Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-06-29
POPULAR TALKS ON LAW
The Middle Colonies and vlr-
glnia.

h"uth 81 the hudson river, loIloWng
upon the discovery of that river, in
1909, by Capt. Henry Hudson. The
Dutch were great explorers, and soon
made claim To the whsle coast between
the Connecticut and Delaware river,
but la 1864, Charles IL. gave this
territory to his brother James, who
compelled the Dutch governor, by
force of arms, to surrender, and New
Netherlands became New York, james
being the Duke of York The Duke
afterwards became the King of Eng.
land, and the cslony become royal
colony; and the law-mabins power,
subject 10 the Crown, was vested in a
governor and a council appointed by
the Crown, and an assembly elected by
the people. When the Duke of York
took possession of his territory, he
granted out that part between the
Delaware river aud the ocean to lords
proprielors, but in 1872, the proprieters
surrendered their right of government
10 the Crown, and East and West Jer-
sey were uaited, and became u rsyal
colony. For some time New Jersey
had the same governor az New York,
but it always had its own assembly.
The next Oldest territory was that
which comprised the present State of
Delaware. At first it was disputed
territory. 1t lay within the grant
made to Lord Baltimore in 1889. The
Dutch claimed some settlements in
1865, which afterwards passed to the
Duke of York, by whom it was sold
in 1889 to William Penn. Lord Balti.
more surrendered his clam, and it
then became mere appsndage Of
Pennsylvania with the same governor,
although after 1903 IN independent a..
sembly, even down to the time of the
Revolution.
William Penn was the founder of
Pennsylvania; the grant to him was
made in 1851, and included about the
same territory as now occupied by
that State PENIS charter gave him
the power to enact laws conformable
to reason and the laws of England,
with the consent of the freemen of the
colony. This charter continued In
force until the Revolution, when the
State of Pennsylvania assumed all the
political powers that belonged to PENIS
descendants, paying them large sum
of money for surrendering their rights
to the soil.
Virginia was the oldest of the South.
ern Colonies. 1t may be said hat The
political history of the United States
begins with the founding of James
town ia 1907. 1t was founded by the
London Company. The London Com.
pany was created by King James l., by
the same charter that created the
Plymouth Company. These two com.
panies divided between them all
English domlniens in the New World,
the London Company receiving the
southern and the Plymouth the north.
ern territory. They were authorized
to establish colonies, each colony 10 be
subject to the King, TO be governed by
local council of the company in
England, at the King's pleasure. These
companies were short lived, The
stockholders lived in England and did
not become eolonists. They were in
deed mercantile companies clothed
with political powers. The London
Company gave to the settlement in
jamestown, a charter which gave the
people no vsIce whatever in tho gov.
ernment of the colony, but King James
IN his charter to the London and
Plymouth companies, had said: Also,
we do for us, our heirs and successors,
declare by these presents that all and
every the persons, being our subjects,
which shall 60 and inhabit within the
said colony and plantation, and every
their children and posterity, which
shall happen to be born within any of
the limits thereof, shall have and en-
joy ali liberties, franchises and immu-
mites of free denizens and natural
subjects within any of our other
dominions, to all intents and purposes,
as if they had been abiding and born
within this, our realm of England. or
in any other Of our domInions." This
was a guarantee and was irrevocable,
unless by consent of both parties, and
in aftertimes it became the great bull
wark Of colonial rights and liberties.
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