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An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen…An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen…
An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen the wisdom & perfection of the government of Christs kingdom accommodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannical / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
London: printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. By the yearly payment. 1. Of 1d. or ½ an acre of land occupied throughout the country. Lands occupied in common by a town, to be paid out of the treasury or stock of the same town. 2. Of 1d for every beast, horse, or cow. 3. Of some proportionable rate upon Merchants goods. 2. By the payment of a barrel of gun-powder or such munition, out of every ship that bringeth in foreign commodities. 3. By fines or mulcts put upon Trespassers.
1. By the yearely payment. 1. Of 1d. or ½ an acre of land occupied througout the country. Lands occupied in common by a towne, to be paid out of the treasury or stock of the same towne. 2. Of 1d for every beast, horse, or cowe. 3. Of some proportionable rate upon Merchants goods. 2. By the payment of a barrel of gun-powder or such munition, out of every ship that bringeth in forreign commodities. 3. By fines or mulcts put upon Trespassors.
Sect. 4. A Treasurer to be chosen by the free Burgesses, out of the Assistants, who shall receive and keep the Treasury, and make disbursements out of it, according to the direction of the general Court, or of the Governor and Council, whereof they are to give an account at the general Court. It shall also pertain to the Office of the Treasurer, diligently to survey and oversee, all the munitions of the country, canons, culverings, muskets, powder, match, bullets, &c. and to give account thereof to the Governor and Council.
Sect. 4. A Treasurer to be chosen by the free Bugesses, out of the Assistants, who shall receive and keep the Treasury, and make disbursments out of it, according to the direction of the generall Court, or of the Governor and Councel, whereof they are to give an account at the general Court. It shall also pertaine to the Office of the Treasurer, diligently to survey and oversee, all the munitions of the country, canons, culverings, musquets, powder, match, bullets, &c. and to give account thereof to the Governour and Councell.