[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 said offences shall appear to merit.

[Sidenote:  Schools for young negroes.]

18.  And be it enacted, that for every two districts a school shall be established for young negroes to be taught three days in the week, and to be detained from their owner four hours in each day, the number not to be more or fewer than twenty males in each district, who shall be chosen, and vacancies filled, by the minister of the district; and the said minister shall pay to the owner of the said boy, and shall be allowed the same in his accounts at the synod, to the age of twelve years old, three-pence by the day, and for every boy from twelve years old to fifteen, five-pence by the day.

[Sidenote:  Extraordinary abilities to be encouraged.]