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Show 4o Acrs RELATING Part I. Seé‘t. II. TO THE COLONIES. 4x tified only by that idea, were flill re- " which (fays the 218:) great and manifold tained. " inifchiefs have arifen" For remedy, the aft not only abolifhes the {tar-chamber, and thejurifdiélion of feveral other courts erected on the fame model, (feet. iii. and Ifhall only mention two. The firfl is, the giving to the king in council the power of hearing and determining, in derizicr rrfom‘, all caufes ariiing in the colonies. This regulation was a coufe‘ quence of coniidcring the colonies as part iv.) but liltewife declares "that neither " his majefty, nor his privy council have, " or ought to have any jurifdié'tion, &c. " by Englith hill, &c. to determine, or ofthe king's foreign dominions Appeals lay in Normandy to the duke in council. " difpofe of lands, &c. of any ofthe fub- They lie at prefent from Juicy, Guern- ‘-‘ jeé‘ts of this kingdom," (ieét. v) Now fey, &c. to the king, as duke of Nor- are not all the colonies parcels of this mandy. kingdom? But if the colonies are part of the realm, tional. {itch appeal is unconllitu- power thus exercifed by the king in council over the colonies, exerted in the teeth This is not only unconfiitntional, but it is againft an exprei‘s law. And if {0, is not a judicial of an act of parliament ? For by the not, By a provifion in 6 Anne, ch. 6. the 10 Cha. l. c. 10. for regulating the privy council, and taking away the {tar-cham- ber, it is {aid (feet. iii.) " that the coun- " eil table hath of late ailiuned unto itfelf two privy councils of the two kingdoms council is to have the fame powers as the privy council of England Men/21X? had be- " a power to intermeddle in civil caufes, fore the union, and 720/10 ot/m‘. Colonies 9‘ and matters only of private interelt be- were here ." tween party and party, See. &c. By i‘ which are confolidated into one; which privy now ellablilhed. Yet no power |