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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, October 1678-November 1683
Volume 7, Page 202   View pdf image
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202 Assembly Proceedings, AugustSeptember 1681.

Liber W. H.

Member burning in the hand or forehead Cropping of yeares
or paines of death, beside Confiscacon of estate, & the Courts

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of this Province hitherto haueing followed the Rules practices
& Lawes of England in the Judgemt agt & Condemnacon
of Criminalls being to Rigorous a practice & punishmt for
this Province to exact and Imitate touching many offenders
Guilty of the offences heereafter menconed, By meanes whereof
all" prosecucons agt offenders though many times for small
Crimes & offences, & of small value haue beene hitherto
drawne & brought to the Provll Court of this Province, the
Justices whereof only haue power of Life & member to the
verry greate vexacon & Trouble of the good people of this
Province a greater parte of the Province Liueing soe Remote
from the Provll Court that they many times forbeare to prose-
cute offendrs by reason of the excessiue Charges of Comcing

to the Provll Court & bringing theire Wittnesses to prosecute,
soe that the offendrs many times goe vnpunished to the greate
encouragemt of Malefactors & for that alsoe the Provll Courts are
nott held aboue Three or ffour times in the yeare, speedy
Justice for small Crimes is defferred, & the partys accused,
many times Lye a Long time in prison before theire Tryall to
the verry greate Charge of the party which may bee in his
Tryall accquitted, or if Convicted the Charge many times falls
on the County where the offender Hues or on the Country, to
the greate burthen of the Province for the Prevencon whereof
for the future, Bee itt enacted by the Right Honourable the
Lord Propry by & with the advice & Consent of the vpper &
Lower houses of this prsent Generall Assembly and the
Authority of the same that itt shall & may bee Lawfull to &
for the seuerall & Respectiue Justices or Comissionrs of the
seuerall & Respectiue Countys within this Province, in theire
seuerall & Respectiue County Courts, To heare & determine
all Theiueings or Stealings whatsoeuer (Robery Burglary &
house breakings only excepted) whether itt bee of any Horse
Mare Gelding, Colt Cow Calfe ox Bull Steere Rames Ewes or
Lambes Goates Hoggs Piggs or any manner of Poultry or
other goods or Chatties whatsoeuer not exceeding the value of
aboue one Thousand pounds of Tobacco, & all & all manner of
persons thereof Lawfully Convicted by due Course of Law in
any of the County Courts aforesaid shall or may Cause to bee
punished by whipping or Pilloring or both, as the Justices
before whom such Conviccon shall happen to bee, shall thinke
most agreeable to the demerritt of the offendr any Law statute
or vseage to the Contrary Notwithstanding, And bee itt
further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any offender
Theiueing or Stealing as aforesaid that shall bee Convicted
thereof by Confession of the party, or by one sufficient or



 
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