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XXIII. That no act, law, or ordinance whatsoever, shall at any time 

 hereafter, be made or done bj the Governor of this province, his heirs or 

 assigns, or by the freemen in the provincial Council, or the General 

 Assembly, to alter, change, or diminish the form, or effect, of this charter^ 

 or any part, or clause thereof, or contrary to the true intent and mean- 

 ing thereof, without the consent of the Governor, his heirs, or assigns, and 

 six parts of seven of the said freemen in provincial Council and General 

 Assembly. 



XXIV. And lastly, that I, the said William Penn^ for myself, my 

 heirs and assigns, have solemnly declared, granted and confirmed, and da 

 hereby solemnly declare, grant and confirm, that neither I, my heirs, nor 

 assigns, shall procure or do any thing or things, whereby the liberties, 

 in this charter contained and expressed, shall be infringed or broken; 

 and if any thing be procured by any person or persons contrary to these 

 premises, it shall be held of no force or effect. In witness whereof, I,, 

 the said William Penn^ have unto this present character of liberties set 

 my hand and broad seal, this five and twentieth day of the second month,, 

 vulgarly called April, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred 

 and eighty-two. 



WILLIAM PENN. 



LAWS AGREED UPON IN ENGLAND, kG. 



I. That the charter of liberties, declared, granted and confirmed the five 

 and twentieth day of the second month, called April, 1682, before divers- 

 witnesses, by William Penn^ Governor and chief Proprietor of Pensil- 

 vania, to all the freemen and planters of the said province, is hereby de- 

 clared and approved, and shall be for ever held for fundamental in the 

 government thereof, according to the limitations mentioned in the said 

 charter. 



II. That ever}^ inhabitant in the said province, that is or shall be, a 

 purchaser of one hundred acres of land, or upwards, his heirs and assigns, 

 and every person who shall have paid his passage, and taken up one hun- 

 dred acres of land, at one penny an acre, and have cultivated ten acres 

 thereof, and every person, that hath been a servant, or bonds-man, and 

 is free by his service, that shall have taken up his fifty acres of land, and 

 cultivated twenty thereof, and every inhabitant, artificer, or other resi- 

 dent in the said province, that pa3^s scot and lot to the government ; 

 shall be deemed and accounted a freeman of the said province : and every 

 such person shall, and may, be capable of electing, or being elected^ 

 representatives of the people, in provincial Council, or General Assem- 

 bly, in the said province. 



III. That all elections of members, or representatives of the people 

 and freemen of the province of Pensilva7u'a, to serve in provincial 



