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firmed.* In the spirit of this treaty, the Provincial 

 Council formed a company of traders exclusively au- 

 thorized to repress the inebriety of the nations, and to 

 impress upon them a sense of the christian reUgion by 

 examples of probity and candor. 



While busily employed in promoting the temporal 

 welfare of the Indians, and improving the condition of 

 the colonists, he received intelligence from England that 

 measures were agitated to reduce all the proprietary 

 governments in America to royal ones, which induced 

 him to change his mind, and he at once determined to 

 return to Europe, as soon as he had some frame of 

 government firmly established. The assembly met 

 September 15, 1701. A form of government was estab- 

 lished, that gave the representatives of the people the 

 right of originating laws, which was before solely vested 

 in the Governor: it allowed the Governor the veto 

 power on bills passed by the assembly: also the right of 

 appointing his council, and of exercising the whole ex- 

 ecutive power. Soon after the formation of this frame 

 of government, Penn returned to England. He sailed 

 from Philadelphia, November 1st, 1701; before his de- 

 parture, he appointed Andrew Hamilton, Esq., Deputy 

 Governor, and James Logan, Secretary of the province 

 and clerk of the council. 



*Proud. 



