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Resolved Unanimously, That the following be Entered on the
Journal, as the Resolves of this House, viz.t
Resolved by the House, That the Members who are appointed as
Members of the Committee of Aggrievances, have likewise the Char-
acter 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
to be an Instruction to the said Committee of Courts of Justice, that
they observe the Nature of all the Commissions to the several Courts
of Judicature within this Province; and that they especially observe
any Alterations that may at any 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
Commission; and likewise 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 Com-
mittee, 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 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.t
To do equal Law and Right to all the King's 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 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 In-
habitants thereof would be in the Circumstances, not of the Con-
quered, but of the Conqueror, it being a Colony of the English
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Sept. 30
p. 10
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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 Unani-
mously Resolved, That whoever shall advance, that his Majesty's
Subjects, by such their Endeavours and Success, have forfeited any
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