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Pagina 264 - You are not to prefer any minister to any ecclesiastical benefice in that our province, without a certificate from the right reverend father in God the lord bishop of London, of his being conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England, and of a good life and conversation...
Pagina 81 - Be it therefore enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof, it is enacted, that an act entitled "An act for the more effectual securing to His Majesty the allegiance of his subjects, in this his colony and dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Pagina 385 - America, including all the said colonies: [Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina...
Pagina 36 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Pagina 413 - Jersey : Containing, an Account of its first Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and present Constitution, and other events, to the Year 1721. With some particulars since ; and a short view of its present state.
Pagina 260 - ... by some that they might the better justify the contempt they had of them, that from the first appearance of day in the morning on every Sunday, to the shutting in of the light, the church was never empty.
Pagina 30 - See three spirited letters on public affairs written in May, June and July, 1774, in IQ Leake's Memoir of the Life and Times of Gen. John Lamb, pp. 84-92. There is another letter of Dr. Young, dated 25 March, 1774, written on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence to their brethren in Salem...
Pagina 385 - Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man. family, or class of men, therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old or establish a new government.
Pagina 72 - Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council, and House of Representatives, that whoever, whether community or private person, hath any Barberry Bushes standing or growing in his or their Land, within any of the Towns in this Province, he or they shall cause the same to be extirpated or destroyed on or before the thirteenth Day of June, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty.
Pagina 385 - And sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston." Yet internal evidence seems to indicate that it was written before the meeting of the Albany Congress. One sentence reads: Will not the Commissioners from the several Colonies, and it is to be hoped a Majority will attend, in the first Place consider the Danger we are in at this Point of Time?

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