The first of these Resolutions, following the general sentiment of the Colonists, acknowledged the Faith and Allegiance to the King which were due to him from " the people of this Colony." The second acknowledged that the Colonists " owe obedience to all " Acts of Parliaments calculated for the general weal " of the whole Empire and the due regulation of the " Trade and Commerce thereof, and not inconsistent " with the essential Rights and Liberties of English- " men, to which they are equally entitled with their " fellow-subjects in Great Britain.'' The third declared " that ic is essential to Freedom and the un- " doubted Right of Englishmen, that no Taxes be " imposed on them but with their consent, given per- " sonally or by their Representatives in General As- " sembly." The fourth maintained "that the Acts of " Parliament, raising a Revenue in America especially "to provide for the support of the Civil Government '" and administration of Justice in the Colonies, ex- " tending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty "beyond their ancient limits, authorizing the Judge's " Certificate to indemnify the Prosecutor from Dam- " ages he would otherwise be liable to, giving them a " concurrent Jurisdiction of Causes heretofore cog- " nizable only in the Courts of Common Law, and by " that means depriving the American Subject of his " Trial by a Jury, are destructive to Freedom, and " subversive of the Rights and Liberties of the Colo- " nies." The fifth and last of these Resolutions declared " that a Trial by a Jury of the Vicinage, in all "Capital Cases, is the grand Security of Freedom and " the Birthright of Englishmen ; and, therefore, that " the seizing any Person or Persons, residing in this "Colony, suspected of Treasons, Misprisions of " Treason, or any other Offences, and sending such "Person or Persons out of the same, to be tried, is dan- " gerous to the Lives and Liberties of His Majesty's " American Subjects." 6