Secret Committee Enquiry Challenge to Commons Authority
A Victorian style critique argues the House of Commons overstepped legal bounds by ordering a secret inquiry into East India Company affairs. It compares to grand juries and cites historical precedents to label the order unconstitutional and illegal, urging adherence to established common law.
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House of Commons
Gazetteer
Commons
Commons House
East-India Company
Pebic Parkie Pin’ Hort
A. Auanton
Ireland
FE Out of Commons
Examiry
London
East India Company
Ees Beis
Phiny
Freeholders Meet at Faneuil Hall Over Judge Salaries
In Bolton the freeholders and townspeople gathered at Faneuil Hall to scrutinize a report claiming salaries are fixed for the Superior Court judges, making them independent of General Assembly grants. They voted to draft a respectful message to the governor and appointed a delegation including William Phillips and Samuel Adams to deliver it.
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Lord North
the India Company
Leadenhall-Street
Codrus
Gulf
Faeneuil Hall
Superior Court of Judicature
General Assembly
William Phillips
James Otis
Samuel Adams
Joseph Warren
Benjamin Church
Timothy Newell
Thomas’ Marshall
Bolton
Faneuil-hall
Pada Ture, &c
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Literary Chronicle
UBLIC
Philo
St. Vincent’s
Public Advertiser
Tullis
Lord Sandwich
Admiralty
Taylor
Lucre
Chace
Morning Chronicle
Ng-Post
St. Stephen’s Chapel
Hart India Company
William
North
Tor
Mick
Johnstone
Creighton
Carey
Aurio
Colebrooke
Sulivan
Harley, Lecurer
Harley
St. James's Chronicle
Rusticus
America
Boston
New-England
Bostee