in towns, within ---- miles distance of any church, nor
within any district during divine service, and an hour preceding and an
hour following the same; and the minister of each parish shall and is
hereby authorized to act as a justice of the peace in enforcing the said
regulation.

[Sidenote: Register of births, burials, and marriages.]

13. And be it enacted, that every minister shall keep a register of
births, burials, and marriages of all negroes and mulattoes in his
district.

[Sidenote: Synod to assemble annually, and to form regulations,]

14. And be it enacted, that the ministers of the several districts shall
meet annually, on the ---- day of ----, in a synod of the island to
which they belong; and the said synod shall have for its president such
person as the Bishop of London shall appoint for his commissary; and the
said synod or general assembly is hereby authorized, by a majority of
voices, to make regulations, which regulations shall be transmitted by
the said president or commissary to the Bishop of London; and when
returned by the Bishop of London approved of, then, and not before, the
said regulations shall be held in force to bind the said clergy, their
assistants, clerks, and schoolmasters only, and no other persons.

[Sidenote: and to report to the Bishop of London.]

15. And be it enacted, that the said president shall collect matter in
the said assembly, and shall make a report of the state of religion and
morals in the several parishes from whence the synod is deputed, and
shall transmit the same, once in the year, in duplicate, through the
governor and protector of negroes, to the Bishop of London.

[Sidenote: Bishop of London to be patron of the cures.]

16. And be it enacted and declared, that the Bishop of London for the
time being patron of the shall be patron to all and every the said
cures in this act directed; and the said bishop is hereby required to
provide for the due filling thereof, and is to receive, from the fund in
this act provided for the due execution of this act, a sum not exceeding
---- for each of the said ministers, for his outfit and passage.

[Sidenote: and to have power of suspending and removing ministers.]

17. And be it enacted, that, on misbehavior, and on complaint from the
said synod, and on hearing the party accused in a plain and summary
manner, it shall and may be lawful for the Bishop of London to suspend
or to remove any minister from his cure, as his