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474 Juries. A second measure, known as the, extended the boundaries of Canada, so as to include within them the region on the Ohio and the Mississippi, the area of the present States of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio, thus reversing the decision of Shelburne in 1763. Over this enormous territory it established the rule of a military Governor and a nominated council. The ministers who proposed and defended the Bill hardly concealed their hope that the Roman Catholic population of Canada would allow itself to be used as an instrument to overawe the Protestant settlers in New England. It would have been far better, said Shelburne, to have given the rights of citizens to the Roman Catholics before making them soldiers; "they would now, no doubt, willingly employ the arms in their hands to destroy the privileges of which they were not suffered to partake." A third measure transferred the place of trial of civil officers and soldiers, indicted for any capital offence committed in supporting the Revenue laws, or in suppressing riots, to Great Britain. Two other Acts legalized the quartering of troops within Boston or any other town. All these measures were passed by large majorities, and a proposal of Burke, on the 19th of April 1774, to repeal the Tea Duty was contemptuously rejected. Equally vain were the efforts which Shelburne made in the House of Lords, where he insisted again and again on the true nature of the connection between England and her Colonies. "I