The Act of 3d George the Third, chapter 22, section 8th, being read, and debates arising thereon, the question was put, whether the sum directed therein to be given as Security by claimants of vessels, is a grievance? The same passed in the negative, in manner following, viz:

4th. Resolved, there/ore, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the sum directed in the said last mentioned Act, to be given as security by claimants of vessels, is not a grievance.

5th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the ninth section of said last mentioned Act, giving the Courts of Admiralty a concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts of Common Law in causes arising within the body of a County, and thereby leaving it in the power of the prosecutor to deprive the subject of a trial by Jury of the vicinage; and the Act of 8th George the Third, chapter 22, giving similar powers to Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are grievances.

6th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Act of 4th George the Third, chapter 34, is a grievance, inasmuch as it prohibits the Legislature of this Colony from passing any law for the emission of a paper currency, to be a legal tender within the Colony, so advantageous to the growth and commerce of this Colony; the want whereof might, in a great measure, disable his Majesty's subjects here, upon proper requisition, from granting such aids as may be necessary for the general weal and safety of the British Empire.

7th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Act of 6th George the Third, chapter 52, so far as the same lays a duty on Molasses and Syrups, or Coffee, and on Pimento, of the growth or produce of any British Colony or Plantation in America, which shall be imported or brought from thence into any other British Colony or Plantation in America, is a grievance.

8th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Act of 7th George the Third, chapter 46, raising a Revenue for, making provision for defraying the charge of the administration of justice, and the support of Civil Government, is a grievance, as it lays a duty on Tea, which is a commodity we are obliged to get from England, and prohibited from importing from any other place; as it raises a Revenue for the support of Government, and the administration of justice in the Colonies, independent of the people, is contrary to, and a revocation of that system of rights and privileges on which the Government of the Colonies hath been established; as it deprives the Legislatures of the Colonies of that check and control upon the servants of the publick, which the Parliament hath in Great Britain, and deprives the subjects in the Colonies of the rights and privileges which they always, before the passing of that Act, have been esteemed entitled to, and of right enjoy, equal with the people of Great Britain.

9th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Act of 7th George the Third, chapter 59, requiring the Legislature of this Colony to provide for the services therein mentioned, without application made to the Representatives of the people of this Colony, in General Assembly, and holding up by any other Acts a suspension of the legislative powers of this Colony, until such requisition be complied with, is a grievance, dangerous to the rights of his Majesty's subjects in this Colony.

10th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Act of 12th George the Third, chapter 24, entitled "An Act for the better securing and preserving his Majesty's Dock-Yards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition and Stores," as it deprives the American subject of a trial by Jury of the vicinage, and authorizes the trial of persons charged with committing certain offences out of the Realm, in any Shire or County within the Realm, is dangerous to the liberties of the subject.

11th. Resolved; That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the construction of the Statute of 35th Henry the Eighth, chapter 2, as held up by both Houses of Parliament, in their Address to his Majesty, in the ninth year of his reign, recommending the issuing a special commission for inquiring of Treasons, and misprision of Treasons, committed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in order to have the offenders, if any there were, tried in Great Britain, is a grievance.

12th. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Statute of 14th George the Third, chapter 88, so far as it imposes Duties upon certain articles of Merchandise imported into the Province of Quebec, (which, by another Statute of the same year, chapter 83, is so extended, as to comprehend all the Indian country from Hudson's Bay to the mouth of the River Ohio,) is a grievance; as by the said Statutes the grand commerce formerly carried on from this Colony, with the numerous Indian natives, is in a great measure destroyed; and by which the beneficial and useful intercourse with them is almost entirely cut off, as the only place by which the dutied articles may be imported into the said Province, is restricted to the Port of St. John's, on the River Sorel, which is so extremely remote from the other Colonies, that the carrying of Goods to be entered there to prosecute the Indian Trade, must necessarily be attended with such a heavy expense, as to amount to a total prohibition. That the discrimination made in the said Statute of 14th George the Third, chapter 88, in favour of the Sugar Colonies, by subjecting the Continental Colonies to a larger Duty on the dutied articles, is a grievance. And that the said Statute of 14th George the Third, chapter 83, so far as it may be construed to establish the Roman Catholick Religion in the Province of Quebec, so extended, is a grievance.

The Act of 14th George the Third, entitled "An Act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America;" being read, and debates arising thereon, and the question being put, whether the same is a grievance that affects this Colony? it was carried in the affirmative, in manner following, viz:

13th. Resolved therefore, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the last mentioned act is a grievance. Mr. Nicoll, Mr. Kissam, and Mr.Rapalje, conceive the above Act to be a grievance, so far as the same affects the Trade of this Colony.

14th. Resolved, That the Act of 14th George the Third, chapter 39, entitled "An Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the Law, or for the suppression of Riots and Tumults in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England," so far as the same may establish a dangerous precedent in America, is a grievance.

The Act of 14th George the Third, chapter 45, entitled "An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England," being read, the question was put, whether the same is a grievance? And debates arising thereon, it Was carried in the affirmative, in manner following, viz:

15th. Resolved therefore, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the last mentioned Act is a grievance.

Mr. Nicoll, Mr. Kissam, and Mr. Gale, conceived that the aforesaid Act, so far as the same may form a precedent for altering or taking away Charter rights granted to the subjects in America, contrary to the ordinary course of law, is a grievance.

After some time spent thereon, and having gone through the same, Mr. Speaker took the Chair, and Colonel Seaman reported, that he was directed to make the following Report to the House, to wit: