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they differ from the forms of the several sorts of Commissions
to the Judges and Justices in England.
Likewise Resolv'd that it be an Instruction to the said
Committee to inspect the forms of the Oaths of Office that have
been and now are usually taken by the several Magistrates,
And that in Case the following Clause be not inserted in the
said Oath, it be reported to the House such Clause being
agreeable to the Oath taken by the Judges in England and
resolved to be necessary here (viz)
" To do equall Law and Right to all the Kings Subjects
" Rich and poor and not to delay any person of common Right
" for the Letters of the King the Lord Proprietary or any
" other, or for any other Cause, But if any such Letters come
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" to them they shall proceed to do Law such Letters notwith-
" standing
And that Copy of these Resolves be made and given to the
said Committee when they first go out every Sessions, and that
making and giving such Copies be the undoubted Duty of the
Clerk of this House and within the Purview of his Oath.
Resolved also that this Province is not under the Circum-
stance of a Conquered Country, that if it were the present
Christian Inhabitants thereof would be in the Circumstances
not of the Conquered but of the Conquerors, It being a Colony
of the English Nation encouraged by the Crown to trans-
plant themselves hither for the sake of improving and enlarg-
ing its Dominions which by the Blessing of God upon their
Endeavours at their own Expence and labour has been in
great measure obtained and tis unanimously Resolv'd that
whoever shall advance that his Majesty's Subjects by such
their Endeavours and Success have forfeited any Part of their
English Liberties are Ill wishers to the Country and mistake
its happy Constitution.
Resolved also that if there be any Pretence of Conquest
it can be only supposed against the native Indian Infidels,
which Supposition cannot be admitted, because the Christians
purchased great part of the Land they at first took up, from
the Indians as well as from the Lord Proprietary, and have
ever since Continued in an amicable Course of Trade with
them except some partial Outrages and Skirmishes which
never amounted to a general War, much less to a general
Conquest the Indians yet enjoying their Rights and Privi-
leges of Treaties and Trade with the English, of whom we
yet frequently purchase their Rights of such Lands as we
take up as well as of the Lord Proprietary.
Resolved further that this Province hath always hitherto
had the Common Law and such general Statutes of England
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