Note 109 — Chapter I

Minutes of Provincial Council, May 24, 1693, 1 Colonial Records, 379, 380. Penn under date of 25, 7 mo. 1689, instructed Deputy Governor Blackwell “to collect ye Laws that are in Being, and send them over to me in a sticht book, by ye ffirst opportunity, which I have so often and so much in vaine desired.” I Pennsylvania Archives (4th Series), 106; 1 Colonial Records, 276, 2, 11 mo. 1689-90. It would seem that Penn had contemplated periodic revisions of the whole code, 1 Colonial Records, 42, 24, 1 mo. 1684; 151-2, 1, 2 mo. 1687; letter of Penn to Council, Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Vol. 33, 308; Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1683, Charter and Laws of Pennsylvania, 155.