The last acte of the Generall Assembly was a contribution to gratifie their officers, as followeth:[P] [P] This paragraph is in the McDonald and Bancroft copies but not in De Jarnette's. AUG. 4^{th}, 1619. It is fully agreed at this generall[445] Assembly that in regarde of the great[446] paines and labour of the[447] Speaker of this Assembly (who not onely[448] first formed the same Assembly and to their great ease & expedition reduced all matters to be treatted of into a ready method, but also his indisposition notw^{th}standing wrote or dictated all orders and other expedients and is yet[449] to write severall bookes for all the Generall[450] Incorporations and plantations both of the great charter, and of all the lawes) and likewise in respecte of the dilligence of the Clerke and sergeant, officers thereto belonging. That every man and manservant of above 16 yeares of age shall pay into the handes and Custody of the Burgesses of every Incorporation and plantation one pound of the best Tobacco, to be distributed to the Speaker and likewise to the Clerke and sargeant of the Assembly, according to their degrees and rankes, the whole bulke whereof to be delivered into the Speaker's handes, to be divided accordingly. And in regarde[451] the Provost Marshall of James citty hath also given some attendance upon the said Generall Assembly, he is also to have a share out of the same. And this is to begin to be gathered the 24^{th} of February nexte. [445] general, McDonald. [446] greate, Bancroft. [447] this, McDonald. [448] only, McDonald. [449] yett, Bancroft. [450] severall, McDonald, Bancroft. [451] regard to, McDonald; regard, Bancroft. In conclusion, the whole Assembly comaunded[452] the Speaker (as nowe he doth) to present their humble excuse to the Treasurer[453] Counsell & Company in England for being constrained by the intemperature of the weather and the falling sick of diverse of the Burgesses to breake up so abruptly--before they had so much as putt their lawes to the ingrossing. This they wholly comited to[454] the fidelity of their speaker, who therin[455] (his conscience telles him) hath done the parte[456] of an honest man, otherwise he would be easily founde[457] out by the Burgesses themselves, who w^{th} all expedition are to have so many bookes of the same lawes as there be both Incorporations and Plantations in the Colony. [452] comanded, McDonald, Bancroft. [453] Tresurer, McDonald, Bancroft. [454] in, Bancroft. [455] therein, McDonald. [456] part, McDonald. [457] woulde easily be found, McDonald; would easily be founde, Bancroft.