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Show 48 ACTS RELATING Sled}. III. To THE COLONIES. 49 I} were any ot/Jer principle 1'2; [/10 can [will]: Country, would they by fuch an emigration ceafe to be Britifh fubjeé‘rs 9 I fuppofe not. \Vould they then ceafe to be‘under to rcflmin [/38 operations qf‘t/sc w/Ja/c' éczzj'qf the lggflature on My parlz'cu! :r paint qftax- the jurifdié‘tion of the Britifh legiflature? I flippofe not. Subjeé'tion to the jurif- aria"? diction of the Britifh legiflature is the very S E C T. III. E RE a Country to furrender to circumf'tance which eonfiitutes a Britifh fubje'ét. Great Britain, without any capi‘ Confider the furrendering country as tulation or treaty whatever, it would from that moment become fubjec‘t to the Britiih Iegillature, that is, to the authority of parliament; for the king would hold it in right of his crown, and he could by no aét of his, after it's furrender, exempt it from the power of parliament. \Vhatever power the parliament could conf'titutionally exert over the other fubjefls of Great Britain, the fame power it could exert over the inhabitants of a country thus fut-rendered without treaty or capitulation. Were a number of Britiih {ubjeéls to emigrate, and take polTeHion of a vacant C011? try, making a capitulation or treaty; confider the emigrating fubjeéts as praying, obtaining, and accepting a charter, what would be their fituation then? In this cafe they make a compact with the king, a€ting in his procuratorial capacity, as agent and re- prefentative of the whole legillature. In this capacity, and by this compaft, the king engages to repeal, as to #26722, certain laws, and to el‘mblifh others. A capitulation, a treaty, or a charter, does this, or it does nothing. It gives them powers, which, as Britifh fubjeéts, they had not by law. If exempts them from rel'traints, and E from |
