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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the said Act, a great hardship and oppression upon the poor inhabitants, and thence one wou'd infer that this Act … There is likewise reference had in the new Act to another law for appointing the number of the Assembly and registering of the Acts, and not only this law but likewise the last mention'd for paying the Assembly, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… deed. The Act discussed at length. Though in strictness of law this Act is highly prejudicial to the parish of St. … and even act beyond their Commission, contrary to law, and the usuall custom of the countrey, it was time to … the power given them by their Commission contrary to law and Instructions. I hope no fault can be found with that, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to believe) satt easier upon them without the exercise of Law, than under it; and it will not be incredible that some … or introduce it according to the rules of the Common Law of England. I found the situation of affairs too … find their unanimous, positive opinion was, (except Mr. Law's) that nothing could be done, but to give my assent to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have the opinion of those who are more conversant in the law; which may either serve to end the dispute without … circumstance of being sure to suffer the penalties of the law, from persons who farm the profitts of that tract: and … allowed Mr. Sutton three Counsellors and two Attorneys at Law, to assist him in cross-examining Messrs. Hales and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in the Court of Admiralty only, and not at the Common law, it will soon be too late to do anything on that head, … publick good, that I shou'd be wanting in justice to the poor man's charracter, if I did not transmit his letter etc., … tooke on board her near the Po. Rico shore. Altho' the poor man did not so much as designe to trade they have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as soon as possibly may be, your opinion in point of law, whether the 200 pr. ann. appropriated by this Act for … people and the last sitting the Assembly past another law for the better establishing those Courts wherein there … Popple to Mr. Fane. Encloses, for his opinion in point of law, Act of Pennsylvania, 1726, for re-emitting such bills of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Mr. Fane. Encloses, for his opinion thereon in point of law, 3 Acts of St. Kitts, 1727. (i) for regulating vestries … not only contrary to his Instructions in passing such a law without a clause to suspend its execution until H.M. … since if any complaint of exaction should want redress, no law can be brot. into the Assembly for that purpose, without …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Begins as following covering letter. Continues :This law (to tax transient factors) the inhabitants are very … whom the tax is laid) or of making their returns as by the law they are oblidged; and as St. Michaels Town is to raise … to your Lordships' consideration the state of this poor Colony, upon the welfare whereof depends the safeguard …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… kind of enterprise or more liable to injure their good union. Copy. French. 4 pp. [C.O. 152, 17. ff. 132, 133135, … Admiralty Office. 150. Mr. Burchett to Mr. Popple. H.M.S. Oxford, under Lord V. Beauclerk, and Squirrel, Capt. Osborn, … in a very wrong method, to gett the same pass'd into a law. And as I am clearly convinced that such a regulation …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… indigent criminels, it being equally inhuman that those poor wretches should perish through want of common … by the interfering of the jurisdictions of the common law, and that of the Admiralty, and H.M. subjects in those … Lords Commissioners desire your opinion in point of law, whether the said Colony have thereby any power vested in …