444 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 22

Potentate, to be had or used within his Majesty's Dominions, or shall
do any overt Act to that Intent or Purpose, and every of them shall
be, to all Intents and Purposes, adjudged to be a Traytor or Traytors,
and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall have Judgment, suffer
and forfeit, as in Case of High-Treason. And if any Person, now
being a Protestant, of the Age of Eighteen Years, or upwards, shall,
after the End of this Session of Assembly, by any Means be willingly
absolved, or withdrawn, as aforesaid, or willingly be reconciled, or
shall promise any Obedience to any such pretended Authority, Prince,
State, or Potentate, as is aforesaid, that then every such Person,
their Procurers and Counsellors thereunto, being thereof lawfully
convicted, shall be taken, tried, and adjudged, and shall suffer and
forfeit as in Case of High-Treason.
And be it likewise Enacted and Declared, That all and every
Person and Persons that shall wittingly be Aiders or Maintainers
of such Persons, so offending, as is above expressed, or any of them
knowing the same, or who shall conceal any Offence as aforesaid,
and shall not, within Three Months at the farthest, after such Per-
son's Knowledge of such Offence, disclose the same to some Provin-
cial Justice, or Justice of the Peace of the County where such Offence
shall be committed, shall be taken, tried and adjudged, and shall

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suffer and forfeit, as Offenders in Misprision of Treason.
And be it further Enacted, That all and every Person and Persons
that shall offend, contrary to this present Branch of this Act, shall
be indicted, tried and proceeded against, by and before the Jus-
tices of Assize and Goal Delivery of that County, for the Time being,
where he or they shall be apprehended and taken up, or before the
Justices of the Provincial Court of this Province, and be there pro-
ceeded against according to the Laws and Statutes of England
against Traitors, as if the same Offence had been committed
in the same County where such Person or Persons shall be so
taken; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary, in any wise,
notwithstanding.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if
any Popish Priest or Jesuit, who shall hereafter intermarry any
Protestant Man with a Popish Woman, and shall, before or after
such Intermarriage, by any Ways and Means whatsoever (in order
to gain and make Converts to the Romish Religion) engage, seduce,
and persuade, or endeavour to engage, seduce, or persuade, such
Protestant Man, to make any Promise or Assurance to the said
Popish Priest or Jesuit, or to the said Papist Woman, to bring up,
train, and educate, such Children, or any of them, in the Romish
Religion, as he the said Protestant Man shall beget of her the said
Papist Woman, he the said Popish Priest or Jesuit, shall forfeit and
pay, for every such Offence, and being convicted thereof, the Sum of
One Hundred Pounds Currency.