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Page 497
... England Governments are formed on Repub- lican principles , and those principles are zealously incul- cated on their youth , in opposition to the principles of the Constitution of Great Britain . The Government of New York on the ...
... England Governments are formed on Repub- lican principles , and those principles are zealously incul- cated on their youth , in opposition to the principles of the Constitution of Great Britain . The Government of New York on the ...
Page 502
... England , which these Colonies do not relish . Jack Franks has your papers , votes , speeches , and addresses , by which you will in some measure feel the pulse of the House , they are at present squabbling about a Corporation Law that ...
... England , which these Colonies do not relish . Jack Franks has your papers , votes , speeches , and addresses , by which you will in some measure feel the pulse of the House , they are at present squabbling about a Corporation Law that ...
Page 533
... England — and since that time we have had frequently a mutual inter- course both here and at New York . He very deservedly has , from all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance , the character of an agreeable and worthy , Honest man ...
... England — and since that time we have had frequently a mutual inter- course both here and at New York . He very deservedly has , from all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance , the character of an agreeable and worthy , Honest man ...
Page 539
... England . Upon this principle the security of trials by Jury remains unshaken , because matters of fact are left to the Jurors , and are never unravelled on Proceedings in Error . I wish this interpretation was as well grounded , as it ...
... England . Upon this principle the security of trials by Jury remains unshaken , because matters of fact are left to the Jurors , and are never unravelled on Proceedings in Error . I wish this interpretation was as well grounded , as it ...
Page 556
... England ; and in this Province these are better known , and more strictly adhered to , than in any other ; and therefore I cannot imagine , that any practice , so unwarrantable , by any law , or custom in England , as an appeal from the ...
... England ; and in this Province these are better known , and more strictly adhered to , than in any other ; and therefore I cannot imagine , that any practice , so unwarrantable , by any law , or custom in England , as an appeal from the ...
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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...
Page 632 - Kingdoms, as, after the time therein limited, requires the delivery of certain lists and copies, therein mentioned, to persons indicted of high treason or misprision of treason...
Page 631 - ... by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King William the Third...
Page 667 - And whereas by an Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled " An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating abuses in the Plantation Trade...
Page 659 - And you are to take especial Care, that a Table of Marriages established by the Canons of the Church of England...
Page 668 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English...
Page 648 - Council, execution be suspended until the final determination of such appeals, unless good and sufficient security be given by the appellee to make ample restitution of all that the appellant shall have lost by means of such judgment or decree, in case upon the determination of such appeal decree or judgment should be reversed and restitution awarded to the appellant.
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...
Page 641 - Government, whereby Bills of Credit may be struck or issued in lieu of Money, without a Clause be inserted in such Act, declaring that the same shall not take Effect until the said Act shall have been approved and confirmed by Us, Our Heirs or Successors.
Page 644 - An Act for ascertaining the rates of foreign Coins in Her Majesty's Plantations in America...