(seq. 28)

Laws agreed upon in England by the Governor
and divers of the Freemen of Pennsylvania to be
further explained and confirmed there by the first provincial council and
general assmbly that shall be held in the said province if they see meet
First That the charter of Liberties Declared granted and confirmed
the five and twentieth day of the second Month called April 1682 before
divers Witnesses by William Penn governor and chief Propietor of Pennsyl =
= vania to all the Freemen and (?) of the said province id hereby -
declared and approved and shall be for ever held for a fundamental in
the government thereof according to the limitations mentioned in the said
Charter
Second that every inhabitant in the said province that is or shall
be a purchaser of One hundred acres of land or upwards Hid HeirS
and assigns and every person who shall have paid hid passage and taken up
One hundred acres of Land at one penny an acre and have cultivated ten
acres thereof and every Person that hath been a servant or bondsman
and is free by his service that shall have taken up his fifty acres of Land.
and cultived twenty thereof and every inhabitant artificer or other resident
in the said province that pays scott and lott to the government shall be
deemed and accounted a Freeman of the said Province and every such
Person shall and may be capable of electing or being elected representat=
tives of the people in Provincial council or general assembly in the said
province
Third that all election of Members or Representatives of the
people and freemen of the province of Pennsylvania to serve in provincial
council or general assembly to be held within the said province shall be
Free and voluntary and that the elector that shall recieve any reward or
gift in Meat Drink Monies or otherwise shall forfeit his right to elect and such
person as shall directly or indirectly give promise or bestow any such reward
as foresaid to be elected shall forefeit his election and be thereby incapable to
serve as aforesaid and the provincial council and general assembly shall -
be the sole judges of the regularity or irregularity of the elecions of their
own respective Members
Fourth that no Money or goods shall be raised upon or paid by any
of the people of the Province by way of publick Tax custom or contribution but by
a Law for that purpose made And whosoever shall levy or collect any money or
goods contrary thereto shall be held a publick enemy to the province and a
betrayer of the Liberty of the people thereof.