The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political ScienceJohn Martin Vincent Johns Hopkins University Press, 1895 |
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... called Temporary Laws of the Proprietors . The second compilation was published by Judge Grimké in 1793 , imme- diately after the refusal of the Assembly to accept the report of the commission appointed in 1785 to digest and codify the ...
... called Temporary Laws of the Proprietors . The second compilation was published by Judge Grimké in 1793 , imme- diately after the refusal of the Assembly to accept the report of the commission appointed in 1785 to digest and codify the ...
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... called Donation of Constantine , but the claim of the various European countries to the soil of North America rested mainly upon discovery and subsequent settlement . ' The most extraordinary part of this doctrine was that the newly ...
... called Donation of Constantine , but the claim of the various European countries to the soil of North America rested mainly upon discovery and subsequent settlement . ' The most extraordinary part of this doctrine was that the newly ...
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... called Lords of the Committee of Trade and Plantations , to which the duties formerly exercised by the Council , with some modifications , were given . ' Feb- ruary 16 , 1689 , this Committee was reduced from twenty- one to twelve and ...
... called Lords of the Committee of Trade and Plantations , to which the duties formerly exercised by the Council , with some modifications , were given . ' Feb- ruary 16 , 1689 , this Committee was reduced from twenty- one to twelve and ...
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... called a meeting of the Council , where his commission was read and recorded and he himself took the oaths of Allegi- ance and Supremacy , signed the Declaration against Tran- substantiation , etc. , as required of all English ...
... called a meeting of the Council , where his commission was read and recorded and he himself took the oaths of Allegi- ance and Supremacy , signed the Declaration against Tran- substantiation , etc. , as required of all English ...
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... called by the Palatine's court on forty days ' notice . * This arrangement was followed in the early years of the colony , but after the reorganization of the government in 1691 Governors were allowed to summon Assemblies at will ...
... called by the Palatine's court on forty days ' notice . * This arrangement was followed in the early years of the colony , but after the reorganization of the government in 1691 Governors were allowed to summon Assemblies at will ...
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Page 42 - Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God...
Page 43 - If you would be wealthy, says he, in another Almanack, think of Saving as well as of Getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes are greater than her Incomes.
Page 51 - I am very sorry, that you intend soon to leave our hemisphere. America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, &c. ; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her.
Page 34 - A Miscellaneous Essay Concerning the Courses pursued by GREAT BRITAIN in the Affairs of her COLONIES : With some observations on the Great Importance of our Settlements in America, and The Trade thereof.
Page 37 - Authority to make Constitute and ordain Laws Statutes and ordinances for the Publick Peace welfare and good Government...
Page 7 - The eggs are laid in the blossom buds of the grape during the latter part of May and the early part of June...
Page 79 - T an adjournment of the court of general sessions of the peace, oyer •*•* and terminer, assize and general goal delivery, held at Charlestown, for the district of Charlestown, on Tuesday the 2$d day of April, 1776, before the Hon.
Page 51 - That it be recommended to the respective Assemblies and Conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such Government as shall, in the opinion of the Representatives of the People, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general.
Page 45 - That the people of this State ought to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof.
Page 21 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.