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Show 160' ACTS RiiLATING Part IL Sect. V1. TO THE Commas. in the ardor of a generous enthufiafm, fecms to have wilhed for no other power than what might fuflice for the foundation union between the parent and the infant flute. The above repret‘entation will appear [hf- of that common fabric ofliberty, at which, .iIClelllV 4 with no other pre-eminence than that of chief labourer, he was workinrr. Balti- it lilinetl, J by comparing with the ‘ 'larylan (l charter a few of the chants of the charter we are now about contiderinfz. more had turned his back Upon acountry, To the king, but unhappily in a fenl‘e too the majority of whofe inhabitants were literal; to tl e hing, not, as in England, in a {late of irreconcileable enmity with in the regular, independent repoliiories of the tribe he headed 3 Penn kept an eye of his judicial power, the courts of \Vefh afi'eé'tion {till fixed upon a country, Where minder-hail, m: to the king, in conjunc- he hoped to find as many friends as there were perfons duly fenlihle of the value of tion with the feeble and invidious infirument of his prl‘OgCttlY", the council. is liberty, and refolute to defend it. re‘brved the power of receiving appeals in Conformable to this difference in the the hill retort. To the king too is rcfervcd views of the two grantees "was the drift of the charters, refpeétively obtained by them. a negative on all laws. By .11 e'fiprefs claufe a large diViiion of That of the Maryland charter tends the laws, at that time in force in the mo- throughout to mark between the mother ther country, are tranlpor ed at once into country, iffuch it mightbe called, and this the new colony; namely, the rcgulatinns new colony, as firong a line of feparatit n concerning property, fucccflion, and felo- as poflible; that of the Penfylvania char» nies ; which regulations were to continue ter to continue as entire as polhble the. in force till altered by the 1m ‘vrietor, in union l\I conjunction |