726 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing 

 importance, unless suspended in their operations till his assent should be 

 obtained ; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to 

 them. 



He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts 

 of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation 

 in the legislature ; a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants 

 only. 



He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, 

 and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of 

 fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. 



He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with 

 manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. 



He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to 

 be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have 

 returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the 

 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convul- 

 sions within. 



He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that pur- 

 pose, obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to 

 pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions 

 of new appropriations of lands. 



He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to 

 laws for establishing judiciary powers. 



He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their 

 offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 



He has erected a multitude of new officers, and sent hither swarms of 

 officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance. 



He has kept among us, in times of -peace, standing armies, without the 

 consent of our legislatures. 



He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the 

 civil power. 



He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our 

 constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their 

 acts of pretended legislation : 



For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ; 



For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders 

 which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States ; 



For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world ; 



For imposing taxes on us, without our consent ; 



For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury ; 



For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences ; 



For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, 

 establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, 

 so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the 

 same absolute rule into these Colonies ; 



