Acts Passed at the Session, Mar. 16, 1701/2-Mar. 25,1 702. 269

Burialls heretofore made, with any Clarke of any County
Court according to the direccons of such Laws, as were then
in force, before any of those Laws were in being. And that
the Register of each Parish may be enabled to performe the
Charge hereby required of him. Bee it Enacted by the Author-
ity Advise and consent Aforesaid, That if there be any
Vestry of any Parishes that has not already Provided good and
Substantiall Writeing books: well bound sufficient for regist-
ring such proceedings, in according to the direccons of the
former Laws: that in every such case of such neglect or omis-
sion the Vestry of such parish shall at the Parish charge, Pro-
vide such book or books w^thin Six moneths from the end of
this Session of Assembly under the Penalty of ffive hundred
pounds of Tob^o each Vestryman (the Minister only excepted)
neglecting as aforesaid. To our Soveraigne Lord the King,
for the uses within menconed: And that there may be noe
neglect in the Vestry of those Employ'd under them in the
Lawfull and conscionable Performance of theire Severall
charges. The said severall Vestrys are hereby obliged to
meet once in every moneth, or as often as need shall require
upon publick notice given by the Principall Vestryman of each
Parish To Consult of the methods and ways of performing the
severall Authorityes reposed in them. And from which Vestry
soe Appointed, noe Vestryman being Personally summoned
shall without a Lawfull or reasonable Excuse Absent himselfe
under the Penalty of such fine or Mulct as the residue of the
said Vestry meeting shall Lay upon them, soe as the same
never Exceeds One hundred pounds of Tob^o and upon default
or neglect in such Principall Vestryman as is before menconed
to Sumon a Vestry when there is need for one, and he is there-
unto requested any other Three of the Vestry or if there shall
happen by any Occident To be but Two of the said Vestry,
beside the prinicipall Vestryman resideing in the said Parish,
such Three or Two shall have power and Authority To Sumon
and Appoint a Vestry to be holden: And all such omission
and neglects to be noted in the Vestrys Reg^r of proceedings
And any forfeiture thereby incur'd to be recovered in his
Matyes name and the said severall and respective Vestrys are
hereby further Enjoyned That where there is not Tables of
Marriages already put up in theire respective Parish Churches,
with all convenient Speed, and within Six moneths at the most
To procure a faire Table of Marriages Transcribed and sett

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up In theire respective Churches, and the same keep continu-
ally in their said Churches and persons being thereby informed
what Marriages are forbidden may avoyd the contracting of
any such unlawfull marriages. And that the said Vestrymen
& the rest of the Inhabitants of every Parish being free holders

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