This house has considered of the message...relating to the punishing the several crimes of whoredome, adultery, swearing, cursing & sabbath breaking, &c. and say that they are not unsensible of the too frequent committing the said crimes in the Province, but think not the same through any deficiencys of the laws, for that there have been formerly several good and wholesome laws provided in this Province...But this house conceives that the occasion of the said crimes being so frequently committed in this Province, is because the said laws are not put in execution against the offenders by (the) magistrates.