with those required by two other subsequent Sta-
tutes, which were declared to be in force until
the twenty fourth day of March 1769.
THESE Statutes of the year 1767 revived
the apprehensions and discontents, that had en-
tirely subsided on the repeal of the Stamp Act;
and amidst the just fears and jealousies thereby
occasioned, a Statute was made in the next year
(1768) to establish Courts of Admiralty and Vice
Admiralty on a new model, expressly for the
end of more effectually recovering the penalties
and forfeitures inflicted by Acts of Parliament,
framed for the purpose of raising a revenue in
America, &c.
THE immediate tendency of these statutes is,
to subvert the right of having a share in legis-
lation, by rendering Assemblies useless; the
right of property, by taking the money of the
Colonists without their consent; the right of
trials by jury, by substituting in their place tri-
als in Admiralty and Vice-Admiralty Courts,
where single Judges preside, holding their Com-
missions during pleasure; and unduely to
in-
fluence the Courts of common law, by render-
ing the Judges thereof totally dependant on
the Crown for their salaries.
THESE statutes, not to mention many others
exceedingly exceptionable, compared one with
another, will be found, not only to form a re-
gular system, in which every part has great force,
but also a pertinacious adherence to that system,
for subjugating these Colonies, that are not,