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rected to obey the king's instructions. They insisted that such instructions, though a rule of conduct to his governor, were not the measure of obedience to the people; that the rule of obedience was positive law; that a command to grant chap. VII.} 1754. money was neither constitutional nor legal; being inconsistent with the freedom of debate and the rights of the assembly, whose power to prepare and pass the bills granting money, was admitted by the crown. See the case prepared by Mr. Charles, the New York agent, in Smith's New York, II. 195. It was under these influences that the Assembly of New York, in a loyal address to the king, had justified their conduct. The Newcastle administration trimmed between the contending parties. It did not adopt effective measures to enforce its orders; while it yet applauded the conduct of the Board of Trade, Representation of the Board of Trade, 4 April, 1754, in N. Y. London Documents, XXXI. 39. and summarily condemned the colony by r