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
or common Road shall forfeit five shillings or sit in the Stocks an hour 22. Whereas divers unruly Persons Servants and others in several places of this Colony meet together to walk about in the Night to Drink Revel or Pilfer the same tending to the corrupting and debauching of the Youth and many offend and prejudice the peaceable Inhabitants of the several Towns for prevention whereof of night-walkers It is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof that all Persons walking in the Fields or Streets after nine or ten a clock at Night unless known peaceable and orderly Inhabitants shall be liable to be examined by the Select men Constable or Watch of the Town or if complained on by any other Person of the Town and if they cannot give a satisfactory reason for their so doing he or they shall be had before some Magistrate or other Person Authorized who upon the hearing of the Case it appear they have been Rude or unseasonably Drinking Revelling Gaming Sporting or any wayes disturbing or if it be Servants or Children and it be without their Parents or Masters leave they shall for the first Offence be Admonished or pay five shillings to the County or sit in the Stocks an hour and if Transgress a second time to pay ten shiliings or be whipt with ten Lashes and so from time to time as often as they Transgress 23. Ordered c. If any person Summoned to Answer any Presentment or for any Fault or Misdemeanour de not appear at the time appointed of non-appear ance on Summons to answ any presentment c. he or they shall be proceeded against for Contempt except it appear that they have been prevented by the hand of God 24. It is further Ordered That in case of any Misdemeanour that by Law there is not particular provision made for or that the penalty is not limited or expressed the person being convict thereof shall be liable to be punished by the Magistrate or other person Authorized before whom the Complaint is made by Fine according to his discretion Of misdemenors where no particular Law or Penalty limited not for one offence exceeding ten shillings or sitting in the Stocks not exceeding two hours And if such offence by him or them that have the cognizance thereof shall be thought to deserve a greater Fine or Punishment then the party complained of shall be bound over to Answer the same at the next County Court and be bound with Surety or Sureties for his or their appearance to Answer the same and for their good Behaviour in the mean time and shall be liable being convict to such reasonable Fine or Punishment as the County Court shall see meet according to Crime and Circumstances thereof not exceeding the Fine of five pounds for one offence or punishment by Whipping CHAP VIII Deaths Untimely Death untimly to have a Coroners quest before burial IT is Ordered by the Court and the Authority thereof That whensoever any Person shall come to an untimely or unnatural Death where no Magistrate is near the Constable of the Town shall forthwith Summons a Jury of twelve discreet men to enquire of the cause and manner of his Death who shall present a true Verdict thereof to some of the Assistants or to the County Court upon Oath and all persons are required to give notice of such untimely Death unto a Magistrate if any near or otherwise to the Constable neither shall any such person be buried before a Jury of Coroners Inquest have enquired into the cause of the said Death And if any shall presume to bury any such person before Information given and enquiry made as before they shall pay five pounds fine to the County and be rendred as suspitious of being principals or accessaries in the Death of such person Also Ordered That the return of said Jury shall be Recorded amongst the Records of the County Court and the charge to be paid out of the Estate of the person if any be Dower THat there may be competent Provision made for the certain Maintenance of Wives after the Discease of their Husbands who died Intestate wives to enjoy a third part of their deceased husbands lands It is Ordered and Enacted by this Court and the Authority thereof That every Married Woman who hath not demerited the contrary by her wilful Absence or Departure from her Husband or other notorious Fact without reconciliation to him in his life time or hath not by former Contract with her consent been Estated into some House Lands or Tenements for term of her life shall immediately after the death of her Husband according to the common Law of England for the sustenance of her self the nurture and education of her Children have Right and Interest by way of Dower in and to one third part of all such Houses and Lands as her Husband was at any time seized of during the coverture other then what Lands shee freely resigned up her Interest in to be setout to them by mets and bounds but shall not make strip or wast c. and acknowledged the same before a Magistrate To Have and to Hold unto the said Wife in severalty by Meets and Bounds for and during only the term of her life whether she had issue by her Husband or no said third part to be set out to her by persons appointed thereunto by the County Court if the persons concerned agree not Provided alwayes such Widow endowed as abovesaid shall not commit or suffer any strip or wast Debts paid one third part her personal estate but shall maintain all such Houses Fences and Inclosures as shall be assigned to her for her Dower and shall leave the same in good and sufficient Reparation in all respects the other two thirds to be disposed among the Children as per Law is provided It is also Ordered c. That all just Debts being first paid the Widow shall have one third part of her late Husbands personal Estate to be at her own absolute dispose and the other two thirds to be disposed amongst the Children as the Law is provided And where there are no Children left of the Deceased Intestate Husband there the Widow shall have the one half of the personal Estate unless the Court see just reason and cause to order it otherwise Duers no conveyance good obtained by illegal violenc IT is Enacted by this Court That no Conveyance Deeds or Promise shall be valid which hath been gotten by illegal Violence Imprisonment Threats or forceable Compulsions CHAP. IX Faires Two Fairs Annuality at Bristol IT is Ordered that there may be two Faires Annually kept at Bristol one on the third Wednesday and Thursday in May and the other the third Wednesday and Thursday in November Fences 1. ORdered That all Fences be four foot high or be otherwayes sufficient in the Judgment of the Fence viewers or for defect such Person to bear his own Damage unless the
Ordain and Constitute that no Act Imposition Law or Ordinance be Made or Imposed upon us at present or to come but such as shall be Enacted by consent of the body of Freemen or Associates or their Representatives legally assembled which is according to the free Liberties of the free born People of England Annually chosen by the free men 2. And for the well Governing this Colony It is also Resolved and Ordered that there be a free Electron annually of Governour Deputy Governour and Assistants by the Vote of the Freemen of this Corporation Justice to be equally and speedily administred 3. It is also Enacted that Justice and Right be equally and impartially Administred unto all not sold denied or causelesly deferred unto any None to suffer but according to Law and by due course process of Law 4. It is also Enacted that no person in this Government shall suffer or be indamaged in respect of Life Limb Liberty Good Name or Estate under colour of Law or countenance of Authority but by Virtue or Equity of some express Law of the General Court of this Colony or the good and equitable Laws of our Nation suitable for us in matters which are of a civil nature as by the Court here hath been accustomed wherein we have no particular Law of our own And that none shall suffer as aforesaid without being brought to answer by due course and process of Law 5. And that all Cases whither Capital Criminal or between man and man All Trials to be by Jury be Tried by a Jury of twelve good and lawful men according to the Commendable custome of England except where some express Law doth referre it to the judgment of some other Judg or Inferiour Court where Jury is not in which Case also any party agrieved may Appeal and have Trial by a Jury with liberty to challenge any of the Jury And it shall be in the liberty of any person that is to be tried by a Jury to challenge any of the Jurors and if the challenge be found just and reasonable by the Bench it shall be allowed and others without just exception shall be Impannelld in their room And if it be in case of Life and Death the Prisoner shall have liberty according to the Law of England to except against twenty of the Jury without giving any reason for the same what testimony required in cases 6. That no Person shall be Cast Condemned or Sentenced in any Case Capital Civil or Criminal without the testimony of two sufficient Witnesses or other sufficient Evidence or Circumstances equivolent thereunto unless in any particuler Case the Law hath otherwayes provided 7. And it is Enacted Being the Priviledge of our Charter That all Persons of the Age of twenty one Years Power to make Wills of right understanding and memory whether Excomunicated Condemned or other having any Estate properly theirs to dispose of shall have Power and Liberty to make their reasonable Wills and Testaments and other lawful Alienations of their Lands and Estates be it only here excepted That such as are sentenced for Treason against the King's Majesty An Exception or Realm of England or other Capital crimes shall forfeit to the King or Colony for the carrying on the Charge of Government their personal Estate Their Lands and real Estate being still at their disposal 8. That whereas the great and known end of the first Comers in the year of our Lord The great end of our coming into this Wilderness was Liberty to enjoy the pure worship of God without offence to others 1620. leaving their dear Native Country and all that was dear to them there transporting of themselves over the vast Ocean into this remote wast Wilderness and therein willingly conflicting with Dangers Losses Hardships and Distresses sore and not a few Wars that without offence they under the protection of their Native Prince together with the enlargement of his Majesties Dominion might with the liberty of a good Conscience enjoy the pure Scriptural worship of God without the mixture of humane inventions and impositions and that their Children after them might walk in the Holy wayes of the Lord And for which end they obtained leave from King James of happy Memory and His Honourable Council with farther Graunts from His Gracious Majesty Charles the 1. and His Honourable Council by Letters Patents for sundry Tracts of Land with many Priviledges therein contained for their better Encouragement to proceed on in so Pious a Work which may especially tend to the propagation of Religion c. as by Letters Patents more at large appeareth with further assurance also of the continuance of our Liberties and Priviledges both Civil and Religious under the Royal hand and Seal of our Soveraign Lord King Charles the II. And whereas by the good hand of our God upon us many others since the first comers are for the same end come unto us and sundry others rise up amongst us desirous with all good Conscience to walk in the Faith and Order of the Gospel whereby there are many Churches gathered amongst us walking according thereunto And whereas by the Grace of God we have now had above sixty Years experience of the good consistancy of these Churches with Loyalty to our Prince civil Peace and Order and also with spiritual Edification together with the welfare and tranquility of the Government It is therefore for the honour of God and the propagation of Religion and the continued welfare of this Colony The Churches of Christ to be protected Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That the said Churches already Gathered or that shall be orderly Gathered may and shall from time to time by this Government be Protected and Incouraged in their peaceable and orderly walking and the faithful able And the Ministers of the Gospel to be provided for orthodox Teaching Ministry thereof duely incouraged and provided for together with such other orthodox able Dispensers of the Gospel which shall or may be placed in any Township in this Government where there is or may be defect of Church Order All the foregoing Fundamentals inviolably to be preserved 9. And finally It is Ordered and Declared by this Court and the Authority thereof that all these aforegoing Orders and Constitutions are so Fundamentally Essential to the just Rights Liberties Common Good and Special End of this Colony as that they shall and ought to be inviolably preserved CHAP. II. Actions 1. IT is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That all Actâ—ons about Title of Land shall be first Tried in the County where the Lands lieth Title of Land to be tried in the County where it lieth other Trials where one of the parties dwell Trials before a Magistrate and all other Actions Tryable at a County Court shall be Tried at any of the Counties where either Plaintiff or Defendant dwelleth or resideth as the Plaintiff pleaseth
same which having done and no Satisfaction made Satisfaction first to be demanded by the Officer before destraint be made he shall then Levy his Execution or make his destraint upon goods lyable thereunto by Law together with all allowed Fees and necessary Charges put to in Levying and Transporting the Goods or Chattels to the Treasurer or party concerned who is to receive the same And in case there be not sufficient Estate Goods or Chattels found or tendred to satisfie such Execution and Warrant Levy to be made upon House or land if other estate be not found it shall be lawful for the Officer to Levy the same upon House or Land if owned by or shewed to be the Estate of him against whom the Warrant or Execution is granted And in no case shall the Officer be put to seek his Goods or Chattels further than his House or place of usual abode But if he refuse to discover his Goods or Lands to a sufficient value the Officer may then Levy his Execution or Warrant on his Body who shall be kept in Prison till that Satisfaction be made at his own charge if he have wherewith otherwise to be kept at the charge of the Creditor The Officer in no case to be put to seek for estate further then the parties usual place of abode Ordered That it shall not be lawful for any Officer to Levy or Destrain the Beast of the draught unless for damage Feizant nor any Mans necessary Bedding Apparrel Tools Arms or such Implements as serve for his necessary use without express Order from the Court or some one Magistrate Such lyable to fine or other punishment who expose anothers goods to destraine in stead of his own Ordered That if any Person shall presume to expose and shew an Estate to satisfie an Execution or any Warrant for Distress that at the time thereof was not his own he shall be liable to a fine or other punishment as the Court shall see cause and the Party to take out a new Execution for the Sum or so much as he occasioned the former Execution to be wrongfully laid on Vide more Title Constables Mills and Millers how much toll Millers may take ORdered That no Miller shall take above a sixteenth part of the Indian Corn he Grinds for Toll nor of any other Grain unless where the Towns make other agreement with their Miller They are to have weights scales Ordered That Every Miller shall have alwayes ready in his Mill Weights and Scales provided at his own charge to weigh Corn to and from the Mill of it be desired Two Toll-dishes sealed Ordered That every Miller in this Government shall keep in his Mill two Toll-dishes so made and Sealed that one will hold a just Pottle upheaped and the other a Quart up heaped and shall pay ten shillings a Month for what time they use unsealed Toll dishes if complained of Measures WHereas there is great Inconvenience by Reason of the Measures in this Colony differing from the Measure of other Colonies A Coopers Standard to be procured other Measurs that are allowed to be made by it It is Ordered That the Country Treasurer at or before the first of September next procure a Copper Standard viz. half Bushel half Peck and Quarter that be of the size of the Copper Standards of the Massachusets Colony had lately from London and that every Town have a Standard made by the same at or before the tenth of November next to be sealed by the Treasurer on penalty of the forfeiture of forty shillings to the County for the Town that neglects and the like sum every three Months they are without and the Town Clerk to seal Measures in the several Townships and have six pence for each Measure he seals and it shall not be lawful to use any other but such Measure so sealed after said time The Seal to be the Letter P. Meeting-Houses Meeting-houses to be Erected in every Town IT is Enacted by the Court That there be a publick House Erected in every Town of this Government for the Town comfortably to meet in to Worship God and in case any Town shall Aparently neglect or refuse to Build the said House it shall be in the power of the Governour and Magistrates or County Courts to Appoint and Authorize a Person or Persons to Build the said House acording to the Ability and Necessity of the People and the Charge thereof to be defrayed by all the Inhabitants and Proprietors of the Town Ministers Maintainance Ministers maintainance how to be raised IT being the great Duty of this Court and having been the Pains Care and true Intent of former Courts in the granting of the several Plantations and Townships in this Colony to provide for the better carrying on the publick Worship of God that are Able Godly Teaching Miinister or Preacher of the Gospel should be obtained and duly encouraged and maintained by all the People of such Place or Township and for that end have granted to them such Accommodations and proportions of Lands as they might be Comfortably enabled to give due Encouragement to such Preacher of the Word of God amongst them in so good and necessary a Work for the Glory of God and the good of Souls It is therefore Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof That in whatsoever Place or Township there shall be an Able Godly Teaching Minister or Ministers Preacher or Preachers of the Word of God who are approved by this Government there shall a Rate be made on all the Rateable Inhabitants of such place with the Country Rates by the Raters chosen as per Law is provided for the raising of such sum or sums as may be competent and honourable according to the Ability of such Place or Township for his or their comfortable Attendance on his Work as shall be agreed by the people of such place or by the Court of Assistants County Court or any three Magistrates as there shall be occasion or need requiring and to be paid in no worse specia than the Magistrates Sallery is to be paid in and at such seasons and to be gathered by the respective Constables of such Places or Townships and delivered in free of charge to such Minister or Ministers or such other person or persons as by the People of said place or by the Court Countrey or County Treasurer shall be appointed for the use of said Minister or Ministers on pain as per Law is provided in other cases for defect of Raters Constables or others concerned in the premises unless there be other care taken to the satisfaction of the Minister and the Inhabitants of such Towns How the Inhabitants shall be assisted in getting and maintaining an able Minister And it is further Ordered That in every place where there is a Village or Township settled or begun to be peopled though not filled with Inhabitants and they or some of
having Estate Real or Personal being of competent age understanding and memory Wills to be witnessed may by Will dispose thereof as he or they see cause It is therefore Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof that all such Disposals and Testaments of Lands and Hereditaments in Writing be Sealed by the Testator or his Order in his presence before two or three substantial Witnesses that may be able to testifie that it was his Will and that he was when he so Signed Sealed or Declared it in such capacity as is above expressed and proved 〈◊〉 Court 2. Ordered That such Wills and Testaments be Exhibited to be proved by the Executor or Executors at the next County Court after the Death of the Testator if it may be An◠Inventory to be taken with the Will Recorded and that a true Inventory of the Estate duely valued be presented to be Sworn to and left to be Recorded with the Will and the Probate shall not be taken until such Inventory is presented or sufficient Bond given for the speedy performance of the same And forasmuch as some persons may be suddenly surprized that they may not have opportunity to make a written Will 3. It is Ordered by this Court That if any person do make a Will Non-cupative or a verbal Disposure of his Goods and Chattels it be before two or three good substantial Witnesses that are neither Heirs nor Legatees and they shall within three dayes commit it to Writing Wills noncupative and make Oath to it at the next County Court provided such Disposure were in his last Sickness or not above six Moneths before his Death it shall be accounted good in Law but such Will shall not be approved of or allowed until fourteen dayes after the death of the party and notice given to the Widow and next of Kin that they may contest the same if they see cause Executors to present the Will to probate 4. Ordered That if any Executor shall refuse or neglect to present the Will of any Deceased in order to a Probate more than one Moneth after the County Court that happens next after the Decease of any such person and that so refuseth or neglecteth shall pay five pounds fine to the County and so five pounds for every Moneth he shall neglect the same afterwards What in case Executors refuse their Executorship 5. Ordered That if any person shall renounce his or their Executorship it shall be in open Court or appear to the Court by sufficient Testimony or before two Magistrates the Clerk being present to Record the same in such case the Court or said two Magistrates may grant Administration to the Widow or the Widow and some other of the Kindred if the Widow refuse to some of the next Relations the desire the same if such refuse then to be granted to some one or more of the chiefest Creditors But if they do not desire the same then to be granted to such as the Court or two Magistrates shall see cause and said Writing made out to be the mind of the Testator shall be the Rule for their Administration if capable thereof In what case Executors or others Administring shal be liable to respond all debts dues 6. Ordered That if any Executors or other shall Imbezel any Estate or Alienate and Dispose of any Estate of the Deceased otherwise than for Funeral Charges and of matters necessary for the Family and for the securing of such Estate before the Probate of the Will or his having taken out Letters of Administration and presenting an Inventory of all the known Estate or giving Bond so to do in such case every person so Executing or Administring shall be liable to respond all Debts and Dues and pay all Legacies whither the Estate be sufficient or not Ordered That any Executors or Administrators after they have proved any Will or obtained Administration shall be liable to be Sued and respond for any Wrong or Damage any may sustain by reason of his or their male Administration administrators to be bound by two sufficient Sureties 7. Ordered That whosoever takes our Letters of Administration shall be bound with two sufficient Sureties that they shall Administer according to Law and if the same be neglected the County Court to take the best care therein they can for the securing the Estate and appoint Administration thereon Dispose of Inestates estate 8. Ordered That if any person shall die Intestate Funeral Charges and Debts being paid and such Sum set apart as the County Court shall see meet for the bringing up of small Children or to be allowed for any Child that is Lame Decrepit or otherwise Helpless and like to be more than ordinarily chargeable The remainder of Goods and Chattels to be disposed of as follows one third part to the Widow the other two thirds to be equally divided among the Children discounting with each Child what appears they had before received in part of their Portion saving to the eldest Son a double portion if the Lands assigned to him do not amount unto a double Portion of the whole Estate real and personal 9. Ordered also That if any person dieth Intestate having Lands in fee simple whereby such Lands descend to the Heir Male Daughters portions how paid and there be divers Daughters and no considerable Estate besides Lands when Debts are paid so that Daughters cannot have Portions in any measure according to such Intestate Estate the County Court out of which Administration of any such Estate was granted and where the Land lieth shall have power upon due consideration of such case to appoint such Heir or Heirs male to pay to the Daughters Portions at such time and in such manner and so much as to said Court shall be just and reasonable not exceeding to one Daughter the portion of any younger Brother which he hath by descent and from and by Division of the Intestate Goods and Chattels and if such Heir or Heirs if of full age or their Guardian or Guardians for such or so many as are under age shall not pay such Portion or Portions as the Court hath Ordered and Appointed and set down upon Record The clerk of said Court by order of Court shall grant Execution for such Portion or Portions to be Levied on such Lands as so descended or other sufficient Estate which shall be delivered to the Party and if it be Lands it shall be as good an Estate to Her and Her Heirs as in other case of Lands delivered on Execution Wolves ORdered That if any English man kill a Wolf in this Colony if he bring in the Head to the next Constable he shall have a Receipt of the Constable for the same and shall be allowed twenty shillings Killing of Wolves what and how to be paid And if an Indian kill a Wolf in this Colony and bring the Head to the next Constable he shall have a Receipt