ikewise regulated, competent allowances were
made to the ministers, to the value of about fourscore pounds a year,
besides glebes and perquisites, and the method of their preferment was
settled. Convenient churches and glebes were provided, and all necessary
parish officers instituted. Some steps were made also towards a free
school and college, and the poor were effectually provided for.

Sec. 74. For support of the government, the duty of two shillings per
hogshead on all tobaccos, and that of one shilling per ton port duty on
shipping, were made perpetual; and the collectors were obliged to
account for the same to the general assembly.

Sec. 75. For encouragement of manufactures, prizes were appointed for the
makers of the best pieces of linen cloth, and a reward of fifty pounds
of tobacco was given for each pound of silk. All persons were enjoined
to plant mulberry trees, for the food of the silk worm, according to the
number of acres of land they held. Tan houses were set up in each
county, at the county charge; and public encouragement was given to a
salt work on the eastern shore. A reward was appointed in proportion to
the tonnage of all sea vessels built there, and an exemption allowed
from all fees and duties payable by such shipping.

Sec. 76. The king had commanded, that all ships trading to Virginia should
go to Jamestown, and there enter before they broke bulk. But the
assembly, from the impracticableness of that command, excused all,
except the James river ships, from that order, and left the others in
the rivers they were bound to, to ride dispersed, as the commanders
pleased; by whose example the James river ships were no sooner entered
with the officer at Jamestown, but they also dispersed themselves to
unload, and trade all over the river. By this means the design of towns
was totally balked, and this order proved only an ease to the officer of
James river, and a means of creating a good place to him.

Sec. 77. Peace and commerce with the Indians was settled by law, and their
boundaries prescribed. Several other acts were made suiting the
necessity of the government; so that nothing then seemed to remain, but
the improvement of the country, and encouragement of those manufactures
the king had been pleased to recommend, together with such others as
should be found beneficial.

Sec. 78. Sir William Berkeley at his return gave sanction to this body of
laws, and being then again in full possession of