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Page 552
... authority and with unwarrantable freedom . Whether there was any just cause for this violence , I must submit to your Excellency , for all this wrath was excited or pretended to 66 be excited only by their reply to his argument 552 ...
... authority and with unwarrantable freedom . Whether there was any just cause for this violence , I must submit to your Excellency , for all this wrath was excited or pretended to 66 be excited only by their reply to his argument 552 ...
Page 564
... authority of the Magis- tracy . The next day , being Sunday , a letter was wrote to the Custom House officers , threatening destruction , if they did not clear out vessels as usual , deliver up all the money & notes , they had taken for ...
... authority of the Magis- tracy . The next day , being Sunday , a letter was wrote to the Custom House officers , threatening destruction , if they did not clear out vessels as usual , deliver up all the money & notes , they had taken for ...
Page 598
... authority was unde- niably the means of taking our property from us , it cannot be taken amiss if we think justice , reason , and good con- science require that the same influence should be used in restoring a part of it at least back ...
... authority was unde- niably the means of taking our property from us , it cannot be taken amiss if we think justice , reason , and good con- science require that the same influence should be used in restoring a part of it at least back ...
Page 625
... authority of no Government could control . Associations have been formed , Committees have been appointed to examine the conduct of those who have en- gaged in them and goods imported into America have been re - shipped . But , my Lord ...
... authority of no Government could control . Associations have been formed , Committees have been appointed to examine the conduct of those who have en- gaged in them and goods imported into America have been re - shipped . But , my Lord ...
Page 626
... authority & permission . 14. Directions forbidding acts of Assembly altering the number & qualifica- tions of members or duration of the Assembly . 15. Members of Assembly protected from arrest of person during session only . 16. Rules ...
... authority & permission . 14. Directions forbidding acts of Assembly altering the number & qualifica- tions of members or duration of the Assembly . 15. Members of Assembly protected from arrest of person during session only . 16. Rules ...
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Page 631 - Act passed in the first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first, intituled " An Act for the further security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors...
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Page 639 - Commissioners for Trade and plantations, and duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance; in which Books shall be specified, every particular Sum raised or Disposed of together with the Names of the persons to whom any payment shall be made, to the End We may be satisfied of the Right and due application of the Revenue...