60 Assembly Proceedings, February — March 1638/9.

Liber
C & W H

And Be it further Enacted that all charges necessary for the
apprehending of felons or for the Imprisonment and punish-
ment of delinquents or holding the Corroners Enquest or bury-
ing of the dead body shall be defrayed out of the goods and
chattells of such felon delinquent or partie vewed by the Cor-
roner and if there be not distresse Sufficient then they shall be
defrayed by the said questor who shall put it to the accompt
of the province and every one Mamed in any such publick ex-
pedition (so that he be disabled to work) Shall be put to cure
by the Questor and till he be cured or otherwise able to work
shall be meinteined upon the publik charge
And the said Questor or Treasurer shall at the first Generall
Assembly next after such expedition or expeditions made or
otherwise at the first County Court in October make and give
in upon record an accompt of all his disburstments and so
much as shall be allowed thereof by the said Assembly or
otherwise by the said Leiutenant Generall and Councill at the
said County Court shall be levyed upon all the Inhabitants of the
province rateably to their personal Estates in such Manner and
after such proportions as the said Generall Assembly or the
said Leiutenant Generall and Councill shall rate and taxe the
same This Act to continue till the end of the next Generall
Assembly

An Act For the descending of Land

Be it Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this Province of
and with the Advice and approbation of the Freemen of the
same That a Widow immediately after the death of her
husband (if She have no jointure) Shall be admitted Tenn!

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dureing her life to one third part of all the Land whereof her
husband was seized any time dureing the Coverture (except
in cases where she hath acknowledged a fine or joyned with
her husband in making of Leases And she shall tarry in the
cheif house of her husband during her widdowhood And
where any person dieth seized of any Land the Gardian of the
heir appointed upon the Will (if the heir be within the age of
eighteen Years) may enter upon the Land and Shall be ac-
countable for the reasonable proffits thereof to the heir when
he cometh of Age. And when any person dieth seized of
any Land without disposeing thereof by Will the next heir of
such person to whom the land ought to descend by the most
generall custome or common law of England shall or may
enter upon all the land whereof his ancestor died seized and if
such next heir be not living or residing within the province
the neerest heir living within the province and claiming the
same may enter upon the land & hold it without wast or im-