Proposals concerning public health for the colony of Massachusetts:
“Court, considering
the cruel and malignant spirit that has from time to time been manifest in the
Irish nation against the English nation, do hereby declare their prohibition of
bringing any Irish, men, women, or children, into this jurisdiction, on the
penalty of £50 sterling to each inhabitant who shall buy of any merchant,
shipmaster, or other agent any such person or persons so transported by them;
which fine shall be by the country's marshall levied on conviction of some
magistrate or court, one-third to be to the use of the informer, and two-thirds
to the country. This act to be in force six months after the publication of
this order.
“October 29,
1654.”
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