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<HEAD>At A <HI>GENERAL COURT</HI> Held at Bo&s;ton, in the Year <GAP DESC="blank"></HEAD>
<P>_JT is Ordered by this Court and the Authority thereof, that the following Order &s;hall be directed and &s;ent by the Clerks of the &s;everal Shire Courts, to the Con&s;tables of the To was within their Shire, who are enjoyned faith|fully to Execute the &s;ame; and if upon the Return made, it doth appear that the Select men are negligent in ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">cuting the Laws therein mentioned, the Court &s;hall proceed again&s;t them by Admonition, or Fine, as the merit of the ca&s;e may require and &s;hall al&s;o di&s;po&s;e of &s;ingle per&s;ons, &s;tubborn Children or Servants to the hou&s;e of Cor|rection, according to the in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ent of the Law, any Law, Cu&s;tome of U&s;age to the con|trary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Con&s;table of <GAP DESC="blank"></HEAD>
<P><HI>VVHereas the Law publi&s;hed by the Honoured Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">al Court</HI> Lib. 1. Page 67, Sect. 3. <HI>Do require all Towns from time to time, to di&s;po&s;e of all &s;ingle per&s;ons and in-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ates within their Towns to &s;ervice, or otherwi&s;e, and in</HI> page 16. tit. <HI>Child|ren and Youth.</HI> <GAP DESC="blank"> It is Required of the Select men, that they &s;ee that all Children and You<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h, under Fam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ly Government, be taught to Read perfectly the Engli&s;h Tongue, have knowledge in the Gapital Lawes, and be taught &s;ome Orthodox Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ec<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;m, and that they be brought up to &s;ome hone&s;t imployment, profitable to them&s;elves and the Common wealth; and in ca&s;e of neglect on the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rt of the Family Governours, after Admonition given them, the &s;aid Select men are required, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">th the help of two Magi&s;trates, or next Cont of that Shire to take &s;uch Children or Apprentices from them, and place them forth, with &s;uch as will look more &s;traitly to them.</P>
<P><HI>The neglect whereof, as by &s;ad experience from Court to Court abundantly appears doth occa&s;ion m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ch &s;in and prophane&s;s to increa&s;e among us, to the di&s;honour of God, and the en&s;naring of many Children and Servants, by the di&s;&s;olute lives and practi&s;es of &s;uch as do live from under Family Government, and is a great di&s;couragement to tho&s;e Family Governours, who con&s;cientiou&s;ly endeavour to bring up their Youth in all Chri&s;tian nurture, as the Laws of</HI> God <HI>and this Common wealth doth require:</HI></P>
<P>THe&s;e are therefore in <HI>His Maje&s;tyes Name,</HI> to require you to acquaint the Select men of your Town, that the Court doth expect and will require, that the &s;aid Laws be accordingly attended, the p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">evalancy of the former neglect notwith|&s;tanding: And you are al&s;o required to take a Li&s;t of the Names of tho&s;e young per&s;ons within the Bounds of your Town, and all adjacent Farmes, though out of all Town Bounds, who do live from un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">er Family Government, <HI>viz.</HI> do not &s;erve their P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">eats or Ma&s;ters, as Children, Apprentices, hired Servants, or Journey men ought to do, and u&s;ually did in our Native Country, being &s;ubject to their Commands and Di&s;cipline; and the &s;ame you are to return to the next Court to be held at <GAP DESC="blank"> on the <GAP DESC="blank"> day of <GAP DESC="blank"> and hereof you are to make a true Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> under your hand, and not to &s;ayle.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By the Court, <HI>Ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">d <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;on</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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