No maide or woman servant, either now resident in the Colonie or hereafter to come, shall contract herselfe in marriage without either the consente of her parents, or of her Master or Mistress, or of the magistrat and minister of the place both together. And whatsoever minister shall marry or contracte any suche persons without some of the foresaid consentes shalbe subjecte to the severe censure of the Governor and Counsell of Estate. _Here ende the lawes._ ... Captain Henry Spellman was called to the barre to answere to certaine misdemeanors ... whereupon the General Assembly, having thoroughly heard and considered his speeches [evidence had been taken and defense put in], did constitute the following order [For exposing the colony to disturbance from the Indians by inciting them to disrespect of the government, Spellman was "degraded of his title of Captaine" and "condemned to performe seven yeares service to the Colony" as an interpreter to the governor.] [Provision that every male in the colony over 16 years of age shall be taxed "one pound of the best tobacco" for pay to the officers of the Assembly.] * * * * * Thirdly, the General Assembly doth humbly beseech the ... Treasurer, Counsell and Company that, albeit it belongeth to them onely to allowe or to abrogate any lawes which we shall here make ... yet that it would please them not to take it in ill parte if these lawes ... do passe currant and be of force till suche time as we may knowe their farther pleasure.... Their last humble suite is that the said Counsell and Company would be pleased, so soon as they shall find it convenient, to make good their _promise sett downe at the conclusion of their commission for establishing the Counsel of Estate and the General Assembly, namely that they give us power to allowe or to disallowe of their orders of Courts, as his Majesty hath given them power to allowe or reject our lawes_. In sume, Sir George Yeardley, the Governor, prorogued the said general Assembly till the firste of Marche, which is to fall out this present yeare of 1619 [1620. New Style; cf. note, page 44], and in the mean season dissolved the same. 26. The London Company's "Declaration," June, 1620 Peter Force's _Historical Tracts_ (Washington, 1844), III, No. 5. Sandys resigned his "Treasurership" at the Court of the Company in May, 1620. The statistics of his report, with an enthusiastic general statement to introduce them, were published soon afterward by the Company as "A Declaration of the State of the Colonie and Affaires in Virginia." Sandys' report is now printed in full in the _Records_ of the Company, edited by Susan Kingsbury (Washington, 1906).