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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 2
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that they observe the Nature of all the Commissioners to the several
Courts of Judicature within this province And that they especially
observe any Alteration 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 imme-
diately 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
"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 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 its Dominions which by the
Blessing of God upon their Endeavours at their own Expence and
Labour has been in a great Measure obtained And 'tis unanimously
resolved that whoever shall advance that his Majestys Subjects by
such their Endeavours and Success have forfeited any part of their
English Liberties are not well Wishers to the Country and mistake
its happy Constitution
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