Oaths.

and within the Town of H. and the Limits thereof; and that you
will endeavour to preferve the public Peace of the faid Place and
this State; and will do your beft Endeavours to fee all Watches
and Wards executed and daly attended; and obey and execute
all lawful Commands and Warrants that come from any Magiftrate
or Magiftrates, Juftice of the Peace, or Court; and execute all
fuch Orders of Court as fhall be committed to your Care accor.
ding to your best Skill.
So help you GOD.

18.

For Deputy-Sheriffs, viz.

You fwear, that you will truly and

A. B. being appointed a Deputy-Sheriff within

faithfully Difcharge the Duties of faid Office, during the Time you fhall continue therein; and that you will not write or fill up any Writ or Writs against any Perfon or Perfons whatsoever, except you are a Party in the Action, nor caufe the fame to be wrote or filled up, or direct any Perfon therein.

So help you GOD. For the Clerks of the Superior and County Courts, mutatis mutan

dis, viz.

19. VOU A. B. being appointed to be Clerk of the Superior Court, do fwear that you will carefully, faithfully, and diligently attend and execute the Place and Office of fuch a Clerk: That you will truly enter and record all Actions, Verdicts, Sentences, Orders and Determinations of the faid Court, and deliver true Copies when they fhall be required of you, taking no more than your lawful Fees therefor: And that you will perform and execute your Office, and Duty therein according to the best of your Skill, and the Laws of this State.

20.

So help you

GOD.

For the Clerks of the Courts of Probate, viz. YOU A. B. being appointed to be Clerk of the Court of Probates in the District of H. do fwear that you will carefully, faithfully, and diligently attend and exe cute the Place and Office of fuch a Clerk; and that you will truly record all Wills and Inventories as fhall be exhibited into faid Court, and by faid Court be ordered to be recorded; as also all Orders, Sentences and Determinations of faid Court; and deliver true Copies when they fhall be required of you, taking only your lawful Fees therefor; and that you will perform and execute your Office, and Duty therein according to the best of your Skill, and So help you GOD.

the Laws of this State.

21.

For Town Clerks, viz.

Yerk of Resiter of the Town of H. do fwear that

U A. B. being chofen and appointed to be Town

you will truly and faithfully attend and execute the Place and Clerks Town. Office of a Town-Clerk for the faid Town of H. according to your

best Skill; and make true Entries of all fuch Grants, Deeds of Sale, or of Gift, Town Votes, Mortgages and Alienations or Difpofitions of Land as fhall be compleated according to Law; and of all Births, Deaths and Marriages; and of all other Writings and Agreements as fhall be brought to you to record; and you

will deliver true Copies of the Records in your Hands when they fhall be required of you, taking only your lawful Fees,

22.

that

For Packers, viz.

So help you GOD.

YOU A. B. being chofen and appointed to be Packer of

Beef, Pork and other Goods, for the Town of H. do fwear, that you will well and truly Pack all Beef, Pork and other Goods and Commodities when you fhall be thereto required; will you pack no kind of Goods or Provifions but fuch as are good, found, fortable and merchantable, nor in any Cask that is not full Gage; and that you will fet your own particular Mark upon all Cafk packed by you; and all things proper to your Place and Office of Packer you fhall faithfully perform and discharge according to your beft Skill, Judgement and Confcience.

So help you GOD. For Fence Viewers, Leather-Sealers, Guagers, Sealers of Weights and Meafures, Lifters, Tything-men, Surveyors of High-ways, Surveyors and Packers of Tobacco, Haywards, Town Treafurers, Society Treasurers, Scavengers, Commiffioners of Sewers, Clerks of the Owners of Sheep, &c. mutatis mutandis.

Packers.

23. YoFor OU fwear that you will diligently and faithfully perform, discharge, and execute the Office of within Fence Viewthe Limits whereto you are appointed for the Year enfuing, and ers, &c. until another be chofen in your Place and sworn; and that in all the Particulars mentioned in the Law's whereto your Office hath Relation, you will do therein impartially according to Law, without Fear or Favour.

So help you GOD.

For Attornies, viz. 24. Yout -fwear you will do no Falfhood, nor consent to any to be done, in the Court; and if you know of any to be done, you fhall give Knowledge thereof, to the Judges, or Juftices of the Court, or fome of them that it may be reformed: You fhall not wittingly or willingly promote, fue or procure to be fued any falfe and unlawful Suit, nor give Aid or Consent to the fame: You fhall delay no Man for Lucre or Malice; but you fhall use yourself in the Office of an. Attorney within the Court according to the beft of your Learning and Difcretion, and with all good Fidelity, as well to the Court as to the Client. So help you GOD. For the Auditors of the State's Accounts, viz.

boo

Attornies.

State Audit,

25. YOU 4. 3. and C. D. being by this Affembly appointed to audit the public Accompts with the State Treasurer, and likewife to receive of faid Treasurer what Money hath been brought into the State Treasury by Rates, Fines, Impofts, ors. or other Ways, and the fame to difpofe of as this Affembly fhall order, do fwear by the Name of the Everliving God, that you will in the whole of faid Affair, diligently, and faithfully attend faid Service; and that you will duly and faithfully difpofe of what Money you fhall receive, as abovefaid, of the Treasurer, according to the Order of this Affembly now given, or to be given you... rendering a true Account to this Affembly of your Doings, rela ing to the Premifes So help you GOD.

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26. Yo

Oaths.

For Society Clerks, viz.

OU A. B. being chofen and appointed Clerk of this Society, do fwear that you will truly and faithfully attend and execute the Place and Office of a Society Clerk for the Society Clerks faid Society, according to your best Skill: And make true Entry of all fuch Votes as fhall be made by faid Society according to Law; and deliver true Copies when they shall be required of you, taking only your juft Fees. So help you GOD.

Land.

For Appraifers of Lands, viz.
You being appointed to appraise fuch Lands as

are

27. now to be prefented to you, Do fwear, that all Partiality, Prejudice, and other finifter Respects laid afide, you will Appraisers of appraise the faid Lands according to the present true and juft Val ue thereof to the Creditor, or Creditors who are to receive the fame; and that you will do therein according to your beft Judg ment, and Confcience. So help you GOD. For Appraifers of deceafed Perfons Eftates, viz. A. B.- Do fwear, that all Partiality, Prejudice, and finifter Refpects laid afide, you will appraise all fuch Eftate, both real and perfonal, of the deceafed C. D. as fhall be offered unto you, according to the prefent true, and just Value thereof in Money, by your beft Judgment, and Confcience. So help you GOD. For Diftributors of Eftates, viz.

Appraisers of deceafeds' Eltates.

Distributors.

Jury Highways.

Jury forceable Entry.

28.

29.

YOU

OU fwear that you will according to your beft Jud. ment, and Difcretion, faithfully and equally divide the Eftate of A. B. according to the order of Court now given you.

YOU

So help you GOD. For the Jury to lay out, or alter Highways, viz. 30. OU fwear by the Name of the Everliving GOD, that you will lay out the Way mentioned in the Precept by which you are now fummoned, according to the beft of your Skill and Judgment; with moft Convenience to the Public, and leaft Prejudice to any particular Perfon or Perfons; and that you will make a juft Estimation of the Damages done to the Property of any particular Perfon or Perfons by your laying faid Way, according to your beft Judgment. So help you God. For the Jury to enquire into forceable Entry or Detainer, viz. OU fwear by the Name of the Everliving GOD, that you will well and truly enquire of the forceable Entry, or forceable Detainer now complained of, and return a true Verdict thereof, according to your own View and the Evidence given you in Court. So help you GOD.

31.

YOU

32. γου

For County Surveyors, viz.

YOU A. B. being appointed Surveyor of Lands in the County of H. do fwear that you will faithfully attend County Sur. to, and discharge your Office of Surveyor of Lands unto which you are appointed, without Favour or Refpect of Perfons; taking only your juft Fees, as by Law allowed.

veyors.

So help you GOD.

For Chain-Men affifting the County Surveyor, viz. 33. YOU 4. B. and C. D. being defired to affift T. C. Sur

A.

veyor, in carrying the Chain, do fwear by the Ever- Chain-men. living God, that you will faithfully affift the faid Surveyor in his Service: And that you will keep a true Account of all Lines or Measures by you taken, and the fame give up to faid Surveyor at his Defire, according to your best Skill and Ability.

So help you GOD.

For Commiffioners on Infolvent Eftates, viz.

34. YOU fwear that you will faithfully and impartially examine the feveral Accounts, and Claims of the Credit

ers of the Estate of the deceased A. B. represented insolvent, as Commiffion-
fhall be prefented to you for that Purpose, with the Evidences re- ers on infol
lative thereto, and make a true Lift of what you find justly due to vent Eftates.
each of faid Creditors, and present the fame to the Judge of the
Court of Probate, according to Law.

So help you GOD.
Form of a Voire Dire Oath, viz.

35. YOU fwear that you will well and truly answer to such Interrogatories as fhall be put to you by the Court, Voire Dire. not immediately relating to the Merits of the Caufe now in QuelSo help you GOD.

tion.

or ceremony

36. And be it further enacted, That no Perlon fhall be compelled, or obliged to take any Oath, but fuch as the General Court hath confidered, allowed, and required; nor to use any other No other oath Ceremony in taking their Oaths refpectively, than the holding up required. the Hand, as hath been accustomed. And when any Oath fhall be administered to any of the People called Quakers, it shall be by way of Affirmation, in Manner and Form preferibed in the Law relative to Quakers.

An Act for regulating the Market and ascertaining the
Weight of Bunches of Onions.

ENACTED IN MAY 1760.]

WHEREAS there are great Quantities of Onions raifed in this Preamble. State for Market, and it is become customary to make up the greatest Part of them in Ropes or Bunches; and no Rule hath been fixed for the Number, Weight, or Meafure contained in each Bunch; for want of which great Inequality and Injustice hath happened.

For Remedy whereof,

Binerited in General Court affembled, That no of
E it enacted by the Governor and Council, and Houfe of Repre-

be offered to Sale, that are not good and merchantable, well cu-
red and dry. Nor fhall any Bunches of them be fold, or offered
to Sale, or put into Land or Water Carriage, to be tranfported to
Market, that are not fully cured, well and firmly bunched, and of
Four Pounds and a Half Weight at leaft. And whoever fhall fell,
or offer to Sale, or put into any Land or Water Carriage, in or-
der to be tranfported to Market, any Bunch or Bunches of Onions,
that fhall not be fully cured,dry,well and firmly bunched,and of the

Onions to

weigh 4 lb.

per Bunch.

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Forfeiture.

Preamble.

Perfons guilty

of oppreffion to forfeit &c.

Oppreffion. Peace.

Weight aforesaid, shall forfeit each Bunch of Onions so offered or put up for Sale, as aforefaid, that shall fall fhort of Weight as aforefaid, or the Value thereof, to be recovered to him who fhall complain thereof, and profecute the fame to Effect.

An Act for punishing and preventing Oppreffion.
WHEREAS Oppreffion is a mifchievous Evil, to which Men are
prone in their Trade and Dealings.
Therefore,

1.

PAR.
Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, That
if any Perfon or Perfons, fuch as Merchants, Shop-Keepers, Tra-
ders, Victuallers, or Handy-Crafts-Men ; as Smiths, Shoe-Makers,
Carpenters, Joiners, Tavlors, Weavers; or other Trades-Men of
Labourers whatfoever, fhall opprefs any Perfon or Persons, by de-
manding or taking exceffive Wages for Work; or unreasonable
Prices for fuch Wares, Merchandizes, or Commodities as fhall
pass from Man to Man, he or they fo offending fhall forfeit and
pay to the party injured, a Penalty according to the Quality of the
Offence, as the Court before whom the Conviction fhall be made
fhall determine; not exceeding Three-fold the Damage fuftained
by fuch Oppreffion.

B E it enacted by the Governor and Council, and Houfe of

2. And for a Mode of Trial and Proceeding therein.

Be it further enacted, That when any Perfon or Perfons, fhall make Complaint of Oppreffion done by any other Perfon or Perfons, in any of the Matters aforefaid; the Authority to Mode of trial. whom fuch Complaint fhall be made, fhall appoint and call before him or them Two or Three indifferent, judicious Freeholders, of the fame Town the Perfon is of, who is complained of; who fhall be fworn to give their Judgment and Opinion concerning the Price of fuch Goods, Wares or Commodities fold, or Labour done; and return the fame to faid Authority: Which Judgment and Opinion shall be the Ground of legal Conviction."

Penalty.

Cofts.

3. And where the Penalty doth not exceed the Sum triable by an Affiftant or Juftice of the Peace, fuch Authority is hereby empowered to hear and determine the fame: But if the Penalty be above that Sum, the Perfon offending fhall be recognized to appear and answer fuch Complaint at the next County Court, which Court fhall hear and determine the fame.

4. And the Offender on Conviction, fhall pay the Cofts of Profecution, befides the Penalty to be awarded as aforefaid.

An Act against breaking the Peace.

PAR. 1. Beprefentatives, in General Court affembled, That

Eit enacted by the Governor and Council, and Houfe of