Acts. 275

of this province and the Oath of a Constable in forme follow-
ing (That is to say) You, A. B. shall well and truly Serve our
Sovereign Lord the King in the Office of a Constable you
shall see and Cause that his Majestys peace be well and duly
kept According to your power you shall arrest all such per-
sons as in your presence shall Comitt any riott ffray or other
Breach of his Majestys Peace you shall doe your best En-
deavour upon Complaint to you made to Seize all felons
Barrettors Rioters or persons Riotously Assembled and if
Any such Offend1 shall make any resistance with force you
shall Levy hue and Cry and Cause them to be pursued soe as
they may be taken you shall doe your best Endeavour that
hue and Cry be duly raised and pursued ag^t Murtherers
Thieves or other ffellons and fugitive Servts and the Laws
and orders against Vagabonds and such other Idle persons
Comeing within your Limitts be duly put in Execution att
your County Courts you shall soe farr as in you Lies
Put in Execution the Act of Assembly against Prophane
Curseing Swearing and Drunkenness and alsoe true present-
ment make of all blood Shedds Affrays outcry's rescues and

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other Offences Committed Against his Majesties Peace within
your Limitts you shall well and truly Execute all Precepts and
warrants to you directed from the Justices of the peace of
this County or higher Officers and you shall well and truly
According to your power knowledge and Ability doe and
Execute all things belonging to the Office of a Constable so
long as you shall Continue in this Office — Soe help you God
— and if the person or persons soe Appointed shall before
any Justice of the Peace refuse to take the Severall oaths afd
or shall refuse to Provide a Sufficient person to supply his
place by Serving in the said office and taking the oaths afd
that then such person soe refuseing shall be fined to his
Majesty his heirs and Successors in the Sume of five hundred
pounds of Tob^o towards the Defraying the publick Charge of
that County and that such Justice of Peace before whome such
refusall shall be made shall Issue his Warrant to the Sher. to
Levy the said fine by Distress and Saile of the Goods and
Chattells of such person soe fined as afd returning to him the
Overpluss which said Sher. is hereby Impowered and required
to Levy the same Accordingly and render an Account thereof
to the Justices of Peace of that County att the time of the
laying the County Levy.

p. 106

And be itt Enacted by the Authority afd by and with the
Advice and Consent afd that Every Constable shall on or
before the twentyeth day of June in Every Year respectively
repair in person to Every house or habitation within his

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