Ministers and church wardens were to prevent immorality by good admonitions and mild reproof," but sinners who persisted in their evil ways were to be presented for trial, and punished according to their offences. Continued persistence in their "'enormous sins" was to be punished by ex-communication.
For drunkenness the culprit ("if a private person'') was ta be reproved by the minister—privately for the first offence, publicly for the second. For the third he was to "lie in bolts twelve hours in the house of the provost marshal, and pay his fee.'' If an officer "'offend in this crime,' private rebuke for the first offence should come from the Governor himself; for the second, reproof from the minister should be delivered ''openly in the church."' For the third, the offend der should be thrown into jail and deprived of his rank. Against gaming with dice and cards" it was enacted that "the winner or winners shall lose all his or their winnings."' Both winners and losers were to be fined ten shillings each, '"'one ten shillings whereof was to go to the discoverer and the rest to pious uses."
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