The History of Pennsylvania From Its Discovery By Europeans to the Declaratio
The History of Pennsylvania From Its Discovery By Europeans to the Declaratio
Thomas Francis Gordon
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The amount received for tavern licenses, and fines and for- feitures, formed a considerable portion of the proprietary income, and justified the fears of the people, that their gover- nors would become independent. By the true construction of the charter, these rights of the proprietary were appur- 1707] HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 143 tenant to his political character; he was the receiver for the public of these funds, which were subject to the disposition of the law. This ground was not at first... taken by the popu- lar leaders, who assented to the proprietary claims, and defended their appropriation by the necessity of granting them to the queen, in case the government should be sur- rendered. The governor endeavoured to strengthen himself by in- creasing the power of his council. He had made it a formal party in his objections to the judiciary bill, and required that the equity court should be constituted from its members. But the house refused to recognise that body in any other character than an executive council, the creature of the go- vernor's pleasure, called to advise him, but having no legisla- tive power, nor pretension to obtrude its sentiments upon them.
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