X.

That all Prifons fhall be Work-houfes for Fe-Jons, Vagrants, and loose and idle Perfons; whereof one fhall be in every County.

XI.

That all Prisoners fhall be bailable by fufficient Sureties, unless for capital Offences, where the Proof is evident, or the Prefumption great.

XII.

That all Persons wrongfully imprisoned, or profecuted at Law, fhall have double Damages against the Informer or Profecutor.

XIII.

-That all Prifons' fhall be free as to Fees, Food, and Lodging.

XIV.

That all Lands and Goods fhall be liable to pay Debts, except where there is legal Iflue, and then all the Goods, ond one Third of the Land only.

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That all Wills in Writing, attefted by two Witneffes, fhall be of the fame Force, as to Lands, as other Conveyances, being legally proved within forty Days, either within or without the faid Pro vince.

XVI.

That feven Years quiet Poffeffion fhall give an unqueftionable Right, except in Cafes of Infants, Lunaticks, married Women, or Perfons beyond the Seas.

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That all Briberies, and Extortions whatfoever, fhall be feverely punished.

XVIII.

That all Fines fhall be moderate, and faving Mens Contenements, Merchandize, or Wainage.

XIX.

That all Marriages (not forbidden by the Law of God, as to Nearnefs of Blood and Affinity by Marriage) fhall e encouraged; but the Parents or Guardians Thall be firft confulted, and the Marriage fhall be publifhed before it be folemnized; and it fhall be folemnized by taking one another as Hufband and Wife, before credible Witneffes, and a Certificate of the whole, under the Hands of Parties and Witneffes, fhall be brought to the proper Regifter of that County, and fhall be registred in his Office.

o XX.

And to prevent Fraude and yexatious Suits within the faid Province, that all Charters, Gifts, Grants, and Conveyances of Land, (except Leafes for a Year or under) and all Bills, Bonds, and not under three Months, made in the faid Province, fhall be enrolled or registered in the publick Enrollment-Office of the faid Province, within the Space of two Months next after the making thereof, elfe to be void in Law. And all Deeds, Grants, and Conveyances of Land (except as aforefaid) within the faid Province, and made out of the faid Province, fhall be enrolled or registered as aforefaid, within fix Months next after the making thereof, and fettling and conftituting an Enrollment-Office or Registry within the faid Province, elle to be void in Law againft all Perfons whatsoever."

Specialities above five Ponds and

XXI.

That all Defacers or Corrupters of Charters, Gifts, Grants, Bonds, Bills, Wills, Contracts, and Conveyances, or that fhall deface or falfify any Enrollment, Regiftry or Record within this Province, fhall make double Satisfaction for the fame ; half whereof shall go to the Party wronged, and K 5

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they fhall be difmiffed of all Places of Trust, and be publickly difgraced as false Men.

XXII.

That there fhall be a Register for Births, Marriages, Burials, Wills, and Letters of Admini ftration, diftinct from the other Registry,

XXIII.

That there fhall be a Register for all Servants, where their Names, Time, Wages, and Days of Payment thall be regiftred.

XXIV.

That all Lands and Goods of Felons fhall be liable to make Satisfaction to the Party wronged twice the Value; and for Want of Lands or Goods, the Felons fhall be Bondmen, to work in the common Prifon or Work-houfe, or otherwife, till the Party injured be fatisfied.

XXV.

That the Estates of capital Offenders, as Traitors and Murderers, fhall go one Third to the next of Kin to the Sufferer, and the Remainder to the next of Kin to the Criminal.

XXVI.

That all Witneffes, coming or called to teftify their Knowledge in or to any Matter or Thing in any Court, or before any lawful Authority within the faid Province, fhall there give or deliver in their Evidence or Teftimony by folemnly promifing to fpeak the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, to the Matter or Thing in Question. And in Cafe any Perfon fo called to Evidence, fhall be convicted of wilful Falfhood, fuch Perfon fhall fuffer and undergo fuch Damage or Penalty, as the Perfon or Perfons againft whom he or the bore falfe Witnefs, did or fhould undergo; and shall alfo make Satisfaction to the Party wronged, and be publickly expofed as a falfe Wit

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nefs, never to be credited in any Court, or before any Magiftrate in the faid Province.

XXVII.

And to the End that all Officers chofen to ferve within this Province, may with more Care and Diligence answer the Truft repofed in them, it is agreed, That no fuch Perfon fhall enjoy more than one publick Office at one Time.

XXVIII.

That all Children within this Province of the Age of twelve Years, fhall be taught some useful Trade or Skill, to the End none may be idle, but the Poor may work to live, and the Rich, if they become poor, may not want,

XXIX.

That Servants be not kept longer than their Time, and fuch as are careful, be both juftly and kindly used in their Service, and put in fitting Equipage at the Expiration thereof, according to Cuftom.

XXX.

That all fcandalous and malicious Reporters. Backbiters, Defamers, and Spreaders of falfe News,, whether against Magiftrates or private Perfons,, fhall be accordingly feverely punished, as Enemies to the Peace and Concord of this Province.

XXXI.

That for the Encouragement of the Planters and Traders in, this Province,, who are incorporated into a Society, the Patent granted to them by William Penn, Governor of the faid Province, is hereby ratified and confirmed..

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XXXIII.

That all Factors or Correfpondents in the faid Province, wronging their Employers, shall make Satisfaction and one Third over, to their faid Employers: And in Cafe of the Death of any fuch Factor or Correfpondent, the Committee of Trade fhall take Care to fecure fo much of the deceased Party's Eftate, as belongs to his faid refpective Employers.

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That all Treasurers, Judges, Mafters of the Rolls, Sheriffs, Juftices of the Peace, and other Officers and Perfons whatsoever, relating to Courts or Trials of Causes, or any other Service in the Government; and all Members elected to ferve în provincial Council and general Affembly, and all that have Right to elect fach Members, fhall be fuch as profefs Faith in Jefus Christ, and that are not convicted of ill Fame, or unfober and difhoneft Conversation, and that are of twenty-one Years of Age at leaft; and that all such so qualified, shall be capable of the faid feveral Employments and Privileges as aforefaid.

XXXV.

That all Perfons living in this Province, who confefs and acknowledge the one Almighty and Eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and that hold themselves obliged in Confcience to live peaceably and juftly in civil Society, fhall in no Ways be molefted or prejudiced for their religious Perfwafion or Practice in Matters of Faith and Worship, nor fhall they be compelled at any Time to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place. or MiniAry whatever.

XXXVI.

That according to the good Example of the primitive Chriftians, and the Eafe of the Creation,