^That particular feature of this enactment was intended to imiioverish the victim, if he possesseil property , or to leave him to be starved, if he had none ; and the barbarism of the jirovision an<l of those who framed it, was seen, sul>se<|uently, in the physical sufferings of .John O'Connor and Daviil I'nrdy ; and in those of the Berghs, the Dohbses, and Timothy Doughty, (//i«/«)i<<i; Mmmscripls, etc.: Pelilion*, xx.xi., 98, 90, 88, 70, ;ifi ; etc.)

< N\>t long after this enactment was made, the Committee of Westchester-county, as will be seen, hereafter, called for and received the armed assistance of men of Connecticut, to enforce ol.>edience to its Resolutions or submission to some of its arbitrary seizures of the properties of some of their law-abiding neighbors.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

" Precinct, or District where the offender shall have " been taken up ; and if, upon examination, the sus- " picion shall appear to the said Committee to be "groundless, that he be discharged: Provided, "also, that no person charged to be an offender " shall be tried upon any of the foregoing Resolves, " until the persons to be Judges of the offence be " first severally sworn to try and adjudge the person " so charged, without partiality, favour, or affection, " or hope of reward, according to evidence ; and that " every witness who shall be examined on such trial "shall have the. charge distinctly and clearly stated "to him ; and be thereupon sworn to speak the truth, " the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." ' *******