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or repeal the same; but no county court shall assess any quantity
of tobacco or sum of money hereafter, on the application of any
vestryman or church wardens; and every incumbent of the church
of England who hath remained in his parish and performed his duty
shall be entitled to receive the provision and support established by
the act entiled, "An act for the support of the clergy of the church
of England in this province," till the November court of this pre-
sent year, to be held for the county in which his parish shall lie, or
partly lie, or for such time as he hath remained in his parish and per-
formed his duty.

34. That every gift, sale, or devise of lands to any minister, pub-
lic teacher] or preacher of the gospel, as such, or to any religious
sect, order or denomination, or to or for the support, use or bene-
fit of, or in trust for, any minister, public teacher or preacher of the
gospel, as such, or any religious sect, order or denomination; and
every gift or sale of goods or chattels, to go in succession, or to
take place after the death of the seller or doner, to or for such sup-
port, use or benefit; and also every devise of goods or chattels to,
or to or for the support, use or benefit of any minister, public teach-
er or preacher of the gospel, as such, or any religious sect, order or
denomination, without the leave of the legislature, shall be void;

except always any sale, gift, lease or devise of any quantity of land
not exceeding two acres, for a church, meeting, or other house of
worship, and for a burying ground, which shall be improved, en-
joyed, or used only for such purpose, or such sale, gift, lease, or
devise shall be void.

35. That no other test or qualification ought to be required on
admission to any office of trust or profit, than such oath of support
and fidelity to this state, and such oath of office as shall be directed
by this convention or the legislature of this state, and a declaration of
a belief in the Christian religion.

36. That the manner of administering an oath to any person
ought to be such as those of the religious persuasion, profession
or denomination of which such person is one, generally esteem the
most effectual confirmation by the attestation of the Divine Being.
And that the people called Quakers, those called Dunkers, and those
called Menonists, holding it unlawful to take an oath on any oc-
casion, ought to be allowed to make their solemn affirmation in the
manner that Quakers have been heretofore allowed to affirm, and
to be of the same avail as an oath in all such cases as the affirmation
of Quakers have been allowed and accepted within this state instead
of an oath. And further on such affirmation warrants to search for
stolen goods or the apprehension or commitment of offenders ought