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house of the Provost Marshall, paying his fee; and if still ob- 
durate, to undergo such severe punishment as the Governor and 
Counsell shall inflict. In case the offender was an officer, he was 
first to receive a reproof from the Governor, the second time an 
open reproot in the church by the minister, and the third time he 
was first to be committed and then degraded, with the power of 
pardon in the Governor. 
Against excess in apparel “that every man be cessed in the 
Church for all publique contributions, if he be unmarried according 
to his owne apparell; if he be married, according to his owne and 
his wives or either of their apparell.” 
Then followed provisions enjoining the people from too much 
intimacy with the Indians, but providing for their religious and 
civil education. Certain agricultural enactments were then passed 
looking toward the cultivation of enough corn to provide for the 
inhabitants and the development of other agricultural industries, 
such as silk, hemp, flax, anise seed, grapevines, the working of 
tradesmen for whomever might employ them to be paid according 
to the quality of their trade and work and the just performance of 
all contracts made in England between the owners of land and 
their tenants and servants; against the enticing away of tenants or 
servants from one plantation to another. 
The proceedings of the day wound up with a regulation with 
reference to the public magazine. 
On Tuesday, August 3d, “a third sorte of lawes (such as might 
proceed out of every man’s private conceipt) were read and re- 
ferred by halves to the same committees which were from the 
beginning.” | 
Capt. William Powell then brought to the notice of the Assembly 
the case of a “lewde and trecherous”’ servant of his, who had not 
only accused the captain of drunkenness, but had also incited fights 
and insubordination amongst his fellow servants. The Assembly 
thereupon sentenced this servant, Thomas Garnett, to stand four 
days with his ears nailed to the pillary and to be publicly whipped 
each one of those four days. 
