> That particular feature of this enactment was intended to impoverish the victim, if he possessed property , or to leave him to be starved, if he had none ; and the barbarism of the provision and of thoBe who framed it, was seen, subsequently, in the physical sufferings of John O'Connor and David Purdy ; and in those of the BcrghB, the Dobbscs, and Timothy Doughty, (Historical Mavmcripts, etc. : PetUiom, xxxi., 98. 96 88 TO 86 ; etc.)

«Nut 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 obedience to its Resolutions or submission to some of its arbitrary seizures of the properties of some of their law-abiding neighbors,

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

" Precinct, or District where the offender shall have " been taken up ; and if, upon examination, the suspicion 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 Eesolves, " 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." ' *******