=_Whereas_= the justices of the county courts ... have accustommarily
sett ... a rate or assessment upon the people of their counties ...
and whereas it hath been suspected ... that under colour thereof many
sums have bin raised ... =_for the interest of particular
persons._= ... =Bee= it enacted ... that some of the discreetest
and ableest of the inhabitants of each county, =_equal in number to
the number of justices_= ... be yearly chosen ... [by parishes] by
majoritie of votes of householders, ffreeholders, and ffreemen ...
which said representatives, together with the justices ... are to
meet at the usual place ... and are hereby authorized and impowered
to have equal votes with them, the said justices, =_in laying county
assessments and of_= [in] =_making wholesome by-lawes_= for the good of
their counties.
IX, X, XI. [Forms of procedure in collecting levies and administering
estates.]
XII. [Abolition of exemptions from taxation.]
For the greater ease of the country ... Bee it enacted that the 55th
act of the printed laws [code of 1662], soe far as it relates to the
honorable councill of state and ministers, bee ... repealed, and that
for the future the persons of the councill and all others of their
families be liable to pay levies ... and that the person of every
minister bee exempted, ... but all other tithable persons in his
familie shall be liable to pay levies....
XIII. [Permitting wolf-bounties.]
XIV. [Regarding trespass by "unrulie horses" "within another person's
enclosure."]
XV. [Forbids exportation of corn until next session of the assembly.]
XVI. [For temperance reform.]
Whereas it is most apparently found that the many ordinaries [taverns]
in severall parts of the country are very prejudiciall ... Bee it
therefore enacted ... that no ordinaries, ale houses, or other tipling
houses whatsoever ... be kept in any part of the country [except "at
James Citty" and "at the two great ferries" of Yorke river];
_Provided_ ... that [these exceptions] be admitted ... to sell ...
mare's meate, horse-meate, beer, and syder, but no other strong drinke
whatsoever. ... [Penalty of 1000 pounds tobacco for selling "any sorte
of drinke or liquor" _or for_ "_being drunke ... in his ... house_."]
XVII. XVIII. [Special Acts, relating to James City and two counties.]
Act XIX. [_General Pardon and Oblivion._]
Act XX. [Disabling Lt. Col. Edward Hill and Lieut. John Stith. from
bearing any office, civil or military, because these men had "bin the
greatest instruments ... of raiseing, promoteing, and stirring up
the late differences and misunderstandings ... between the honorable
governour and his majesties good and loyal subjects," Beacon's party.]
107. Bacon's Proclamation, July 30, 1676
_Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, Fourth Series, IX,
184-187.
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