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Show merly conceived of the Partiality of flmerz'rmz Courts, and dineriean Juries in Trials at Law with the Mother-Country, were f0 far from being abated by Length of Time, that they were grown higher than ever; becaufe it appears by this very Aét, that the Power of the Officer or Informer was greatly enlarged, having the Option now granted him of three different Countries for profecuting the Offence; whereas in the former of Charles 11. made 16 Years before, he had only two. Moreover it " 9‘ " " " Ufages, or Cuflonis, at 1122'; Time, or which lierezzf/er {ball be in Practice, or endeavoured, or pretended to be in Force or Practice, in any of the faid Plantations, which are in any wzfi repugnant to the before-mentioned Laws, or ." any of them, fo far as they do relate to the ‘ faid Plantations, or any of them, or which are é‘ any ways repugnant to this prefent Aft, OR TO " ANY OTHER LAW HEREAFTER TO BE MADE " IN THIS KINGDOM, f0 far as fuch Law {hall " relate to, and mention the faid Plantations, "are ILLEGAL, NULL, AND VOID TO ALL IN- was this Time further ordained, that the 071145 probandz‘ {hould reit on the Defendant, and alfo " TENTs AND; PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." WORDS could hardly be devifed to exprefs the Sentiments, of the Erzgli/lz Legiflature, more that no * Effoin, Proteétion, or +Wager of fully and firongly, than thefe have done : And Law fhould be allowed him. BUT above all, and in order to prevent, if if ever a Body of uninfpired Men were endowed pollible, every Sort of Chicane for the future, with a Spirit of Divination, or of foreleeing, and alfo of providing againft untoward future and to frufirate all Attempts of the Colonies, Events, as far as human Prudence could extend, 3" An Efl'oin fignifies, in Law, aPretence or Excufe. + A Wager at Law, is a Power granted to the Defendant to jqpmr, together with other Compurgatorr, that he pwes nothlng to the Plaintiff in the Manner fet fortli.--It IS eafy to fee what Ufe would have been made of fucll 3 Power, had it been allowed. either the King, Lords, and Commons oftheJEra I 696, Were the very'Men. For they evidently forefaw, that a Time was approaching, when the Provincial Afi'emblies would difpute the Right Of American Sovereignty with the great and general Council of the Briz‘zfl Empire: And therefore T 3 ‘fiysifli ' \ the Sufpicions which the Parliament had for- " thority aforefaid, that all Laws, Bye-Laws, can. " the Claimer {hall be reputed to be the Importer _‘,‘ or Owner thereof." Now here it is obvious to every Reader, that =9qu m: " Ihall lie upon the Owner or Claimer; and Hi!» either to throw Off or evade the Power and Jus rifdiction 0f the l‘v'lother-Country,---It was at § 9. " further enafted and declared by the Au- «I y": A [ I49 l 6‘ of the faid Plantations, in fuch Cafe the Proof . Luau-MM;In"an ,V U x. l' 148 l |