A Source Book in American History to 1787

Act XXXV.--Be it also enacted and confirmed, for the better observation

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of the Sabbath, that no person or persons shall take a voyage[22] upon the same, except it be to church, or for other cause of extreme necessitie, upon the penalty of the forfeiture for such offense of twenty pounds of tobacco, being justly convicted for the same.

(5) [_October, 1644._]