194 Assembly Proceedings, October 3-November 2, 1728.

L. H J.

missions to the severall Courts of Judicature within this Province
and that they especially observe any Alterations that may at any
time happen by accidentall Omission or otherwise therein and Par-
ticularly relating to such words therein as require the severall
Judges and Justices to hear try and Determine according to the
Laws Statutes Ordinances and reasonable Customs of England and
of this Province or to such other words as have relation thereto and
that they shall immediately make report to House of any Altera-
tions that shall at any time happen in such Commission; and like-

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wise to have regard as near as may be to observe wherein they differ
from the forms of the severall sorts of Commissions to the Judges
and Justices in England.
Likewise Resolved That it be an Instruction to the said Com-
mittee to inspect the forms 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 Kings Subjects rich and
Poor and not to delay any Person of common Right for the Letters
of the King the Lord Proprietary 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.
And that a 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 Purveiw of his Oath.
Resolved also that this Province is [not] under the Circumstance
of a conquered Country, That if it were the present Christian In-
habitants thereof would be in the Circumstance not of the Conquered
but of the Conquerors; it being a Colony of the English Nation
encouraged by the Crown to transplant themselves hither for the
sake of emproving 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.

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And it is Unanimously resolved 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
only be supposed against the Native Indian Infidells, which sup-
position cannot be admitted because the Christian Inhabitants Pur-
chased great Part of the Land they at first took up from the In-
dians as well as from the Lord Proprietary and have ever since
continued in an amicable course of Trade with them except some