Assembly Proceedings, February — March 1638/9. 43

Wee the ffreemen of this Province takeing into our tender
care the rights and priviledge of his said Lordship so granted
and declared and that the presumption of such right and
priviledge was the main and cheif encouragement of the said
Lord Proprietarie to undertake the great charge and hazard
of planting this Province and to endue the Gentlemen and
other the first adventurers to come therein with his Lordship
by propounding a portion and Share thereof unto such as
Should adventure their persons and Estates for the beginning
of a Plantation here and being willing and ready to our powers
to assist his said Lordship in all his rights and priviledges by
inflicting penalties on all such as Shall attempt to Violate and

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infringe the same in expectance of the like protection and
assistance from his Lordship of and for the meinteining and
defending of all our rights and liberties And further con-
sidering how inconvenient it may and is like to prove to the
State of this Province and the peace and plenty thereof if a
promiscuous liberty of tradeing with the said Indians Should
be permitted and left open to all persons indifferently in regard
that there by the price of Indian Corn may easily be enhansed
and the Store thereof carried out of the province by forreiners
in time of our greatest need and that Jealousies rumors and
false newes may be spread amongst the Indians by ill affected
persons to the disturbance of the peace and Safety of the In-
habitants and that Vessells weakly maned and provided may
be and are usually set forth amongst Indians disaffected to this
Collony whereby both the men have been and may be destroyed
and the Vessells armes and Ammunition therein taken con-
verted and employed to arme the said Indians against us have
therefore thought it necessary and doe desire that it may be
enacted
And Be it Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this Province
by and with the advice assent and approbation of the ffreemen
of the same that no forreiner whatsoever from and after the
end of this present assembly come into or throughe any the
Limits or precincts of this Province to the end to trade with
any Indians of these parts nor Shall any person whatsoever
trade with any Indians of these parts nor unlade or lade any
goods or commodities traded or to be traded with or from any
such Indians out of or upon any Vessell riding or lying in or

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upon any the Waters or Shores within the Limits and precincts
aforesaid without Grant or lycence from the Lord Proprietarie
or his Leivten^t Generall had and obteined or to be had and
obteined upon pain of confiscation of all vessells and goods
tradeing or attempting to trade or traded or attempted to be
traded contrary to the intention of this present Act Pro-
vided that it Shall be Lawfull for any Inhabitant of this

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