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A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island; With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American Revolution

A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island; With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American Revolution


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... the advice of the council, had the exclusive power of legislation, and could make what laws he pleased, and could alter and repeal them when he pleased. Some of the amendments to the original code, purport to have been made at the court of assize, of which the justices of the several towns formed a part. This was not a legislative but ajudicial body, and the power of the justices, with regard to legislation, was probably like that of the parliament of France before the revolution, merely to register the edicts made by the governor and council. So far as they were permitted to interfere, the indulgence was calculated, if not intended, to lessen the responsibility of the governor, without diminishing his power. It is certain that their presence or concurrence was not necessary, and that the act imposing duties establishing an excise, and many other important acts, were adopted by the goVernor in council, and not at the court of assize. The people never considered the justices as their representatives, and censured the acts made at the court of assize, as much as others. The governor presided in the court of assize, which, by appeal, had the control of all inferior tribunals. The judgments and decrees of this court were probably such as the governor dictated; his assistants not oeing colleagues, but merely advisers, who held their authority under him and were dependent on him. Smith, in his history of New-York, supposes this court was established by Got. Lovelace. This is a great mistake: It was established by Nicolls in the code he had compiled for the government of the colony, and published in the assembly at Hemp-atead, March 1st, 1665. In the fall of the same year, the three last days in September, and the second, third and fourth days in...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150821707
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150821701
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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