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 per intending Power ^ Great Britain o-y^r the Co'* 
 
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 WHEREAS, by an Ad 6 Geo. III. it is declared; 
 that Parliament has full Power and Autho- 
 rity to make Laws and Statutes to bind the Peo- 
 ple of the Colonies, in All Cafes whatfoever. And 
 whereas, reiterated Complaints and moil dangerous 
 Diforders have grown, touching the Right of 
 Taxation claimed and exercifed over America ; 
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 and to the aclual Interruption of the due Inter- 
 courfe from Great Britain and Ireland to the Co- 
 lonies ; deeply affeding" the Navigation, Trade and 
 Manufadlures of this Kingdom, and of Ireland, 
 and announcing farther an Interruption of all Ex- 
 ports from the faid Colonies to Creat Britain, Ire- 
 land, and the Britifti Iflands in America. Now, 
 for Prevention of thefe Ruinous Mifchiefs, and in 
 Order to an Equitable, Honorable and Lafting Set- 
 tlement of Claims not fufficiently afcertained and 
 circumfcribed. May it pleafe your moft Excellent 
 Majefty, that it may be declared, and be it de- 
 clared, by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by 
 and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords 
 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this 
 prefent Parliament afTembled, and by the Authority 
 of the fame, that the Colonies of America have 
 been, are, and of Right ought to be. Dependent 
 upon the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, and 
 Subordinate unto the Britifh Parliament ; and that the 
 Kipg's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Ad- 
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 vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tern- 
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 hath, and of Right ought to have, full Power and 
 ' Authority to make Laws and Statutes of fufEcient 
 Force and Validity to bind the People of the 
 Britifh Colonies in America, in All Matters touch- 
 ing the general Weal of the whole Dominion of 
 the Imperial Crown of Gre it Britain, and beyond 
 the Competency of the Local Reprefentative of a 
 diftina Colony; and moft efpecially an indubi- 
 table and indifpenfible Right to make and ordain 
 Laws for regulating Navigation and Trade through- 
 out the complicated Syftem of Britifh Commerce ; 
 the- deep Policy of fuch prudent Ads upholding 
 the Guardian Navy of the whole Britifh Empire : 
 and that All Subjeds in the Colonies are bound in 
 Duty and Allegiance duly to recognize and obey 
 (and They are Hereby required fo to do) the Su- 
 preme Legiflative Authority and Superintending Po- 
 wer of the Parliament of Great Britain, as aforefaid. 
 And whereas, ui a Petition from America to his 
 
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 Majelly, it has been reprefented, that the keeping 
 a Standing Army within any of the Colonies, in 
 Time of Peace, without Gonfent of the refpedlive 
 Provincial Affembly There, is againfl Law : be it de- 
 clared by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and 
 with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual ' 
 and Temporal, and Commons in this prefent Par- 
 liament affembled, that the Declaration of Right, 
 at the Ever Glorious Revolution, namely, ** that the 
 ** raifing and keeping a Standing Army within the 
 Kingdom, in Time of Peace, unlefs it be by 
 Confent of Parliament, is againft Law,'* hav- 
 ing Reference only to the Confent of the Parliament 
 of Great Britain, the Legal, Conftitutional, and Hi- 
 therto Unqueftioned Prerogative of the Crown, to 
 fend any Part of fuch Army, fo lawfully Kept, to 
 any of the Britiih Dominions and Pofleflions, whe- 
 ther in America or Elfewhere, as His Majefty, ia 
 the due Caro of his Subjects, may judge neceffary 
 for the Security and Protection of the fame, can- 
 not be rendered Dependent upon the Gonfent of a 
 
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 Provincial Affembly in the Colonies, without a moil 
 dangerous Innovation and Derogation from the Dig- 
 nity of the Imperial Crown of Great Britain. Ne- 
 verthelefs, in order to quiet and difpel groundlefs 
 Jealoufies and Fears, be it Hereby declared, that 
 no Military Force, however Raifed and Kept accord- 
 ing to Law, can ever be Lawfully Employed to Vio- 
 late and Deftroy the Juft Rights of the People. 
 
 Moreover, in order to remove for Ever, All Caufes 
 of pernicious Difcords, and in due Contemplation of 
 the vaft Increafe of Poffeflions and Population in 
 the Colonies ; and having at Heart to render the 
 Condition of fo great a Body of induftrious SubjeAs 
 there, more and more happy, by the Sacrednefs of 
 Property, and of Perfonal Liberty ; and of more ex- 
 tenfive and lafting Utility to the Parent-Kingdom^ 
 by indifToluble Ties of mutual Affe6lion, Confi- 
 dence, Trade, and reciprocal Benefits ; be it de- 
 clared and ena<5led by the King's moft Excellent 
 Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of 
 
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 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons 
 in this prefent Parliament affembled ; and it is here- 
 by declared and enadcd, by the Authority of the 
 fame, that no Tallage, Tax, or other Charge for 
 His Majefty's Revenue, (hall be commanded or le- 
 vied from Britidi Freemen in America, without 
 common Confent, by Ad: of Provincial Aflembly 
 there, duly convened for that Purpofe. And it is 
 'hereby further declared and enabled, by the King's 
 moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice 
 and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
 Commons in this prefent Parliament aifembled, and by 
 tlie Authority of the fame, that it (hall and may 
 be lawful for Delegates from the refpedlive Pro- 
 vinces, lately aflembled at Philadelphia, to meet 
 in general Congrefs at the faid Philadelphia, on 
 the Ninth Day of May next enfuing, in order Then 
 and There to take into Conlideration the making 
 due Recognition of the Supreme Legiflative Autho- 
 rity and Superintending Power of Parliament over 
 the Colonies, as aforefaid. And moreover, May 
 
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 it plcafe your moft Excellent Majcfly, that the 
 fuid Delegates to be in Gongrefs aflTembled in man- 
 ner aforefaid, may be required, and the fame are 
 Hereby required, by the Kings Majefty fitting in 
 his Parliament, to take into Confide ration, (over 
 and above the ufual Charge for Support of Civil 
 Government in the refpedive Colonies) the making 
 a Free Grant to the King, his Heirs and Succef- 
 fors, of a Certain Perpetual Revenue, fubjeA to the 
 Difpofition of the Briti(h Parliament, to be by Them 
 appropriated, as They in their Wifdom fhall judge 
 fit, to the Alleviation of the National Debt: no 
 doubt being had, but the Juft, Free Aid will be in 
 fuch honorable Proportion, as may feem meet and 
 becoming from Great and Flourifhing Colonies to- 
 wards a Parent-Country, labouring under the Hea- 
 vieft I/urthens, ( which in no inconfiderable Part ) 
 have been willingly taken upon Ourfelves and Pofterity, 
 for the Defence, Extenfion and Profperity of the 
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 clared and enaded, that the General Gongrefs 
 (to m^et at Philadelphia as aforefaid) fhall be and 
 is Hereby authorifed and empowered, (the Delegates, 
 compofing the Same being firft fuificiently furnifhed 
 with Powers from their refpedlive Provinces for 
 this Purpofe) to Adjuft and Fix the Repartitions and 
 Quotas of the feveral Charges to be borne by each 
 Province refpedively, towards the General Contri- 
 butory Supply J and this in fuch Fair and Equitable 
 Meafure, as may beft fuit the Abilities and due 
 Convenience of All. Provided always, that the 
 Powers for fixing the faid Quotas, Hereby given to 
 the Delegates from the Old Provinces compofmg 
 the Gongrefs, fhall not extend to the New Provinces 
 of Eaft and Weft Florida, Georgia, Nova Scotia, 
 St. John's and Canada; the Circumftances and 
 Abilities of the faid Provinces being referved for 
 the Wifdom of Parliament in their dus Time.. 
 And in order to afford neceflary Time for Mature 
 Deliberation in America, be it Hereby declared, that 
 
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the Provifions for Afcertaining and Fixing the Exercife 
 of the Right of Taxation in the Colouies, as 
 agreed and exprefled by this prefent Ad, Ihall not 
 be in Force, or have any Operation, until the 
 Delegates to be in Gongrefs affembled, fufEciently 
 authorifed and empowered by their refpedlive Pro- 
 vinces to this End, ihall, as an indifpenfable Con- 
 dition, have duly recognized the Supreme Legiflative 
 Authority and Superintending Power of the Parlia- 
 ment of Great Britain over the Golonies, as afore- 
 faid. Always underftood, that the Free Grant of an 
 Aid as here-before required and expected from the Co- 
 lonies, is not to be confidered as a Condition of. 
 Redrefs, but as a Juft Teftimony of their AfFedion. 
 And whereas, divers Ads of Parliament have been 
 humbly reprefented in a Petition to His Majefly 
 from America j to have been found Grievous, in 
 Whole or in Part, to the Subjeds of the Colonies^, 
 be it Hereby declared, by the King's mofl Excellent 
 Majefly, by and with the Advice and Confent of 
 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in 
 this prefent Parliament affembled, and. by the Au- 
 
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 thority of the fame, that the Powers of Admiralty 
 and Vice-Admiralty Courts in America, (hall be 
 Tcftrained within their Ancient Limits, and the Trial 
 by Jury, in all Civil Cafes, where the fame may 
 have been abolifhed, reftored ; and that no Subjecfl 
 in America fhall, in Capital Cafes, be liable to be 
 indidled and tried for the fame, in any Place out 
 of the Province, wherein fuch Offence (hall be 
 alledged to have been committed ; nor be deprived 
 of a Trial of his Peers of the Vicinage : nor fhall 
 it be lawful to fend Perfons indicted for Murder, 
 in any Province of America, to another Colony, or 
 to Great Britain, for Trial. And it is Hereby declared 
 and enacted, by the Authority aforefaid, that all 
 and every the faid Adls, or fo much thereof as are 
 reprefented to have been found Grievous, namely, the 
 feveral Ads of the 4 Geo. III. ch. 15, and ch. 34; 
 5 Geo. III. ch. 25 J 6 Geo. III. ch. 52 ; 7 Geo. III. 
 ch. 41, and ch. 46; 8 Geo. III. ch. 22; 
 12 Geo. III. ch. 24; with the three Ads, for 
 flopping the Port and blocking up the Harbour of 
 Bc^on, for altering the Charter and Government of 
 
 •Maifa- 
 
. Maffachufets Bay, and that entitled, "Aff Ad for the 
 ^ " better Adminiftration of Juftice, &c." Alfo, the Ad 
 for regulating the: Government of Quebec, and the 
 A(5l, paiTed in the fame SefTion,. relating to the 
 Quarters of Soldiers, fhall be, and arc Hereby- fuf- 
 pended, and not to have Effea or Execution, from 
 the Date of this Ad. And be it moreover Hereby dcr 
 Glared and enaded, by the Authority aforefaid, that 
 All and Every the before-recited A6ls, or, the Parts 
 thereof complained of, fhall be, and are, in Virtue 
 of this prefeiit Adl, finally Repealed and Annulled, 
 from the Day that the dde Recognition of the 
 Supreme Legiflative Atithority and Superintending 
 Power of Parliament over the Colonies, fhall have 
 been made on the Part of the faid Colonies. 
 
 And for the better fecuring Due and Impartial 
 Adminiflration of Juflice in the Colonies, be it 
 declared and enaaed,. by the King's mofl Excellent 
 Majefly, by. and. with the Advice and Confent of 
 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons 
 in this prefent Parliament affembled, that His Majefly's 
 
 ^ Judges 
 
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 Judges in Courts of Law in the Colonies of America, 
 to be appointed witii Salaries by the Crown, (hall 
 hold their Offices and Salaries as His Majefty's judges 
 in England, quam diu fe bene gejferint. And it 
 is Hereby farther declared, by the Authority aforefaid, 
 
 that the Colonies in America are juftly entitled to 
 the Privileges, Franchifes and Immunities granted by 
 their feveral Charters or Conftitutions, and that the 
 faid Charters or Conftitutions ought not to be invaded 
 or refumed, unLefs for Mifufer, or fome Legal Ground 
 of Forfeiture. So (hall true Reconcilement avert im-' 
 pending Calamities, and this moft folemn national Ac- 
 cord between Great Britain and her Colonies, ftand an 
 Everlafting Monument of Clemency and Magnanimity 
 in the Benignant Father of his People ; of Wifdom 
 knd Moderation iii this Great Nation, famed for 
 Humanity as for Valour; and of Fidelity atld Grate- 
 fiil Affedioh ftoirh Brave and Loyal -Cobnies to 
 their Pareht - Kingdom, Wlii<ili "will ei^er prote<9b 
 jand cheriih Them. ' ■■'■' 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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