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Show 432 PREFACE 2'0 1%. Galloway': Spree/5. [13.13.] Pra/vriv‘nrz}; Objections loaLzz w. ries have confidcrable tracts of [and Within the bounds of boroughs and towns, tlmthgv:1 not Kat been divided into lots: They prettn e to. 1e- lieve, that by virtue or this clauie 1p linpgiprtrsy divition would be made Of. the u lantls in o"- o ‘, and an extravagant value let on 1mm] ltniabtnardy lots, greatly to their prepuliee.--It v. i'isvnné‘xciidi that do fuch thing was intended by‘the ad , 7d that by lots was meant only rueh ground ast :{le been ihrveyed and divided into lots ; an. 120 deg open undivided 1ands.--It [ills onéllybis innzfidEd, fay their lordthips, then let. the a 1 gm This i; the f0 as clearly to exprelfs who: gillséfiilc . HOW "‘ t mount of t iet‘nrc t c .- gdtciiiilslribderflood here, is yvell known by theFegri: cution of it before the dttpute (32}111‘8‘33 in 5 405iland, and therefore pgfpregpllleelilt Zlfiwfxfih £111 . ; e the oint cou ' Eizldfoihall pfefently be made.---In the pteipcgikrlrget it appears, that the aft was not on 2‘er fundamentally wrong)r 1311(lg11112]t11"flli{at the (governor); r,~ "urn articu ar it, ‘ £37i;§72{0artd :i‘pproba-tion be mlade neeieflag kt): ¢ every iflhe and applipattlonchtierilnip: (yé‘cmbly di 1:; in ‘ raifed by virtue 0' mil t .- 1 is and thought they‘had‘ one > ' Etna??? t'iilie words of the claute being, ‘ $12; ( [the commiflioners named] or the mat/02p w"- ‘ them, or ,Ofthe furvwors ofthem,‘auzz‘a rumm- ¢ fan: or approbation of. the govelnor‘o1 crime t mander in chief of this provmce {(1)}‘t2‘n'onof ‘ being; than order and appornt the zg/jw 3 Me 4.33 ‘ Me "Ia/7:115 arifing by virtue of this aft, ‘ towards paying and clothing two for and thoufand ‘ feven hundred ePfeotive men,' {fa -it was underflood here, that as the power of difpofing was exprefsly to be with the eonfent and approbation of the Governor; the commitlioner s had no power to difpofe of the money without that appr obation : But their lordfhips, jealous (as their Rati on requires) of this prerogative of the crown, and bein better acquainted with the force and weaknefs 0% law expretiion; did not think the elaufe expli cit enough, unlcfs the Words " and not at/Jerwjfi'" were added, or tome other words equi valents- This particular therefore was no more than anot her requifition of greater clearing/i and prec ifion ; and by no means a foundation for the char ge of fun- damentally wrong and unj ui'r. ., ,, Thefifth particular was, ‘Thatprovincial com‘ miflioners be named, to hear and determine ap‘ pea/r, brought on the part of the inhabita nts, ‘ as well as the proprietaries.'--There was already fubfif'ring a provifion for the appointment of county commiflioners of appeal; by whom the aft might be, and aétually has been (as we {hall prefently thew) juf'cly and impartially executed with regard to the proprietaries; But pra'vmczal commifiioners appointed in the act it was thought might be of ufe, in regulating and equalizing the modes of afl'efl'ment of different counties, where they were unequal; and, by affording a fecond appeal, .tend more to the fatisfaétion both of the proprietaries and the people-This particular was k k therefore gr "I ‘lllllllllllltlllflllllllllltl l |