A34660:68
An abstract or the laws of New England as they are now establishedAn abstract or the lawes of New England as they are novv established
London: printed for F. Coules and W. Ley, 1641
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 First, that no free Burgess, or free Inhabitant of any Town shall sell the Land allotted to him in the Town, (unless the free Burgess of the Town give consent unto such sale, or refuse to give due price answerable to what other offer without fraud) but to some one or other of the free Burgesses, or free Inhabitants of the same Town.
1 First, that no free Burgesse, or free Inhabitant of any Town shall sell the Land allotted to him in the Towne, (unlesse the free Burgesse of the Towne give consent unto such sale, or refuse to give due price answerable to what other offer without fraud) but to some one or other of the free Burgesses, or free Inhabitants of the same Towne.
2 That if such Lands be sold to any others, the sale shall be made with reservation of such a rent charge to be paid to the Town Stock, or Treasury of the Town, as either the former occupiers of the Land were wont to pay towards all the public charges thereof; whether in Church or Town, or at least after the rate of three shillings the acre or some such like proportion, more or less, as shall be thought fit.
2 That if such Lands be sould to any others, the sale shall be made with reservation of such a rent charge to be paid to the Town Stock, or Treasury of the Towne, as either the former occupiers of the Land were wont to pay towards all the publike charges thereof; whether in Church or Town, or at least after the rate of three shillings the acre or some such like proportion, more or lesse, as shall be thought fit.
3 That if any free Burgesses, or free Inhabitants of any Town, or the heir of any of their Lands, shall remove their dwelling from one Town to another, none of them shall carry away the whole benefit of the Lands which they possessed, from the Townes whence they remove: But if they shall keep the right of Inheritance, in their own hands, & not sell it as before, then, they shall reserve a like proportion or Rent charge out of their Land, to be paid to the public Treasury of the Town, as hath been wont to be paid out of it to the public charges of the Town and Church, or at least after the rate of three or five shillings an Acre, as before.