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Show Joo ACTS RELATING Part II. Scé't. I. TO THE Coromes. 101 fit, to pcrfons employed in the plantation; like cafes in the realm of England :---" or and to fuch witnelics as may be called to clear up any matter in controverfy. Another power there is, if pollible, fiill more extraordinary than any of the pre- " elfe" (fays the charter) " at their (If/tre- " lion, to remand, and find fine/e *, the " {aid offenders, unto the faid colony in " Virginia, t/zere to be proceeded againit, ceding : a power, than which, had it been exerted, none could well bid fairer to bring " and pun/fled, as the governor, deputy, or " council there, {hall think mrcz‘ : or other- a colony to ruin. " wife according to fuch laws and ordiIt feems complaint had been made, that " nanccs, as are and fliall be in ufe there, artificcrs and others, after having received premiums for engaging in the fervice of the company, had either refufed to go to " for the well ordering, and good govern" ment of the faid colony." The more attentively we confider thcfe America at all, or being Mere had mifbecharters, the more we {hall be convinced, haved themfelves; and on their return, being convened before the council here, had behaved contemptuoully to that court; and had endeavoured, byflmm'rrour report: to difcourage others from "joining in the adventure." To remedy this evil, the king empowers {my taco of the council to bind over fuch pcrfons to their good behaviour, and to that they cannot operate to the fupport of the claims fet up by the Americans of this day. One of the grants is evidently zYkgaL It gives a power, which the king could not convey, in whatever capacity he be confidered as acting. In his procumforia! cao proceed againit them as is ufual in other 7 * To wit, as well thofe who had returned from thence, as thofe who had never been. like H 3 pacity, |