1.  First, because sick persons are received in the said hospital, who are not of the character and station entitling them to admission, many annoyances result; for some of them are wealthy, and others are servants of certain persons from whom they receive pay and wages.  By receiving these persons into the hospital, contrary to right, they occupy the places and beds which more properly should belong to his Majesty’s poor soldiers, the workmen of this colony, and the other poor, for whom hospitals are chiefly established.  And, that there may be system in this, and that expense to the hospital may be avoided, and so that the expense incurred be for those persons whose due it is, he ordained and ordered that, now and henceforth, the hours for receiving sick persons shall be from six in the morning until five in the afternoon; and that the head chaplain, or his substitute, and the physician or physicians who may be there, and the steward, surgeon, and nurse of the said hospital be present at the entrance and reception of patients.  These he ordered and commanded not to receive any sick except workmen or paid soldiers of this colony, paid sailors, and the sick and needy poor; there is no restriction on the admission of such, whether they are servants of the king or not.  In case any sick person is received without the previous order and consultation above-mentioned (unless some of the said hospital officials are lawfully prevented), or if the sick person belongs to the classes who ought not to be received, then he who shall have received him shall incur and bear the penalty of paying all the expenses incurred by the hospital for such sick person.

2. Item:  It is ordained that, when a sick person is received, his name shall be taken down, with the date and hour of his entrance.  He shall come confessed, or shall confess immediately; shall declare whether he is married or single, and whether he has father or mother; and an inventory shall be made of the possessions and clothes that he brings to the hospital—­so that, when he comes to leave the hospital, his property and that of the said hospital may be known.  And if the property should have to be used for the repose of his soul, or left to any other heir, the same consideration and account must be observed.

3.  In order that this be observed with rigor and care, a book of accounts shall be kept, wherein shall be entered, by day and hour, the names of the sick who are received, and the exit of those who leave or die, since all the wealth of the hospital consists in allowances and income.

4.  Likewise, in order that there may be greater neatness and order, there shall be a numbered wardrobe, in which shall be kept the clothes of the hospital, and the clean and reserve clothes, respectively—­the blankets being kept in one place, the sheets and the other white clothes in another, and the bandages to be used for wounds and sores in another.  Great care must be taken in this division; and it is very