APPENDIX I
be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large dis-
'ricts of people, unless those pcople would relinquish the right of repre-
;entation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to
:yrants only.
He has called together Jegislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfort-
able, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole
urpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures,
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with
manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others
:o be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation,
3ave returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remain-
ing, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from with-
ut, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for
‘hat purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; re-
fusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising
:he conditions of new appropriations of lands, ;
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent
co Jaws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of
:heir offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of
fficers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies, without the
:onsent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior
‚0, the civil power.
He has combined, with others, to subject us to a jurisdietion foreign
He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent
to their acts of pretended legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders
which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring
)rovince, establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its
»oundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument
for introducing. the same absolute rule into these colonies:
