 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...be devised and agreed upon; and did instruct their said delegates, in the doing thereof, " to take the greatest care to secure to this colony, in the strongest and most perfect manner, the present established form, and all the powtrs of government, so far as relate to its infernal police... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...implication, or construction, of which the instructions of Rhode Island, in May, 1776, are a specimen: "Taking the greatest care to secure to this Colony,...the strongest and most perfect manner, its present form and all powers of government, so far as it relates to its internal police, and conduct of our... | |
 | Frank Greene Bates - History - 1898 - 238 pages
...a doctrine of which was expressed in the instructions to the Congressional delegates, in May, 1776, "to secure to this colony in the strongest and most...established form, and all the powers of government, as far as it relates to its internal police and conduct of our own affairs civil and religious." 1... | |
 | Frank Greene Bates - History - 1898 - 236 pages
...conjunction with the delegates of the other colonies, " to enter into and adopt all such measures; taking the greatest care to secure to this colony,...the strongest and most perfect manner, its present estab/ lished form, and all the powers of government, so far as ; relate to its internal police and... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - Presidents - 1901 - 556 pages
...independence and a confederation usually had a limitation like this, in the case of Rhode Island : "Taking the greatest care to secure to this colony,...established form, and all the powers of government, in so far as it relates to its internal police and the conduct of its own affairs, civil and religious."... | |
 | Social sciences - 1899 - 528 pages
...conjunction with the delegates of the other colonies, " to enter into and adopt all such measures ; taking the greatest care to secure to this colony,...the strongest and most perfect manner, its present estab1 Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly (MS.), 17 76, Pi. /, May 4, 1776. lished form, and... | |
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... at the same time, they were charged " to secure to the colony, in the strongest and most perfect manner, its present established form and all powers of government, so far as they relate to its internal police, and the conduct of its own affairs, civil... 
