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Show x36 , ACTS RELATING Part II. §e&.IV. TO THE Commas. 137 " minal or civil; on matters capital, or actrnent, any laws made by the general " not capital ; and of awarding, and alfemblies. " making out execution thereon." To theinhabitants in general, are granted all the liberties of natural-born fubjeé‘ts within any of the king's dominions; the right of appealing to the king, in dcrnier refort, from any "judgment or fentence," From thefe laws, however, are except- ed, fuch as {hall be made to pafs any grant of lands within the three colonies of Maffachufet's Bay, New Plymouth, and the in any perfonal action, wherein the matter province of Maine only. Laws for theft: purpofes are exempted from difallowance. Finally, to the hing are referved all trees in dill'erence exceeds the value of three ofa certain diameter; and, as in former hundred pounds fterling: tot/ch/z'of them charters, the fifth part of all gold or filver ore, and of all precious flones. Many, we are to obferve, are the as Iioflbls a freehold of the yearly value of forty fhillings, or a perfo'nal efiate ofthe va- lue of fifty‘pound‘s, is gr'anted'a right of voting at the election of reprefentatives to l‘erve in the general'all‘eniblies; and, lallly, by an exprefs provilion, to all except Pa- pifts, a full liberty Iof corifcienee. To the king himfelf are referved, the powers of erecting courts of admiralty; 'of nominating the governor, lieutenant- governor, and feeretary; of receiving ap~ peals in per/07ml actions; of difallowing, {o it be within three years after their en~ aclmeut, powers granted in this charter, which were wanting in the former. Among others, that of levying taxes on themfelves is particularly obfervable. It is from this fpecifieation, whereby the power of taxation is, by the parliament, {peaking through the'king, communicat- ed to the colonies, that fome are forward to infer the parliament's having renounc~ ed it for itlelf. But this inference feezns not jult. r"he. |
