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The following Resolves, Ordered to be entered as the Resolves of
this House
Resolved by the House, That the Members who are appointed as
Members of the Committee of Aggrievances, have likewise the
Character of a Committee for Courts of Justice, and that that Char-
acter, and the Duty of such Committee, be annexed to the said Com-
mittee of Aggrievances as a standing Part of their Duty. And
that it be an Instruction to the said Committee, as a Committee
of Courts of Justice, that they observe the nature of all the Com-
missions to the several Courts of Judicature within this Province,
and that they especially observe any Alterations that may at any
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
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Time happen by accidental Omission, or otherwise, therein: and
particularly 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 Alteration that shall at any Time happen in such Commis-
sion, and likewise to have Regard as near as may be to observe
wherein they differ from the Forms of the several Sorts of Com-
missions to the Judges and Justices in England.
Likewise Resolved, That it be an Instruction to the said Commit-
tee, 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
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
ludges 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 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 Session, 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 Circumstances
of a conquered Country, that if it were the present Christian Inhabi-
tants thereof would in be in the Circumstances, 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 Bless-
ing 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 Majesty's Subjects, by such
their Endeavours and Success have forfeited any Part of their
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