Review of the Proceedings of the Legislature of Lower Canada in the Session of 1831: With an Appendix Containing Some Important Documents Now First Given to the Public ... |
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... judge- ment in my power , I find myself unable to participate in the sentiments of admiration expressed by his Excellency , and utterly at a loss to conjecture what may have given occasion to them in his Excellency's breast . Had his ...
... judge- ment in my power , I find myself unable to participate in the sentiments of admiration expressed by his Excellency , and utterly at a loss to conjecture what may have given occasion to them in his Excellency's breast . Had his ...
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... Judges to hold seats therein , and the same was done in the last Session . These bills proceed upon the plain principle , that as the Judges hold their seats under 22 ENCROACHMENTS BY THE ASSEMBLY & THE Governor . the BY THE ASSEMBLY ...
... Judges to hold seats therein , and the same was done in the last Session . These bills proceed upon the plain principle , that as the Judges hold their seats under 22 ENCROACHMENTS BY THE ASSEMBLY & THE Governor . the BY THE ASSEMBLY ...
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... Judges , a member of the Legislative Council , directing him not to attend that body in his place ; and as if that were not sufficient , an honourable member of the Lower House was authorized to inform that House of the order which had ...
... Judges , a member of the Legislative Council , directing him not to attend that body in his place ; and as if that were not sufficient , an honourable member of the Lower House was authorized to inform that House of the order which had ...
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... judges , and which they alone could punish ; a case so widely different from that of a libel on any particular person or minister of state , that it is quite unnecessary to do more than to mark it out to your observation . For this ...
... judges , and which they alone could punish ; a case so widely different from that of a libel on any particular person or minister of state , that it is quite unnecessary to do more than to mark it out to your observation . For this ...
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... judges , whether any member of their own is or is not a fit person to sit amongst them ; and it has been argued , that if the last Parliament thought him unfit , the present has cer- tainly an equal right to adjudge that he is so . It ...
... judges , whether any member of their own is or is not a fit person to sit amongst them ; and it has been argued , that if the last Parliament thought him unfit , the present has cer- tainly an equal right to adjudge that he is so . It ...
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Page 255 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 169 - Kingdom, then and in that case it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to...
Page 75 - King, assigned to keep the peace in the said county, and also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors...
Page 75 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 78 - Republic, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page 194 - Majesty's colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America or the West Indies, except only such duties as it may be expedient to impose for the regulation of commerce, the net produce of such duties to be always paid and applied to and for the use of the colony, province, or plantation in which the same shall be respectively levied, in such manner as other duties collected by the authority of the respective General Courts or General Assemblies of such colonies, provinces, or plantations are...
Page 260 - Absence residing within our said Province of New York, shall take upon him the Administration of the Government and Execute our said Commission and Instructions, and the several powers and Authorities therein contained, in the same manner and to all intents and purposes, as other our Governor or Commander in Chief should or ought to do, in case of Your Absence, until Your Return, or in all cases until our further pleasure be known therein.
Page 193 - Treasury, or any three or more of them for the Time being, shall be...
Page 81 - ... continue in their respective offices, places, and employments for the space of six months next after such death or demise, unless sooner removed and discharged by the next...
Page 36 - No. 45, is a false, scandalous, and seditious libel, containing expressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty, the grossest aspersions against both Houses of Parliament, and the most audacious defiance of the authority of the whole legislature...