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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.
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.
Sect. 5. A Treasury also, or Magazine, or storehouse to be erected and furnished in every Town, distinct from the Treasury of the Church, that provisions of corn and of other necessaries may be laid up at the best hand, for the provision of such poor, as are not members of the Church, as it is written Deut. 14. 28, 29. Thou shalt lay it up within thy gates. And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow which are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat, and be satisfied, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee, in all the work of thy hand, which thou doest: And out of it such Officers may be maintained (as Captains or the like) who do any public service for the Town. But chiefly this treasury will be requisite for the preserving of the livelihood of each Town within it self: that in case the inheritance of the lands that belong to any Town, come to be alienated from the towns-men (which may unavoidably fall out) yet a supply may be made to the lively-hood of the Town, by a reasonable rent charge upon such alienations (laid by the common consent of the land-owners, and towns-men) to be paid into the Treasury of the Town.