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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 the 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 Resolves, 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.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
Oct. 24
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"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
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 Ex-
pence and Labour, has been in a great Measure obtained; And 'tis
Unanimously Resolved, That whoever shall advance, that his Maj-
esty's 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 Infidels; which Suppo-
sition cannot be admitted, because the Christian Inhabitants pur-
chased 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
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