Provided that in case his Lordship or his Leivtent Generall
shall at the request of the partie so condemned exchanges
such pains of death into Servitude That then such exchange
shall not exceed the time of Seaven years & that the master
or dame of the parties so pardoned of death shall be first
satisfied for, the terme of such parties Service unexpired from
the day of such unlawfull departure & for double the time of
his absence dureing his said departure
An Act For measures
whereas the want of a sett & appointed measure whereby
Corne and other graine might be bought & Sold wthin this
Province doth dayly breed inconveniencies in the pasing thereof
from man to man amongst the Inhabitants thereof Be it
Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this province by & with
the assent and approbation of the freemen of this Province
that from henceforth the measure used in Engld called the
Winchester Busshell be only used as the rule to measure all
things which are sold by the Bushell or barrell and all under
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