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Show 32o ACTS RELATING PartIII. would be the objects of it are at liberty to feleé't, need not be obferved. Some papers, however, fnch as men in place thought proper to produce, were laid before the two Houfes. And upon the information contained in them, feveral refolutions were formed. The purport of them was to reprobate as illegal, and unconflitutional, the rcfolves of the Houfe of Reprefentatives of Mall‘achnfet's Bay, calling in quellion the lupreme authority of parliament : to cenfure, as tend- ing to inflame the minds of the people, and to create unlawful combinations, the letters written by that afieiiibly to the other afl'emblies on the continent, inviting them to join in petitions, which called the fu- Sect. II. TO THE Commas. 32! confequent necefiity of employing the military in fupport of the civil magylrate 9*, and the officers of the revenue : to repro~ bate the refolutions of the town-meetings at Bolton, and their appointment of a convention, which lall at‘l is termed a daring infult on his majelly's authority, and an audacious ufurpation of the powers of government T. Thefe refolutions were followed by an addrefs to the king, in which the m'eafures already taken by him to fupport the conflitution, and to inducea due obedience to the authority of the legiflature are approved: aflurances of ell‘eétual {upport are given, and his majel'ty is requelled to direét the * There is fomething rather fingular in the preme authority of parliament in queltion: manner of drawing up thefe relblutions. to record that riots and tnmults of a dan- cafe was as llated in the preceding refolurion, gerous nature, had lately happened in the province of Mall'achufet's Bay; to blame that the civil magii'trates did not exert themfelves ; it was notfupport they wanted, but incli- nation. the council, and other civil magitlrates for prefume, that the military {hould create it. not properly exerting their authority for If the If inclination, it was {carce expeéled, I f See Com. Journ. vol. xxxii. p. 107, 108, 185, 186. the fuppreflion of thefe riots : to afi‘ert the conlei'picnt Y gover - |