The Review of American Colonial Legislation By the King in Council
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» Act for " The Service of God. " CO/5-725, P- I79- ' Acts and Resolves, vol. Ii, 67, ch. 3. A similar criticism was made against an act of South Carolina for issuing bills of credit, CO/5-402, p. 158; December, 1748. Board to the Governor of the Leeward Islands, C. S. P. , 1700, p. 736. Comment of Bellomont upon laws transmitted, C. S. P. , 1700, p. 529. * Pa. Stats. , vol. I, p. 464. » CO/5-1263, N, 40. 144 REVIEW OF COLONIAL LEGISLATION [562 sion of equity in express words which the Board ch...arac- terized as absurd ; ^ while Maryland required masters of vessels importing convicts to bring a transcript of their conviction under seal of the court, something which, in England, they had no authority to obtain.^ Penalties imposed by criminal legislation were in many cases excessively severe. This was particularly true of early legislation in the Puritan colonies and in Pennsyl- vania, where offences were made capital in accordance with the word of God. "If by the word is ment the Mosaical law, " says an early report upon Massachusetts laws, " the patent will not in many instances be fit to be followed by Christians, for example, to make it death to gather sticks on the Sabbath and many others.
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