Provincial and State Papers, Volume 2

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Page 13 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 59 - We do hereby authorize and empower you to constitute and appoint Judges, and in cases requisite Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary Officers and Ministers in Our said Province, for the better administration of Justice, and putting the Laws in execution...
Page 5 - ... for the hearing and determining all causes, as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England...
Page 318 - Huddleston took the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament instead of the oaths of allegiance & supremacy & the oath of an Attorney at Law & did subscribe the test.
Page 259 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 60 - And We do hereby give and grant unto you full Power and Authority where you shall see Cause, or shall judge any offender or offenders in criminal Matters, or for any Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
Page 60 - Sum or Value appealed for do exceed the sum of three hundred pounds Sterling, and that Security be first duly given by the Appellant to Answer such Charges as shall be awarded in Case the first Sentence be affirmed...
Page 369 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...

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