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Show 446 ACTS RELATING Part III; Sea. Vlll. TO‘ THE COLONIES. 447 to perfons refident there: it declares it to‘ be at prrflm‘ (though it does not fay why, the faid town or diltri€t for ma/cing roadr, nor therefore give any datum, by which for any other purpofe refpefling the local convenience and oceonomy of fuch town or it may be conjectured w/mz it will be lefs) inexpedient to call an ailembly;-and it therefore empowers his majefly, by warrant under his fign manual, with the advice of his privy council, to confiitute the council in qucfiion under the defeription of-a council for the affairs of the province ;--to confii't of fuch perfons ice/[dent there, not more than twenty-three, nor erecting, or repairing, public buildings, or dif'trift. All ordinances to be made by this coun~ cil are to be tranfmitted to his majel'ry, Within {ix months, for the royal allent. Nor is any ordinance touching religion, or any ordinance inflicting a greater punifhment than fine, or imprifonment for three months, to be of any validity, till fewer than feventeen, as his majefly {hall fuch confent is obtained. appoint; which council thus appointed, or can be pulled at any meeting of the coun- the major part thereof, with the confent of cil, where lefs the governor, are to make laws " for the whole council is prefent ; nor at anytime, " peace, welfare, and good government of " the province." From the general power of legillation except between the firft of January, and thus given, that of taxation, however, flands excepted, unlcl's it be with refpec't to fuch rates and taxes as the inhabitants of any town or dillric‘t, may be authorifcd by the council to levy, and apply within 6 the No ordinance than a majority of the the firlt of May, unlcfs on urgent ocea- fions: on which occafions the governor is to fuminon every member relitlent at (QC- bee, or within fifty miles of it. There is one circumllanee which Inuit mike every man who reads this act. It is acknowledged over and over again in it, that |