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 which the law of God etablithed in Iraell concerning uch perons doeth morally require. This exempts none from ervitude who hall be Judged thereto by Authoritie." M. H. S. Coll.,, viii., 231.

Thee laws were not printed, but were publihed in manucript under the uperintendence of a committee in which Deputy-Governor Endicott was aociated with Mr. Downing and Mr. Hauthorne, and, Governor Winthrop ays, "etablifhed for three years, by that experience to have them fully amended and etablifhed to be perpetual." Mas, Records,, 344, 346. Winthrop's Journal,, 55. By the ninety-eighth and lat ection of this code, it was decreed as follows:

"98. Latly becaue our dutie and deire is to do nothing uddainlie which fundamentally concerne us, we decree that thee rites and liberties, hall be Audably read and deliberately weighed at every Generall Court that hall be held, within three yeares next inueing, And uch of them as hall not be altered or repealed they hall tand o ratified, That no man hall infringe them without due punihment.

“And if any Generall Court within thee next thre yeares hall faile or forget to reade and conider them as aboveaid, The Governor and Deputy Governor for the time being, and every Aitant preent at uch Courts, hall forfeite 20 h. a man, and everie Deputie 10 h. a man for each neglect, which hall be