salaries and fees from the effects to be con-
demned by themselves; the Commissioners of the
customs are impowered to break open and enter
houses without the authority of any civil ma-
gistrate founded on legal information.
JUDGES of Courts of Common Law have been
made entirely dependent on the Crown for their
commissions and salaries.
A COURT has been established at
Rhode-
Island, for the purpose of taking Colonists to
England to be tried.
HUMBLE and reasonable petitions from the
Representatives of the people have been fre-
quently treated with contempt; and Assemblies
have been repeatedly and arbitrarily dissolved.
FROM some few instances it will sufficiently
appear, on what pretences of justice those disso-
lutions have been founded.
THE tranquillity of the colonies having been
again disturbed, as has been mentioned, by the
statutes of the year 1767, the Earl of Hills-
borough, Secretary of State, in a letter to Go-
vernor Bernard, dated
April 22, 1768, censures
the "presumption" of the House of
Representa-
tives for "resolving upon a measure of so in-
" flammatory a nature as that of writing to the
" other colonies, on the subject of their intended re-
" presentations against some late Acts of Parlia-
" ment," then declares that, "his Majesty con-