Excerpt from An Ordinance for Promoting the Religious Instruction and Bettering the State and Condition of the Slave Population in His Majesty's Colony on BerbiceAnd it is hereby further ordered, that every Clergyman of the Established Church of England and Ireland; and e'ver'y'hlinister of the'dutch'rcformed Church, and Lutheran Church, and of the Kirk ofscotland, and every Priest or'mini'ster professing the Roman this colony, and every other. Person being'a Licensed Teacher of Re ligion within this colony, shall, and is hereby authorised and required to deliver or transmit to the Protector or Deputy Protector of Slaves (as the case may be), at his office in New. Amsterdam, or to the Assistant Protector of'slaves of the districts in which they may bere 'eident, certificates setting forth the names or name, and places oriplace ofabode, ofany slaves or-slave who, in the 1udgmeut and belief oi'the party so certifying, may be sufficiently ia structed in the principles of religion to understand-the nature and obligation of an oath, and I-the said Protectorycn Deputy Protector, and Assistant Protectors or Slaves in the several districts of the colony, -shall, and are hereby required to register the same in a bookie-be.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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