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Show l. 80 7‘] [91] that there was and would remain a Supremacy in thofe AEls of the Province been very carefully acknowledge, in an Addrefs to theKing, that they _ framed to prevent their militating with the Aft of Parliament? I will mention alfo an Act of have no Power to make Law's repugnant to tire Law: of Englgnd. And, immediately after the Parliament made in the firlt Year of (lueen Ann, the Parliament; About the fame Time, they Ali'umption of the Powers of Government b altho' the Proceedings upon it more immediatel vrel‘peéted the Council, By this Aft no Oflice Virtue of the new Charter, an Act palled to re- ' Civil or Military lhall be void by the Death of vive for a limitted Time all the Local Laws of the King. but lhall Continue fix Months, unlefs the Colonies of Maflitchufetts-Bay and New- fuliiended or made void by the next Succeflhr. Plimouth, refpeclively, not repugnant to IbeLawt By Force of this Act. Governor Dudley continued in the ,Adminillration fix Months from the Dentifc oF-ja‘ueen 'Ann, and immediately after, of England. And, at the lame Sellion, an Aft palTed eflablilhing Naval Officers in feveralPorrs of the Province, for which this Reafon is given, Ilia! all undue Trading contrary to an .45? of Parliament Made in fire 15117Tear quing Char/e! the Council alfitmed the Adminittrarion and chn‘ tinned it until a Proclamation arrived from King The Aft of this Province paired [0 George, by Virtue of which Governor Dudley realTumed the Government. It would be tedious to enumerate the Addrefl‘es. Votes and long ago as the fecond Year of King George the Mellages of both the Council and Houfe of Re- firl't, for Rating the Fees of the Cullom-Houfe Officers," mull have relation to the ans of Parliament by which they are conflituted, and the Provifion made in that Act of the Province for prefentatives to the fame Purpofe. lb: Second may be prevented in t/ri: t/Jeiqu/efly': _ Province. extending the Port of Bolton to all the Roads as far as'Cape-Aod, could be for no other Purpofe than for the more efleétual carrying the Acts of I have laid enough to lhew that this Government has fub~ mitted to Parliament from a Conviction of it's confiitutional Supremacy, and this not from In- .corrfideralien, nor nicer/y from Kat/agent? at t/m Idea of contending wit/2 the Parent State. Trade into Execution. And, to come nearer to the prefentTimthen an Act of Parliament had If then I have made it appear, that both by the firfl and fecond Charters we hold our Lands paired in 1741, for putting an End to certain unwarrantablc Schemes in this Province, did the Authority of Government, or thofe Perlbns more immediately affected by it, ever difpute the Vali- and the Authority of Government not of the dity of it 1' On the contrary, have not a Num. England, that this hath been the Serife'of' this lantzrtion. except in thofe few Years when the Principles of Anarchy which had prevailed in the Kingdom had not loft their Influence here; anfd her of Acts been palléd in the Province, that the Burdens to which their Perfons were {objected might be equally apportioned, and have no: 391 [10 C King but of' the Crown of England, that being at Dominion of the Crown of‘ England, we are confequentiy {object to the Supreme Authority of L l o |
