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Show 166 ACTS RELATING PartIl. tain. Under fuch a mode of taxation they would be as echflually reprefented by the commons as the greater part of the inhabitants of Great Britain are reprefented by them. Sufi. VII. S 167 TO THE Commas. E C T. Vii. .f‘V/mt power did f/lt' par/[11mm excreta/L" war [/13 (0/0.!211'5 from l.l*cx',!"_/;€2j/'z' (flair/fl:mmf, to f/ae time cfz/ss (emu/372:3 alt/1 :9 REF 0 R E we had examined into the privileges granted-by the crown to the original fettlers in America, we laid down fome propofitions very favourable to the caufe of the colonilis. We fuppofed the king to aét in the fame capacity, when he * C‘O'Uc'i?flfll€z‘/\Vltll them, as when he [remit with foreign fiates. \Ve {uppofed charters to be ails of the fame nature and force, as capitulations and treaties of peace. From thence YC in- ferred, that the grantees have a legal right to all the powers and exemptions therein fpecified ; and alfo to all other powers and *9 This is the term uled in the proprietary NI 4 exemp- charters. |