall