An Act for the speedy payment

of debts due to the Lord Proprietary.

Bee it Enacted by the Lord Proprietary of this Province with
the consent and approbation of the upper and lower house of
this Assembly that all debts which either are or shall bee from
time to time really and truely due to his Lordship or his heires
Lords and Proprietarys of this Province shall bee first payd and
sattisfyed within the said Province before any other debts
whatsoever.

An Act for taking of an Oathe
of Fidellity to the Lord Proprietary

Bee it Enacted by the Lord Proprietary with the advice and
consent of the upper and lower house of this present Assembly
that every person from time to time inhabiting or resydinge
within this Province and such who have or shall from time to
time have any Estate and bee att any time in person within the
same shall take the Oath here under mentioned in this Act and
Entitled the Oathe of fidellity to the Lord and Proprietary of
this Province to bee administered unto him and them respec-
tively upon the holy Evangelists by the Leiuetenant or Cheife
Governour of this Province for the time being, or by such
person or persons as hee or the Lord and Proprietary of this
Province or his heires Lords and Proprietarys of the same shall
from tyme to tyme appoynt or authorize for the Administration
thereof as aforesaid, and if any person or persons which either
are or hereafter shall bee within this Province shall att any
tyme within the same refuse to take the said Oathe upon the
said holy Evangelists according to the true intent and meaning
of this Act when itt shall bee soe administered unto him or them
respectively as aforesaid, he and they respectively soe refusinge
shall forthwith after such refusall bee expelled and banished
this Province and not returne againe into itt without leave
from the Lord Proprietary or his heires Lords and Proprietarys
of this Province, or his or their Leiuetenant or Cheife Governor
of the same for the tyme being and if any person or persons
who shall bee expelled or banished for such Refusall as afore-
said shall bee found in any part of the said Province thirety
dayes after such refusall or shall afterwards returne into any
part of the said Province without such leave as aforesaid or