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Show 154. ACTS RELATING Part II. Seé'c. V, TO THE Commas. 155 This large interpretation of the elaufe feet, till ratified by the authority of the in queflion, feems farther warranted by ly be faid, I think, that when the king king. This latt argument appears to me conclufive; nor fhould l feruple therefore to gives his content to a tax, levied in his i'ay, that by this charter, the proprietor name, and by his authority, he does not and inhabitants of Maryland were, and the words of the claufe itfelf. It can hard- " eaufe that tax to be fet." And with- out the confent of the king a bill for taxation can no more acquire the force of a command than a bill for any other pur~ poie. In a law for taxation, as well as in every other act of legiflation, the immediate infirumentality is attributed to the king. Now the words of the claufe ofeo- venant are, that the king " will neither " fer, nor 011%? to be i‘et" any ax in Maryland. Hence therefore, I think, we may conclude, that according to the firif‘t kitcr, as well as the fpirit of the charter, the inhabitants of Riaryland are taxable fuppofing them to have kept their part of the contraét inviolate, flz'Z/arc exempted from parliamentary taxation. But taxation only excepted, there feems no reafon to fuppofe but that , Maryland is, in all other refpeéts fubjeél: to the fupreme legiflative power of parliament. The inhabitants of that colony are ex- preily ranked with the " refl of t/zc'fué"jeéi‘r of the kingdom of England." And with refpeét to them in particular, three fiatutes at leai't are manifefily repealed. Two of them, the fiat11t6* of fugitives, only by their own governors and afiemhly; and not by another body of men, whofe commands are Without ef- *9 Or rather fiatutes, viz. 13 Elizjc. 3,-- 14 Eliz. c. 6.--1 James I. c. 4. feet. 8. feCt, and |
