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Show [106] telling the Commillioncrs " that the Act of Navigation had for fbmc Years before been obferved here, that they knew not ofits being greatly violated,a:-d that fuch Laws as appeared to be .againlt it were repealed." It may as truly be laid now, that the Revenue Aéls are obferved by fome ofthe People of. this Province ; but it can‘ not be fluid that the Government and Peoale of this Province have conceded that the Parliament had Authority to make {itch Afls to be obferved here. Neither does their Declarations to the t107l . to bind him to take fuch Oath .7 We do not deny, but on the contrary are fully perlhaded that your Excellency's Principles in Government are flill the fame with what they appear to be in the Hiltory ; for you there fay, that " the pull?- intt, thisLaw plainly {hows the wrong Scull: they had of. the Relation they flood in to England." But we are from hence convinced that your Excellency, when you wrote the Hillary was of our Mind in this Rt Ppeé‘t, that our Ancellors in Gommiflioners that fixeh Laws as appeared to be pallting the Law ;illCOVchLl their 0 inion that tigainfl theAé‘t of‘Navigation were repealed, prove they were without thelurililiétion of Parliament: their Concellion of‘the Anthority of Parliament, by any means lb much as their making Provifion for giving Force to an Aft of Parliament within this Province, by a deliberate and folemn Aft or Law of their own, proves the contrary. You tell us, that " the Government Four or five Years before the Charter was vacated more explicitly," that is than by a Converlation with the Commiflioners, " acknowledged the Autho- rity of Parliament, and voted that their Governor lhould take the Oath required of him faith- fully to do and perform all Matters and Things enjoined him by the Acts of‘Trade." But does this. may it pleafe your Excellency, {how their explicit Acknowledgment of the Authority of Parliament ? Does it not rather {how direélly the contrary : For, what need Could there be for their Vote orAuthority to require him to take the Oath already required of him by the i‘t‘l of Parliament, unlefs both he and they judged that an Aft o-f‘Parliament was not of Force fuflicienf For it was upon this Prineiwle alone than they fltcwed the wrong Senfe they had in your lnceh lcncy's Opinion, of the Relation they flood in to England. Your Excellency in your feeond Speech condefcends to point out to us the Acts and Domes of the General AlTembly which relate to Afls of Parliament, which you think " demonllratm that they have been acknowledged ,by thex'ill'cm- bly or fuhmitted to by the People: ' Neither of which in our Opinion lhows that it was‘ theSenle Olithe Nation, and our Prcdecelihrs ween they firfl took Pollemon Of this Plantation or Colony by a Grant and Charter From the Crown, that they were to remain lhhieét to the fupremc Authority of the Englifh Parliament. .t o‘n our,. ' ii' oanxcellency li‘ems chn:.,fly to -myttp Anceflors after the Revolution "proclaiming? Kine William and Queen Maryun tot. hoop: o. s) . \. - t ‘ to1 trem ,t ," and taking the, ()ahsw ' i lanes kin?) . . > ' i i rotor,4. 01 ,rcans? tom or" the, T" Alteration " the. [O - a 4 j Time |