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Show Smith/II. 426 ACTS RELATING Part III. This aét then, to far as it relates to the nomination, and functions of thetherifi‘s, {eems to be at once unjult and impolitic :- unjui't, becaufe it does not fecnrc the rights of the people ; impolitic, becaufe it defeats one at lealt of its own ends. For the ends which the legiflature had, or ought to have had, in view, were firt't TO THE COLONIES. 427 fecurity whatever to the public for his good concluior, who may be, for ought. that "appears, without a foot ofland in the province, who takes no oath, enters into no recognizance for the impartial difcharge of his duty, and who holds his place at the will of the governor, will be a lufiieient and to {ecure to the colonitls, and to convince indififerent Jury? \Vill not any jury he can fummon in any caule, where the rights of them, that it was intended to fecure to the crown, or the interefls of its officers, them, an impartial adminittration of juf- turn of a {uflicicnt and indifl‘erentjury.- And in the next place to convince them, are concerned, be at lealt fufpeéted ? \Vill they hereafter truft to your profeflions of withing to communicate to the colonies, the bleffings of the Britifh confiitution? that the legilluture, in the changes effeéted Will they not relent as a mockery, this af- in their confiitution, meant only to bring fixing the name of an oflicer refpet‘lable it nearer to what themfclves boafi to be its in England, to a creature to totally diliimilar in America? There is no more re- tice, by providing eti‘eEtually for the re- original model, the confiitution of the mo- ther-country.--l\'~ow will the people ever believe, that a jury fummoned by fuch an officer as this, who gives no pledge, no this aft, or even {0 much as noticed -Nor is the governor required to take notite of them. fecurity ;femblance between an Englifh iherifii and the {herifi appointed by this act, than between a con/ill commanding the troops of the molt powerful {late in the world, and a con/it/fettling difputes about figs and mi. (ms, at Smyrna. Another ' «V... l [mull/i nun-u |