310 Assembly Proceedings, May 14-June 6, 1719.

U. H. J.

of his Religion, but if Laws for the Preservation of the
Peace & Tranquility of this Province without Infringing the
Rights or Priviledges of any Particular Person be Accounted
Persecution, then we must Confess ourselves a persecuteing
Administration, hut that the Consequence of such a notion
must needs be that all wholesome Laws made for the Preser-
vation of life or Property wou'd for the same Reason be
Deemed a persecution of Felons & murtherers, A Principle of
so horrid and Salvage a nature in itself that every Comunity
of Reasonable Creatures will Explode it as Destructive of all
civill Society

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As to the Proceedings against a particular person men-
tioned in the Act for the better Supporting of Magistrates &c.
We are Inclined to believe that no other Circumstance than
that of Condemning a Person unheard would have prevailed
to the Repeal of that Act which their Lordships in a Just
Regard of the Rights and Liberties of an English Subject
Cou'd not in prudence Justify after some Eminent Practition-
ers in the Law had given their Opinions that It was Arbitrary
and Illegal Altho we have but Just Reason to Suspect that the
party therein Charged having a Just Apprehension of his own
Demeritts forbore makeing any application in our house, lest
if he had been Condemn'd here, his Project had been Defeated
in Designing to Clamour in England against the Justice of the
Act, which Design Manifestly Appears by his Artfull Man-
agement in Deferring his Petition to the lower house untill
after the bill had been Engrossed there (which if we are not
misinformed was the Answer of that house to him, And the

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Foundation of his Complaint in England that he was Con-
demned unheard.)
The Propagation of Learning And with it the Principles of
Christianity in this Remote Part of the World is a Subject
Worthy the Consideration of all good and Pious Christians.
But forasmuch as all our Funds now settled fall short of the
End Designed, we are by such Incapacity made so much the
more Sensible of our misfortune That the Revenue arising
from the Duty of One penny p pound on Tobacco Exported
out of this Province is wholly applyed to the maintenance and
Support of a Colledge of Learning in Virginia which the
youth of this Province Reap no manner of Benefitt by Altho'
we are much worse Provided with Private Schools than that
Colony. Wherefore we Cannot upon this Occasion help Ex-
pressing our Desires that some proper & Dutiful Application
were made to his Sacred Majesty, whose Gracious and Bounti-
ful Liberality hath Diffused itself into all, even the Remotest
Parts of his Majestys Dominions, That his Majesty woud
be pleased to appropriate so much of the said one penny p