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Using the following image, name which resource was so essential to the colony that it was protected in the very first page of
Laws
A Judges
B Boats
I all
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Laws of the Plymouth Bay Colony, Volume 11: Laws, 1623 to 1682 the excerpt is on page 23-24.
Timber
(D) Juries
* Orders agreed on at feverall times for the Gen- [PART 1]
erall good of the Colony and the Better goverment "2
and prefervation of the fame.
was ordained 17 day of Decemb" An 1623 by the Court]' then held
E Houses
betweene man man should [be tried] by the verdict of twelve Honest
men to be Impanelled by Authority in forme of a Jury upon their oaths.
It was decreed by the Court held the 29 of March An: 1626: That
for the preventing of such inconveniences as do may befall the plantation
by the want of Timber. That no man of what condition soever sell or
transport any mañer of works as frames for houses planks boards shipping
shallops boats cannoos or whatsoever may tend to the distruction of timber
afores how little soever the quantity be without the Consent approbation