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and that they Especially observe any alterations that may at any time
happen by Accidental Omission or otherwise therein, and particu-
larly relating to such words therein as require the Several 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 the House of any Altera-
tions that shall at any time Happen in such Commission, And like-
wise to have regard as near as may be to observe wherein they
Differ from the forms of the several Sorts of Commissions to the
Judges and Justices in England.
Likewise Resolved that it be an Instruction to the said Committee
to Inspect the form of the Oaths of office that have been and now are
usually taken by the Several Magistrates, and that in case the fol-
lowing Clause be not incerted in the said Oath it be reported to the
House, such Clause being agreable to the Oath taken by the Judges
in England and resolved to be necessary Here Viz.
To do equal Law and right to all the Kings Subjects rich and Poor
and not delay any Person of Common right for the Letters of the
King, the Lord Proprietary's 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 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 Inhab-
itants thereof would be in the Circumstance, not of the Conquered
but of the Conqueror, It being a Colony of the English Nation
Encouraged by the Crown to Transplant themselves hither for the
sake of Improving and Enlarging it's 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
Resolved that whoever shall advance that his Majesties Subjects by
such their Endeavours and Success have forfeited any part of their
English Liberties are not well Wishers to the Country and mistake
it's Happy Constitution.
Resolved also, that if there be any pretence of Conquest it can be
only supposed 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 partial outrages
and Skirmishes, which never amounted to a General War, much less
to a General Conquest, the Indians yet Enjoying their Rights and
Priviledges of Treaties and trade with the English, of whom we yet
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