310 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

Likewise Resolved that it be an Instruction to the said
Comittee to inspect the form of the oaths of office that have
been and now are usually taken by the severall 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 King's Subjects rich
" & poor and not to delay any pson of Comon Right for the
" Letters of the King the Lord Proprietarys or of any other ;
" [or] for any other Cause. But if any such Letters come to
" them they shall proceed to do the Law, the Same Letters
" Notwithstanding."

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And that 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 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 Circumstance,
not of the Conquered but of the Conquerors, It being a Col-
ony of the English nation Encouraged by the Crown to
Transplant themselves hither for the sake of Improving and
inlarging its Dominions which by the Blessing of God upon
their Endeavours, at their own Expence and Labour has been
in Great measure obtain'd. And 'tis unanimously Resolved,
That whoever shall advance that his Ma^tys 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 Suppos'd against the native Indian Infidells
which Supposition cannot be admitted, because the Christian
Inhabitants 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 partiall Outrages and Skir-
mishes, which never amounted to Generall Warr, much less
to a Generall Conquest, The Indians yet Enjoying their Rights
and priviledges of Treaties and Trade with the English of
whom we yet frequently purchase their Rights of such Lands
we take up as well as of the Lord Prop^ry
Resolved further that the province hath allways hitherto
had the Common Law, and such Generall Statutes of Eng-
land as are not restrain'd by words of Locall Limitation in
them, and such Acts of Assembly as were made in the Prov-