whereof to go to the discoverer, and
the rest to charitable & pious uses in the Incorporation where the
faulte[201] is comitted.

[198] and, Bancroft.

[199] As the McDonald copy has & in every instance where the other two
have and, the reader will bear this in mind and it will not be again
repeated.

[200] forfaite, McDonald.

[201] faults are, McDonald.

Against drunkenness be it also decreed that if any private person be
found culpable thereof, for the first time he is to be reprooved
privately by the Minister, the second time publiquely, the thirde time
to lye in boltes 12 howers in the house of the Provost Marshall & to
paye his fee,[202] and if he still continue in that vice, to undergo
suche severe punishment as the Governo^r[203] and Counsell of Estate
shall thinke fitt to be inflicted on him. But if any officer offende in
this crime, the first time he shall receive a reprooff from the
Governour, the second time he shall openly be reprooved in the churche
by the minister, and the third time he shall first be comitted and then
degraded. Provided it be understood that the Govern^r[204] hath
alwayes[205] power to restore him when he shall, in his discretion
thinke fitte.

[202] fees, McDonald.

[203] Gover^{nr}, McDonald; Govern^r, Bancroft.

[204] Gover^{nr}, McDonald; Govern^r, Bancroft.

[205] alwaies, McDonald; always, Bancroft.

Against excesse in[206] apparell that every man be cessed in the churche
for all publique contributions, if he be unmarried according to his owne
apparrell, if he be married, according to his owne and his wives, or
either of their apparell.

[206] of, McDonald.

As touching the instruction[207] of drawing some of the better disposed
of the Indians to converse w^{th} our people & to live and labour
amongst[208] them, the Assembly who knowe[209] well their dispositions
thinke it fitte to enjoine,[210] least to counsell those of the Colony,
neither utterly to rejecte them nor yet to drawe them to come in. But in
case they will of themselves come voluntarily to places well peopled,
there to doe service in killing of Deere, fishing, beatting of Corne and
other workes, that then five or six may be admitted into every such
place, and no more, and that w^{th} the consente[211] of the Governour.
Provided that good[212] guarde[213] in the night be kept upon them, for
generally (though some amongst many may proove[214] good) they are a
most trecherous people and quickly gone whe