Religion conformable to the Synod of Dordrecht shall be maintained, without suffering any other Sects attempting any thing contrary thereto. 2.

The Schout shall be present at all Meetings and preside there, unless the Honble. Heer Governour or some person appointed by him be present who then shall preside, when the Schout shall rank next below the youngest acting Burgomaster. But whensoever the Schout acts as Prosecutor on behalf of Justice or otherwise, having made his complaint, he shall then rise up and absent himself

from the Bench during the deciding of the case.

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3. All matters appertaining to the Police, Security, and Peace of the Inhabitants, also to Justice between man and man, shall be determined by final Judgment by the Schout, Burgomasters and

Schepens aforesaid to the amount of Fifty Beavers and under, but in all cases exceeding that sum, each one shall be at liberty to appeal to the Heer Governour General &, Council here. All Criminal offences which shall be committed within this City and the Jurisdiction thereof shall be amenable to the Judicature of said Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens who shall have 4.

power to judge and sentence the same even unto Death inclusive provided and on condition, that no sentence of corporal punishment shall be executed unless the approval of the Heer Governour General and Council shall be first sought and obtained therefor. 5. The Court shall be convoked by the President Burgomaster who shall, the night before, make the same known to Capt. Willem Knyif, (who is hereby provisionally qualified and authorized to be present at and preside over the Court in the name and on the behalf of the H r Governour,) and so forth to the remaining Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens. ;