The Cliief Justice makes nn Aj-giiinent, tJiit we have nothing to do with Acts- of Parliament, we lia\e no Law but what the Crown allows us. Eut we kjiuw by Experience, That all Penalties by Act of Parliament ami Laws of t.iC Colony shall be severely put in Execution; wl.cn if by eitlicr lA' them the People might have a Eenefit it s'.mll do tb.em little or no good. Our Attorney-General said in Court, w!ien jjlcading about the Wliale-Fis'.iing, If there was an Act of Assembly to give the Liberty to go to Sea a Whale-Fishing, it signifits nothing. So what our Officers please is Law. I desire and hope, ibr a publick Good, t'.iat tlie Subjects in the Plantations in Jhmricu^ U)ight have the Whale-Fisliing so settled, that t'ley may be enc<;uriiged to go on t!iat Design, and be capacitated to liave Commerce with this Kingdom, to purcliase the Manufacture of t'je same. I know no Reason wliy tlie Subjects in jXtw York and JVew Jersey Governments sliould not have tlie same Liberty to Fish for Whalesasfreely as other Subjects in their Neig'.ibouring Colonies in America have, or as t'le Frenck King liatli granted his Subji cts to do, and not be deprived of liig'it and Privileges gr-m^cd to us, for which we pay an Ackuowletlgeiuent to the Crown, for Quit-Kents for our Land ti\ e Shillings, and an Ackmnvledgejuent for Priviledges fourty S'.iiilings per annum; of which t!ie Wiiale- Fisliing was most Material, and several Places in the Colony pay the same.