Every male person shall have his hair cut round according to a cap.
A child over sixteen years old who strikes his father shall be put to death.
A child over sixteen years old who is stubborn and rebellious shall be put to death.
Whoever, professing the Christian religion, shall wittingly deny the Song of Solomon to be the infallible word of God, may be whipped forty lashes and fined fifty pounds.
Whoever marries two wives or more shall be executed.
Saying that the Christian religion is a politic device to keep ignorant men in awe shall be punished with death.
Any man who uses tobacco in the street shall be fined, or if he do so in his own house, a stranger being present, he shall be fined, but if on a journey, five miles from any house, he may smoke.
Any single person without a servant, wishing to keep house by himself, must get the consent of the selectmen unless he be a public officer.
Persons not proved guilty, but lying under a strong suspicion of guilt, may be punished, though not so severely as would be the case had they been convicted.
Every family must have a Bible, catechism and other good books.