28 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



XXXII. * * * * * 



XXXIII. That all factors or correspondents in the said province, 

 wronging their employers, shall make satisfaction, and one-third over, 

 to their said employers: and in case of the death of any such factor 

 or correspondent, the committee of trade shall take care to secure so 

 much of the deceased party's estate as belongs to his said respective 

 employers. 



XXXIY. That all Treasurers, Judges, Masters of the Rolls, Sheriffs, 

 Justices of the Peace, and other officers and persons whatsoever, relating 

 to courts, or trials of causes, or any other service in the government ; and 

 all Members elected to serve in provincial Council and General Assem- 

 bly, and all that have right to elect such Members, shall be such as 

 possess faith in Jesus Christ, and that are not convicted of ill fame, or 

 imsober and dishonest conversation, and that are of twenty-one years of 

 age, at least; and that all such so qualified, shall be capable of the said 

 several employments and privileges, as aforesaid. 



XXXV. That all persons living in this province, who confess and 

 acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Up- 

 holder and Ruler of the world ; and that hold themselves obliged in con- 

 science to live peaceably and- justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be 

 molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in 

 matters of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to 

 frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever. 



XXXVI. That, according to the good example of the primitive Chris- 

 tians, and the ease of the creation^ every first day of the week, called the 

 Lord's day, people shall abstain from their common daily labour, that 

 they may the better dispose themselves to worship God according to their 

 understandings. 



XXXVII. That as a careless and corrupt administration of justice 

 draws the wrath of God upon magistrates, so the wildness and looseness 

 of the people provoke the indignation of God against a country: there- 

 fore, that all such offences against God, as swearing, cursing, lying, 

 prophane talking, drunkenness, drinking of healths, obscene words, incest, 

 sodomy, rapes, whoredom, fornication, and other uncleanness (not to be 

 repeated) all treasons, misprisions, murders, duels, felony, sedition, maims, 

 forcible entries, and other violences, to the persons and estates of the 

 inhabitants within this province ; all prizes, stage-plays, cards, dice. May- 

 games, gamesters, masques, revels, bull-baitings, cock-fightings, bear- 

 baitings, and the like, which excite the people to rudeness, cruelty, loose- 

 ness, and irreligion, shall be respectively discouraged, and severely pun- 

 ished, according to the appointment of the Governor and freemen in 



