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that Character and the Duty of such Comittee be Annext
to the said Comittee of Agrievances as a Standing part of
their Duty.

And that it be an Instruction to the s^d Comittee as a
Comittee of Courts of Justice that they observe the Nature
of all the Comissions of the Severall Courts of Judicature
within this province and that they Especially observe any
Alteracons that may at Any Time happen by Accidentall
Omissions or Otherwise therein and particularly relating to
such Words therein as require the Severall Judges and Jus-
tices to hear Try & Determine According to the Laws
Statutes Ordinances and reasonable Customs of England and
of this province, or to such other words as have relacon
thereto and that they shall imediately make a report to the
House of any alteracons that shall at any Time happen in
Such Comission and likewise to have regard as near as may be
to observe wherein they Differ from the Terms of the Severall
Sorts of Comission to the Judges and Justices in England.
Likewise resolved that it be an Tnstruccon to the s^d Comittee
to Inspect the forms of the Oaths of Office that have been and
now are usually taken by the Severall Magistrates and that

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In Case the following Clause be not inrerteH Tn the s^d 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 &c^a:
"To Do equall Law and right to all the Kings Subjects
" rich and poor and not to delay any person of Comon right
" for the Letters of the King the L^d Proprietary or of any
" other or for any other Cause But if any such L^res come to
" them they shall proceed to do the Law the Same Letters
" Notwithstanding.
And that a Copy of these Resolves be made and Given to
the said Comittee when they first go out every Sessions and
that making and giving such Copies be the Undoubted duty
of the Clerke of this House and within the purview of his
Oath.
Resolved Alsoe 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 Circumstance
not of the Conquered but of the Conquerors, It being a
Collony of the English Nation encouraged by the Crown to
Transplant themselves hither for the Sake of Improving and
enlarging 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 Re-

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