All Laws proposed to be made by this Provincial Legislature, pass thro' each of the Houses' of Council and Assembly, as Bills do thro' the House of Commons and House of Lords in England and the Governor has a Negative voice in the making and passing of all such Laws. Every Law so

passed is to be transmitted to His Majesty under the Great Seal of the Province, within Three months or sooner after the making thereof and a Duplicate by the next conveyance, in order to be approved or disallowed by his Majesty;

And if His Majesty shall disallow any such Law and the same is signified to the Governor under the

Royal Sign Manual or by Order of his Majesty's Privy Council A law of the Province has limited the duration

from thenceforth such law becomes utterly void. of the Assembly to seven years.

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The Common Law of England is considered as the Fundamental law of the Province and it is the received Doctrine that all the Statutes (not Local in their Nature, and which can be fitly applied to the circumstances of the Colony) enacted before the Province had a Legislature are binding upon the Colony, but that Statutes passed since do not affect the Colony, unless by being specially named, such appears to be the Intentions of the British Legislature. The Province has a Court of Chancery in which the Governor or Commander in chief sits as Chancellor and the Practice of the Court of Chancery in England