[893] For the Concessions see Smith, Hist. of the Col. of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey, 512 ff.
[894] Later reduced to ten pounds: Acts of the Assembly, 1693, 332.
[895] Leaming and Spicer, Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions, 81, 82 ("Laws in Cartaret's Time").
[896] Cf. Cook, loc. cit., 359; and Linn, Charter and Laws, 101.
[897] "Fundamental Constitutions," sec. xx: in New Jersey Archives, I, 408; and Leaming and Spicer, Grants, etc., 164.
[898] A "Bill for the General Laws of the Province of East New Jersey," March, 1682/83: Leaming and Spicer, op. cit., 236. By this act marriage within the degrees there named is declared void: ibid., 243.
The "Fundamental Constitutions" had provided that there should be a "register in each county for births, marriages, burials, and servants, where their names, times, wages, and days of payment" should be recorded: Leaming and Spicer, op. cit., 163; and already in 1675, under the first proprietors, the "clerk of each town within this Province," in a book provided by the town, is to record "all births, marriages, and deaths" in his district: ibid., 100.
[899] Cook, loc. cit., 359.
[900] See the "concessions" to West New Jersey: in Smith, Hist. of N. J., 521 ff.
[901] Leaming and Spicer, op. cit., 446, 447.