30.  The Storehouses shall be every man’s subsistence, and not any ones.

31.  No man shall either give hire or take hire for his work; for this brings in Kingly Bondage.  If any Freeman want help, there are young people, or such as are common servants, to do it by the Overseer’s appointment.  He that gives and he that hires for work, shall both lose their freedom and become Servants for twelve months under the Task-master.

LAWS FOR NAVIGATION.

32.  Because other Nations as yet own Monarchy, and will buy and sell, therefore it is convenient for the peace of our Commonwealth, that our ships do transport our English goods and exchange for theirs, and conform to the customs of other Nations in buying and selling:  Always provided that what goods our ships carry out, they shall be the Commonwealth’s goods; and all their trading with other Nations shall be upon the Common Stock, to enrich the Storehouses.

LAWS FOR SILVER AND GOLD.

33.  As Silver and Gold is either found out in mines in our own Land, or brought by shipping from beyond Sea, it shall not be coined with a Conqueror’s stamp upon it, to set up buying and selling under his name, or by his leave.  For there shall be no other use for it in the Commonwealth than to make dishes and other necessaries for the ornament of houses, as now there is use made of brass, pewter and iron, or any other metal in their use.  But in case other Nations whose commodities we want, will not exchange with us unless we give them money, then pieces of silver and gold may be stamped with the Commonwealth’s Arms upon them, for the same use and no otherwise.

For where money bears all the sway, there is no regard of that Golden Rule, “Do as you would be done by.”  Justice is bought and sold; nay, Injustice is sometimes bought for money; and it is the cause of all wars and oppressions.  Certainly the Righteous Spirit of the Whole Creation did never enact a Law that his weak and simple men should go from England to the East Indies and fetch silver and gold to bring in their hands to their bretheren, and give it them for their good-will to let them plant the Earth, and live and enjoy their livelihood therein.

LAWS TO CHOOSE OFFICERS.

34.  All Overseers and State Officers shall be chosen new every year, to prevent the rise of Ambition and Covetousness.  For the Nations have smarted sufficiently by suffering Officers to continue long in an Office, or to remain in an Office by hereditary succession.

35.  A man who is of a turbulent spirit, given to quarrelling and provoking words to his neighbor, shall not be chosen any Officer while he so continues.

36.  All men of twenty years of age upwards shall have freedom of voice to choose Officers, unless they be such as lie under sentence of the Law.