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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
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that all Estates, Terms, and other Interests whatsoever, to be made,
suffered, or done, to the Use or Behoof of any such Person, or upon
any Trust or Confidence mediately or immediately to or for the
Benefit or Relief of any such Person, shall be utterly void. Pro-
vided always, That if such Child or Person, being of the Age of
Eighteen Years, or above, so passing or sent beyond the Seas as
aforesaid, to such Intent as is beforementioned, shall, within Six
Months next after his Arrival in this Province, become conformable
and obedient unto the Laws and Ordinances of the Church of Eng-
land, and go before some Provincial Justice, or some Justice of the
Peace of the County where he shall arrive or reside, and take the
several Oaths to the Government, appointed to be taken by Act of
Assembly, and subscribe the Test and Oath of Abjuration, and shall
continue in such Conformity and Obedience to all the Ordinances of
the same Church, every such Child and Person, for and during such
Time as he shall so continue in such Conformity and Obedience, shall
be freed and discharged of and from all and every such Disability
and Incapacity as beforementioned.
And be it further Enacted, That every Person or Persons who
shall, from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September next
ensuing, keep any Public or Private School, or Seminary, or teach
and instruct any Youth as Tutor or School-master, within this
Province, without having first taken the Oaths to the Government,
and subscribing the Test and Oath of Abjuration, before some Pro-
vincial or County Magistrate, and also having obtained a Licence
from the Governor or Commander in Chief, for the Time being, and
shall thereof be convicted, upon an Information, Presentment, or
Indictment, in any of his Lordship's Courts of Record within this
Province, or before Justices of Oyer and Terminer, shall and may be
committed to the common Goal of such County where such Con-
viction shall happen, there to remain, without Bail or Main-prize,
for the Space of Three Months, to commence from the Time that
such Person or Persons shall be received into the said Goal. Pro-
vided always, and be it hereby Enacted, That no Licence shall be
granted by the Governor or Commander in Chief, for the Time
being, unless the Person or Persons who shall sue for the same,
shall produce a Certificate of his or their having received the Sacra-
ment, according to the Usage of the Church of England, in some
Parish Church within this Province, within the Space of One Year
next before the Grant of such Licence, under the Hand of the
Minister of the said Parish, and also produce a Certificate that he
hath taken the several Oaths to the Government, appointed by Act of
Assembly to be taken, and hath subscribed the Test and Oath of
Abjuration, from such Magistrate before whom such Oaths were
taken, and such Subscription made.
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