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G. 3.c. 1 1 1, authorizing Importation of certain Articles under Permiflion of Go - vernors -- _ 203 28
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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When Lord Delawar was governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Snauners, and Captain Newport, were appointed to be his deputy - vernors; but their ihip being feparated by a fiorm from the reft the fquadron, was in the year 16S9 wrecked on the Bermudas,
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795
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Agreement of William Henry Coulthurft, doctor in divinity* with the go - vernors of Nathaniel* Waterhoufe's charity for the purchafe of ground to erect, a church or chapel.
The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great ... 1795
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The chief officer in this place has the title of go» vcrnor - general of the Indies, to whom the Dutch go - vernors of all other fettlements are fubordinatc; and they are obliged to repair to Batavia in order to have their accounts pafled by him.
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Their requeft to have their unpopular Go - vernors removed difregard -
History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 1785
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They are defigned to prevent the abufe of power in the go - vernors; to folicit the kgiflative body for the improvement and defence of the fettlements, whofe rights and wants they reprefent; and to combine the particu - lar intereit of the trade of the colonies with the general welfare of the nation. —
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The go - vernors, indeed, received their falaries; but the police of the province was fo neglected, that no provifion was reade for the clergy •, even marriages being folemnized by juftices of the peace.
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: vernors, or to their own sons, by which their empire was often miserably torn in pieces.
Sporting Sketches 2002
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That by Vn-hingtng of Government, and putting it in the People, we Ihall bring Greater Mifchiefs upon our felves, thanthofe we feek to Avoid under our Go - vernors of God\ Appointment.
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He appoints the Waywoods or Go - vernors of Provinces, and all the Civil and Military Officers.
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