The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political ScienceJohns Hopkins University, 1903 - Social sciences |
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Page 275 - Assembly, signed by the President of the Council, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Page 316 - Parliament' in that of England. A body of permanent laws was then adopted, which, for their comprehensiveness and arrangement, are almost entitled to the name of 'code.' They formed the substratum of the statute law of the province, even down to the Revolution...
Page 309 - ... dealings London merchants had for years acted as bankers and brokers for the planters of the colonies. To turn to the effects of the law, hardly a year had passed when we find an act to relieve some individuals from the charges of prosecutions for not burning the tobacco as required by the act of I733,*0 which suggests that as a remedy for the glut in tobacco it was not a complete success. On the financial side we find, as we might expect, that the bills depreciated in value, and thus embarrassed...