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Show 142 Acrs RELATING Part II. Sect V. TO THE COLONIES. 143 negative. " Did your majefiy mean to exempt us," fay the reprefentatives, "from parliamentary taxation ?" Says the mo- narch-" No.--You the fubordinate le" giflative body of this my province {hall " not be the Mb: body having power to " lay taxes. Others, one other fuch body SECT. V. 117m; were [/16 prim/{gar conveyed by [/12 crown to Me proprieMr and z'n/zaéilantr of fVLny/md [/2 1/15 C/xarter of Maryland? " at leaft there fhall be befides." What [hall be this body? The king alone ? ‘E S lD E S thefe governments, which That, I trul'r, will hardly be maintained. alone are called chartered; there are If any one can find out another, befides the parliament, let him produce it. others, which though equally derived from charters, are called proprietary. Thefe Mr. Juftice Blackllone defines to be governments, " granted out by the " crown to individuals, in the nature of " feudatory principalities, with all the in- " ferior regalities and fubordinate powers " of legiflation, which formerly belonged " to the owners," as he thinks proper to call them, " of counties palatine." The full of thefe proprietary governments, (or indeed of any of the colonies founded for the exprefs purpofe of fer-1 fling) which was difinembered from the general |