The Duty of the
Clerk of the Assem-
bly.
Maryland Not Con-
quered but Ac-
quired.
And How.
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Judges in England and resolved to be necessary
here. viz:
" 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 oi
"' the King, the Lord Proprietary or of any other
" or tor any other cause. But it such Letters
" come to them, they shall proceed to do the Law
"the same Letters notwithstanding."
And that 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 o{ 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 Inhabitants there-
of would be in the Circumstance, not oi the
Conquered, but of the Conquerers, It being a
Colony of the English Nation, encouraged by
the Crown to transplant themselves hither for
the Sake oi improving and enlarging it's Do-
minions, which, by the Blessing of God upon their
Endeavours, at their own E-xpence 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 forfeit-
ed Any Part of their English Liberties—are ill
Wishers to the Country and mistake it's happy
Constitution.
Resolved also, That it there be any Pretense of
Conquest, it can be only Supposed against the Na-
tive Indian Infidels, which Supposition 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 Gen-
eral Conquest, the Indians yet enjoying their
Rights and Privileges of Treaties and Trade with
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