Secondly, "That Tumults & Insurrections of the most
dangerous Nature have been raised & Carried on in Several
of the North American Colonies in open defiance of the Power
& Dignity of His Majestys Governmt & in Manifest Violation
of the Laws & Legislative Authority of this Kingdom."
Thirdly, "That the sd Tumults & Insurrections have been
encouraged & inflam'd by Sundry Votes & Resolutions pass'd
in several of the Assemblies of the said Province Derogatory
to the Honor of His Majestys Governmts and Destructive of
the legal & fundamental Dependancy of the sd Colonies on
the Imperial Crown and Parliamt of Great Britain." Which
Resolutions were founded on a full Examination of the
Papers on our Table, manifesting a Denyal of the Legislative
Authority of the Crown & Parliamt of Great Britain, to impose
Duties & Taxes on our North American Colonies & a Criminal
Resistance thereof made to the Execution of the Commercial
& other Regulations of the Stamp Act, & of other Acts of
Parliamt We are of opinion that the Total Repealing of that
Law, especially whilst such Resistance continues would (as
Govr Bernard says is their Intention) make the Authority of
Great Britain, contemptible hereafter: And that such a Sub-
mission of King, Lords & Commons under such circumstances
in so Strange & unheard of a Contest, would in Effect Sur-
render their antient unalienable Rights of Supreme Jurisdic-
tion, & give them exclusively to the Subordinate Provincial
Legislatures established by Prerogative: wch was never
intended or thought of, & is not in the Power of Prerogative
to bestow, as they are inseparable from the 3 Estates of the
Realm Assembled in Parliament.
2dly Because the Law, wch this Bill now proposes to Repeal,
was pass'd in the other House, wth very little opposition and
in this without one Dissentient Voice during the last Session
of Parliamt which we presume, if it had been wholly & funda-
mentally Wrong, could, not Possibly have happen'd as the
matter of it is so Important, & as the Intention of bringing it
in had been communicated to the Commons by the first Corn-
missr of his Majestys Treasury, the year before, & a Resolu-
tion relating & preparatory to it was then Agreed to in that
House without any Division.
3dly Because If any particular parts of that Law, the
Principle of which has been experienced & Submitted to in
this Country without repining, for near a Century past had
been found liable to Just & reasonable Objections, they might
have been Alter'd by a Bill to explain & amend it, without
repealing the whole: and if any such Bill had been sent to us
by the Commons, We shod have thought it our Duty to have
given it a most serious Consideration, wth a warm Desire of
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