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5. You shall suffer no Law to Pass, that introduces the
Statutes of England in the Gross.
6. You are to Pass no Act of Assembly by which the Pro-
vision that is made for the Clergy in an Act Intituled An
Act for the Establishment of Religious Worship may be
taken away, nor are you to Suffer any Act to Pass for divid-
ing or dismembring any Parish of the Province by which the
Incumbents may unjustly lose their Income Profits or Pro-
vision made for the Clergy, on Account of such taking away
or giving to others during the Lives of the Incumbents for
the time being without such Incumbent or Incumbents Con-
sent; And you are to Suffer no Private Act to Pass without
Notice being first given to the Persons Concerned and In-
terested & liberty given them to make their Defence, nor no
Private Act to be Passed in which there is not a Saving of
the Rights of me and my Heirs and all Bodies Politick and
Corporate and all other Persons not Named in the said Act.
7. And whereas great Mischiefs may arise by Passing
Bills of an unusual and Extraordinary Nature and Impor-
tance which Bills Remain in force from the time of Enacting
them untill my Pleasure be Signified to the Contrary; I do
hereby will and require you not to Pass or give your Consent
for any Bill or Bills in the Assembly of Our said Province of
Unusual and Extraordinary Nature and Importance wherein
my Charter Prerogative or Property of his Majestys Sub-
jects and my Good Tenants may be Prejudiced without hav-
ing either first Transmitted unto me the draught of such Bill
or Bills and having Signified my Pleasure thereupon; or that
you take Care in the Passing of any Act of an unusual and
Extraordinary Nature that there be a Clause incerted therein
Suspending and Deferring the Execution thereof until my
Pleasure be known concerning the said Act To the End my
Charter Prerogatives may not Suffer and that his Majestys
Subjects may not have reason to Complain of Hardships put
upon them on the like Occasions.
8. You are to Observe in the Passing of all Laws that
what ever may be requisite upon each different Matter be
accordingly Provided for by a different Law without inter-
mixing with one and the same Act such things as have no
Proper Relation to Each other, and you are more Especially
to take Care that no Clause or Clauses be incerted in or an-
nexed to any Act which shall be foreign to what the Title of
such Act Imports and that no perpetual Clause be Part of any
Temporary Law, and that no Act whatsoever be Suspended
Altered Revived Confirmed or Repealed by General Words
but that the Title and Date of such Act so suspended, Altered,
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