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It shall pertain also to the Office of the Treasurer, to survey and oversee all the munitions of the Country, as Cannons, Culvering, Muskets, Powder, Match, Bullets, and to give account thereof to the Governor and Council.

It shall pertaine also to the Office of the Treasurer, to survey and oversee all the munitions of the Countrey, as Cannons, Culvering, Muskets, Powder, Match, Bullets, and to give accompt thereof to the Governor and Counsell.

5 A Treasury also or Magazine, or Storehouse to be erected, and furnished in every Town, as Deut. 14.28. distinct from the Treasury of the Church, that provision of Corn and other necessaries, may be laid up at the best hand, for the relief of such poor, as are not members of the Church; and that out of it such Officers may be maintained, as Captains and such 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.

5 A Treasury also or Magazin, or Storehouse to be erected, and furnished in every Town, as Deut. 14.28. distinct from the Treasury of the Church, that provision of Corne and other necessaries, may be laid up at the best hand, for the reliefe of such poore, as are not members of the Church; and that out of it such Officers may be mainteined, as Captaines and such like, who do any publike service for the Town: But chiefly this Treasury will be requisite for the preserving of the livelyhood of each Town within it selfe.

That in case the Inheritance of the Lands belong to any Town, come to be alienated from the Townsmen, which may unavoidably fall out: Yet a supply may be had and made to the livelihood of the Town by a reasonable Rent charge, upon such alienations laid by the common consent of the Land-owners and Townsmen, and to be paid unto the Treasury of the Town.