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Show 36 A. AND CLAIMS or A M l? R lC THE RIGHTS OF BRITAIN of midi"; ers, appointed under the Great Seal d by i" houfes and warehoufes, as was; exercife attending England, or Seal of the Admiralty, is to to the comic of the Admiralty, that 6:5 the fame Officers in England." All penalties and forfeitures were made recoverable in the Courts at Vv'eflminfier, or in Courts of Admiralty, in the Plantations; which fay, of the Colonies, for arrelling lnrlr T's-"Eratz-s or their acr:eli"arics. In any aftion or {hit concerning his I‘s'lajelly's Duties, the ofience might be laid in any precinct or divifior; of the l utages and cufloms repugnant to any laws of Great Britain which relate to the Plantations, or mention the fame, are declared " illegal, null, and void." Many other reflrié‘riozts, Ito-o tedious to be mentioned, were at the farm tithe enacted and impoled. But it was not in matters of Trade 0N1. r, that Parliament, during the reign of King William, fuperintended and controuled the Colonies. The Colonills, it was found, had‘ encouraged Pirates, in various places , and nol be ohtamettin THEIR Courtsl ag.,_§ainl'l~ ofiL-ndcrs, whom they openly ahetted.i‘ :- . 2 ~ : ' \' .lo remeoy tlns {namefol ahnte, a r‘er‘narkahle Ail was paired, in the \I'Villiam III, dieilion in that tations. The lences, in the 31th and 12th Oil: This Act aholilhed cafe, in the Courts in son: power of trying Colonies, was veiled all Jurif-g the Planfueh oi- ' in Com- ntifiionersa They might, atztrlaretion, , or lend either try the criminals in Anterior Plantations, where the fame thould be alledged to have been committed, at the difcretion of 1 the Officer or lnformer. All laws, bydaws, \ jnflice could The Commifiioners in any were alto impowered to illue warrants, Courts were then, for the 37/? time, ellahlifhed throughout all America. WITHOUT JURY Sherald the them to England to he tried. ary GoGovernors of any Charter or Propriet oners; vernment refute to allill the Commilli nies, Lolo hould any potion in authority, in the retut‘al, refute to pay obedience to the. Ail ; inch eiture in either cafe, was declared to he a forf of the Charter. of An Act palled in the loth and nth year 0'." the the fame reign, confines the advantage thips fitted Fifllery of Newfoundland to Britltlr i<m or the out from GreataBtitain. The mo:«;.:_;s liithery, orders and regulations retpeélingg that rals, in was placed in the hands of the Admi to lay, in the the refpeétive harbours ; that is thoultl hands of the mailer of" the [hip that ilon tleti firfl arrive from Great-Britain. 'lhe in loch in all quellions of civil rm is yelled d-J or. Admirals, with appeal to the Comman All criminal oil-1:11:15 2;: ~: to the King's (hips. be tried, in any County of England, by the er King's Comnltlioners of ()yer and 'l‘crmln and Goal delivery. 7 r »r 1‘16 |
