fths, and the reft to the publick Treasury, faving to the King the Share referved by Patent. IX. In every hundred thousand Acres, the Governor and Proprietary, by Lot, referveth ten to himself, what fhall lie but in one Place. X. That every Man fhall be bound to plant or man fo much of his Share of Land as fhall be fet out and furveyed, within three Years after it is fo fet out and furveyed, or elfe it fhall be lawful for new Comers to be fettled thereupon, paying to them their Survey-Money, and they go up higher for their Shares. XI. There shall be no buying and felling, be it with an Indian, or one among another, of any Goods to be exported, but what fhall be performed in publick Market, when fuch Places fhall be fet apart or erected, where they fhall pass the publick Stamp or Mark. If bad Ware, and prized as good, or deceitful in Proportion or Weight, to forfeit the Value as if good and full Weight and Proportion, to the publick Treafury of the Province, whether it be the Merchandize of the Indian, or that of the Planters. XII. And forafmuch as it is ufual with the Planters, to over-reach the poor Natives of the Country in Trade, by Goods not being good of the Kind, or debased with Mixtures, with which they are fenfibly aggrieved, it is agreed, whatever is fold to the Indians, in Confideration of their Furs, fhall be fold in the Market-place, and there fuffer the Teft, whether good or bad; if good, to pafs; if not good, not to be fold for good, that the Natives, may not be abufed nor provoked. XIII. That no Man fhall by any Ways or Means, in Word or Deed, affront or wrong any Indian, but he fhall incur the fame Penalty of the Law, as if he had committed it against his Fellow-Planter;" and if any Indian fhall abufe, in Word or Deed, any Planter of this Province, that he fhall not be his own Judge upon the Indian, but he fhall make his Complaint to the Governor of the Province, or his Lieutenant or Deputy, or fome inferior Ma giftrate near him, who fhall, to the utmost of his Power, take Care with the King of the faid In dian, that all reafonable Satisfaction be made to the faid injured Planter. XIV. That all Differences between the Planters and the Natives, fhall alfo be ended by twelve Men, that is, by fix Planters and fix Natives, that fo we may live friendly together as much as in us lieth, preventing all Occafions of Heart-burnings and Mischief. XV. That the Indians fhall, have Liberty to do all Things relating to the Improvement of their Ground, and providing Suftenance for their Fami lies, that any of the Planters fhall enjoy. XVI. That the Laws as to Slanders, Drunkenness, Swearing, Curfing, Pride in Apparel, Trefpaffes, Diftreffes, Replevins, Weights and Measures, fhall be the fame as in England, till altered by Law in this Province. XVII. That all fhall mark their Hogs, Sheep, and other Cattle, and what are not marked within three Months after it is in their Poffeffion, be if young or old, it shall be forfeited to the Governorį that fo People may be compelled to avoid the Qccafions of much Strife between Planters. XVIII! That in clearing the Ground, Care be taken to leave one Acre of Trees for every five Acres cleared, especially to preferve Oak and MulberriesTM for Silk and Shipping. t XIX? That all Ship-Mafters fhall give an Account of their Countries, Names, Ships, Owners, Freights and Paffengers, to an Officer to be appointed for that Purpose, which fhall be regiftred within two Days after their Arrival; and if they fhall refufe fo to do, that then none prefume to trade with them, upon Forfeiture thereof; and that fuch Mafters be 1boked upon as having an evil Intention to the Province. XX. That no Perfon leave the Province, without Publication being made thereof, in the MarketPlace, three Weeks before, and a Certificate from fome Justice of the Peace, of his Clearness with his Neighbours, and thofe he hath dealt withal, fo, far as fuch an Affurance can be attained and given: And if any Mafter of a Ship fhall, contrary hereunto, receive and carry away any Perfon, that hath not given that publick Notice, the faid Mafter fhall be liable to all Debts owing, by the faid, Perfon, fo fecretly tranfported from the Province. Laftly, that thefe are to be added to, or corrected, by and with the Confent of the Parties hereunto fubfcribed. Sealed and delivered in William Boelham, WILLIAM PEnn. + Sealed Sealed and delivered in the Prefence of all the Proprietors who have hereunto fubfcribed, except Thomas Farrinborrough and John Goodfon, in the Prefence of Hugh Chamberlen, "Alt ACT of SETTLEMENT, made at Chefter, 1682. WHEREAS WILLIAM PENN, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennfylvania, and Territories thereunto belonging, bath, out of his great Kindnefs and Goodness to the Inhabitants thereof, been favourably pleafed to give and grant unto them a Charter of Liberties and Privileges, dated the Twenty-fifth Day of the fecond Month, One Thousand Six Hundred and Eightytwo By which Charter it is faid, the Government fhall confift of the Governor and Freemen of the faid Province, in the Form of a provincial Council and general Affembly; and that the provincial Council fhall confift of Seventy-two Members, to be chofen by the Freemen; and that the general Affembly may, the first Year, confift of the whole Body of the Freeholders, and ever after of an elected Number, not exceeding two hundred Perfons, without the Confent of the provincial Council and general Affembly: And fuch Affembly to fit yearly on the twentieth Day of the third Month, " as as in the first, second, third, fixth, fourteenth and fixteenth Articles of the Charter, Reference being thereunto had, doth more at large appear. And forafmuch as this Charter was the firft of thofe probationary Laws, that were agreed to and made by and between the Proprietary, and Governor, and Freemen in England, that were Purchasers in this Province, which faid Laws, in the whole and in every Part thereof, were to be fubmitted to the Explanation and Confirmation of the first provincial Council and general Affembly that was to be held in this Province, as by the Title and firft Law of the faid Agreement doth plainly appear. And whereas, the Proprietary and Governor hath, according to that Charter, iffued out Writs to the refpective Sheriffs of the fix Counties of this Province, to fummon the Freemen thereof, to chufe in each County twelve Perfons of moft Note for their Sobriety, Wisdom, and Integrity, to ferve in provincial Council; and alfo to inform the Freemen that they might come, for this Time, in their own Perfons, to make up a general Affembly, according to Charter. And that the faid respective Sheriffs by their Returns, and the Freemen by their Petitions to the Proprietary and Governor, have plainly declared, that the Fewness of the People, their Inability in Eftate, and Unskilfulness in Matters of Government, will not permit them to ferve in fo large a Council and Affembly, as by the Charter is expreffed; and therefore do defire, that the Members now chofen to be their Deputies and Reprefentatives, may ferve both for provincial Council and general Affembly; that is to say, three out of each County for the provincial Council, and the remaining nine for the general Affembly, according to Act, as fully and amply as if the said provincial Council and general Assembly had con fifted |