Jewish nor idolatrous), but vigilantly and vigorously protected
and defended in the enjoyment, practice, and profession of the
same. And if there be officers or auditors appointed by any such
congregation for the introduction of causes into the Council of
Religion, all such causes so introduced shall be received, heard,
and determined by the same, with recourse had, if need be, to the
Senate.

"Thirdly, every petition addressed to the Senate, except that
of a tribe, shall be received, examined, and debated by this
council; and such only as they, upon such examination and debate
had, shall think fit, may be introduced into the Senate.

"The Council of Trade being the vena porta of this nation,
shall hereafter receive instructions more at large. For the
present, their experience, attaining to a right understanding of
those trades and mysteries that feed the veins of this
commonwealth, and a true distinction of them from those that suck
or exhaust the same, they shall acquaint the Senate with the
conveniences and inconveniences, to the end that encouragement
may be applied to the one, and remedy to the other.

"The Academy of the provosts, being the affability of the
commonwealth, shall assemble every day toward the evening in a
fair room, having certain withdrawing-rooms thereto belonging;
and all sorts of company that will repair thither for
conversation or discourse, so it be upon matters of government,
news, or intelligence, or to propose anything to the councils,
shall be freely and affably received in the outer chamber, and
heard in the way of civil conversation, which is to be managed