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Show _ _ _ ,... --..-‘..._..._.~-‘ . ( thofe rules of government, which wife legiflators have ever obferved, and the bulk of mankind yet honOur and revere-To know the laws of the land already inform, previous to the publication of a new code, or in the technical phrafeology of a common lawyer " to know how the law {tood before we make a new fiatute", hath been confidered as an ind‘ifpenfable accompliihment of a good le- \Vill any now fay, that the monies appointed to be paid to the Ealtlndia houfe come within the Words of " Hercflzzzy fawn (la/11138573 When did the town contract the debt, or how are they fubjec't to the payment of it? Had the Parliament teen fit to enaft, that monies rcquilite to fatisfy the lndia merchants, lhould be fo (Halide/ed ; two quefiions (not of quick deeilion) might then have arifen ; giflator. But that illultrious Parliament, whofe power is diftinguiihed, with the appellation of" om« nipotent", feem not to have exercifcd this Important knowledge g-tho' we do not hence ralhly infer, that they are deftitute of information, becaufe all who are veiled with omnipofeme qf power come within the intent and delign of the Province law. For palt doubt, our l‘rcwincial legillators are ever infpired with propartionafe Wifdom. and in this way therefore the matter could not he It mutt again be noticed, that no relief is to be had, " untill full fatisfac'tion hath been made BY or on behalf of the inhabitants of faid town of Bolton".- brought within it's proviiion. Parliament mug} then make a new 38: to emzlile and importer 80/?011 to pay the India company, luff)? Me fouvz mu rcmfly with the terms of relief of their trade. in the mean while, what is to be th fitmtion of Botion Now to fuppol‘e' that any in England or Europe Would make fatistaé'tion " m balm/f" of faid Inhabitants was unnatural, if not abfurd ; but what is more to the point, it was certainly unpar/imzmzmry. The remaining alternative is that fatisfaétion mufi be made by Boflan. Every perfon knows, that towns in this Province cannot raife or appropriate any monies, but by the exprefs provifions and direct authority of law: it is a matter of equal notoriety that all town ailefsments of money are exprefsly confined, by the 4 Wm. & Mar. c r3. to the" maintenance " and fupport of the minifiry, fchools, the poor, " and dcfraying ofother neaflzry TOWN CHARGES". A law which received the royal approbation, almoit a century agone. . Will the one touching the validity and obligatory force of the {tatute 3 the other, whether it would then had no fuch Charge (as the one here luppoi‘ed) in View, when they made the law of Vim. 8: Mary ; and the inhabitants of the globe with whom they have inch extenlive connections FmElut, it is very apparent, that the Parliament have not :15 yet enaz‘rC11 the payment of this {atist'aetion as a team Marga). They have only placed it in the option of the tow n to make that payment, or fubmit to the compquences. That payment, we aflirm, f/ch ran/19: fay, wit/20a! brmu') g" [/13 L210 of the /mza'.---l\lew and. unheard of therefore is the {late of this people. They mutt lilflain the feverclt afilit‘lions, they muft {land the ilfue of dittraétiug remediesw-or~-Viola te one of the molt known and prafiiced laws of the land !--Let us {catch the hillery of the world 3»- let us inl'pcc't the records of a Spauilh inquifitlon, '' lei: .0 |