[1674.] Lord _Berkely_ sold his moiety of the province to _John Fenwick_, in trust for _Edward Byllinge_ and his assigns.—After which the proprietors, _E. Byllinge, William Penn, Gawen Lawrie, Nicholas Lucas, and Edmund Warner_, of the quaker persuasion, agreed with Sir _George Carteret_ [1676.] upon a division; and that his moiety should be called _New East-Jersey_; and theirs _New West-Jersey_. The agreement respecting the _not imposing or suffering to be imposed any tax, &c._ was adopted: the other stipulation is worded somewhat differently—“No man, nor number of men upon earth, hath power or authority to rule over men’s conscience in religious matters; therefore it is consented, agreed and ordained, that no person or persons whatsoever, within the province, at any time or times hereafter, shall be any ways, upon any pretence whatsoever, called in question, or in the least punished or hurt, either in person, estate or privilege, for the sake of his opinion, judgment, faith or worship towards God in matters of religion; but that all and every such person and persons, may from time to time, and at all times, freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments, and the exercise of their consciences, in matters of religious worship, throughout all the province.”[31] It was also agreed, “that all elections be not determined by the common and confused way of cries and voices; but by putting balls into balloting boxes, to be provided for that purpose, for the prevention of all partiality, and whereby every man may freely choose according to his own judgment and honest intention.”[32]