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 province? Provincial laws may grant to certain individuals of the province the enjoyment of gainful, or an immunity from onerous offices; they may operate upon the people to whom they relate; but no province can confer provincial privileges on itelf. They may have a right to all which the King has given them; but it is a conceit of the other hemiphere, that men have a right to all which they have given to themelves.

is conidered in law as an individual, and can no more extend its own immunities, than a man can by his own choice aume dignities or titles.

Legilature of a Colony, let not the comparion be too much didained, is only the vetry of a larger parih, which may lay a ces on the inhabitants, and enforce the payment; but can extend no influence beyond its own ditrict, mut