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Show 162 ACTS RELATING Part IL conjunction with the freemen, or their de- Seer. VI. TO THE COLONIES. 163 Another exprefs Ptipulation is, " that all " oflieers, and their deputies, who {hall " from time to time be appointed by the " farmers and commiflioners of his maje- puties. To the proprietor and inhabitants, bothprefent and to come, is granted the liberty of importing the produéts of the colony into England, and re-exporting them into other parts under certain regulations: one of thefe regulations is, that they {hall pay the fame duties " as the relt of the " {nbjefts of the kingdom of England for " the time being, flm/I be bound to pay; " be admitted and received into all the " and do obfervc the act of navigation, mifdemeanors his principal may have corn~ " and other laws in that behalf made." " Fry's cui'toms, for the time being, (hall " ports and harbors of the province." The proprietor is directed to maintain an agent, or attorney, in London, who is to be ready to appear in any of the king‘s courts in \Vet‘lminfier, to anfvver for any mitted, or, by wilful neglect, permitted, > C 7 Full" The duties to be paid by other fubjects, againfl' the laws of trade and navigation; might, it is clear, be fixed by laws at any time thereafter to be made: thefe duties, to be fixed by laws then future, the Penfyl-s vanians are to pay. It feems, therefore, but a natural conllrué‘tion to fuppofe, that 1 and to pay fueh damages as the court {hall adjudge, " and anfvver fuch other forfei" tures and penalties, as by the acts of " parliament in England are, or flag/[[25 " provided " by the laws mentioned in the fueeeeding paragraph were meant, not only laws t/mz To conclude with a elaufe altogether decilive upon the pretentions which thefe co- actually made, but alfo laws thereafter 2‘0 55 lonifls can found upon their charter :---the " made in that behalf." king covenants not to impofe any tax, but Another M 2 with |