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Show 23+ \ Acrs RELATING Part II. the inhabitants of the mother-country would have for jultice in their difputes with tliofe of the colonies, is eafy to be imagined. E *Cn then the commiflioners of trade reprefcntcd to the houfe, " that fpeedy and " efrec‘tual care {hould be taken to render " the colonies more fubfervient and rileftil " to this l;ingdom."--That this might be done "by the legillative power of this " kingdom," is what the commiflioners feem to have had no doubt of; though they conceived it could not be efl-‘eéted by any other means. Sect. X. TO THE Coromns. 235 " formed .theinfelvcs to the afir of par" liament for regulating trade and na" vigation: that feveral of the Governors "in the Proprietary Governments had 9‘ not applied to his Majef'cy for his. ap- " probation, nor taken the oaths required " by tle ails of trade: that they had ~" made [427.91 contrary and repugnant to " the laws of England." And the commiilioners go fo far as to recommend it to parliament to relinne the charters. It is however true, that till the eera of the Stamp AE't the colonies did not (li- rcétly, and in thefécy of parliament, de~ In another report, delivered in the be- my the power of parliament to pals laws, ginning of the next year 9", it is again alledged againl't both Proprietary and Char- which {hould bind them. The laws paf'c by the colonial legiilaturcs, though in fome infiances really repugnant to the laws of England, were not {0 much di~ reé‘t denials of that power, as medica- tions of tie provilions made by it. They ter Governments, " that they had not " complied with what had been demand" ed of them in reference to trade, or with " what might be neceiTary for the com" mon fafety; that they had not con¥ In. Sec Commons Journals, vol. x111. p. 729. ihewed a tendency which lhould have been carefully watched, and as carefully at, a J," . r ‘ , . extend, to n"roizn thcmfidve s out 013 obe- " formed dience, |