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Show [24] [ 25 ] ~Realm were more'efl‘eaually fecured to theInha- feel Harmony and Agreement between them; But fuppofing your‘Excellency's InFc-renCejuit, that by the {aid former Paragraph (COliildCl'Ctl by bitants of theProvince agreeable to another Claufe in the Charter, whereby thofe Liberties and 1m munities are exprelsly granted to them : and. accordingly the Power of the General Court 18 f0 far limited, that they {hall not make Orders and Laws to take away or diminifh thofe Liberties . ‘ and Immunities. itlElf) are, refer‘ved to Parliament Power and Au;thority to bind us by Laws made exprefsly to re- fer to us. Does it confiii withjnfiice and Equity that it lhould be confidered apart, and tnged ad againfi the People of this Province with all its Force and without Limitation, and at the lame This Conflrué‘tion appears to us ajufl one, and Time the other Paragraph which they thought 'perhaps may appear fo to your Excellency if you will pleafe to conlider, that by another Part of the Charter effectual Care was taken for prevent. ing the General Afl'embly pafling of Orders and Laws repugnant to, or that in anyWay might mi- 'fecured to them the eil‘cniial Rights and Privileges of free and natural Subjects be rendered of no Validity .9 If the fermer Paragraph (in this {hp- po'fed cafe) be binding on this People, the latter litate with Aé‘ts of Parliament then or {ince made, muf'r be binding on the Crown, which thereby became Guarantee of‘thofe Rights and Privilez- or that might be exceptionable in any other Ref- 'ges. £26} whatever : for the Charter referves to his ' ajefiy the Appointment ofthe Governor, whole Aflent is neceflary in the paliing of all Orders and Laws: after which they are to be fent to England for the Royal Approbation or Difallowance : 'by which double Controul effectual Care is taken to prevent the Efiablifhment of any improper Orders or Laws whatever.---Be{ides, your Excel- lency is fenfible that " Letters Patent mufi be confirmed one Part with another, and all the Parts of them together, fo as to make the whole har- monize and agree. But your Excellency's Conflruétion of the Paragraph impowering the General Court to make Orders and Laws, does by no means harmonize and agree with the Paragraph Or it mull be fuppofed that one Party is held by a Compaé‘t, and the other not : Which Suppofition is againii Reaf‘on and againfi Law ‘; and therefore dellroys theFoundation of thelnfeiu enCe. However, Fup‘pofing it well founded, it Would not from thence Follow, that the Charter intended finch Laws as {honld ftibjeéi the Inhabitants of the Province to Tastes without their Cenretit : For (as appears above) it grants to them all the Rights and Liberties of free and natural Subjects : OF which one of the moft efléntial is a Freedom from all Taxes not confented to by themfelves. Nor Could the Parties, either Gra'ntor or Grantees, intend fuch Laws. The Royal Grantqr could not, betaufe his Grant con;tradifls fuch Intention ; and becaule it is incon- granting Liberties and Immunities; and therefore fitlent with every Idea of Royalty and royal Wils- we humbly conceive is not to be admitted : thm, to grant what it does not intend to grant. Yr hereas on the other Confiruétion there is a per; And it will be readily allowed that the Grantees f5; ' couid |