Declaration of Independence By the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
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LDTIII* BRADISH.
commission li:ul hceii issued hy tlie Council. A certifi- cate, over the official signature of the clerk of the Council, verified the change Avhicli had been made in the language of the instrument ; and continued its authority, in the name of " The Government and People of the Massachu- setts Bay in New England," which, after the nineteenth of September succeeding, it would not otherwise have possessed, notwithstanding the impression of the authority of George III, was borne on... the face of the instrument.* I may have attributed a greater degree of importance to these instruments than they really merit, yet I cannot forbear suggesting to the Society that therein we have a formal renunciation of the authority of the king, within the territorial limits of Massachusetts, and as formal an assumption of the prerogatives of sovereignty, by "The Government and People of the Massachusetts Bay in New England," on the first day of May, 1776, — two months and two days before the adoption of the resolution of independence, by the United Colonies, in Congress as- sembled ; and that, as Massachusetts was, thenceforth, de facto, an independent and sovereign State, the delegation which she had sent to the Congress of the Confederation, needed no special authority to reiterate, in her name, the Act of Independence and assumption of sovereignty, which, through her legally constituted government, she had, already and directly, adopted and promulgated.
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LDTIII* BRADISH.
commission li:ul hceii issued hy tlie Council. A certifi- cate, over the official signature of the clerk of the Council, verified the change Avhicli had been made in the language of the instrument ; and continued its authority, in the name of " The Government and People of the Massachu- setts Bay in New England," which, after the nineteenth of September succeeding, it would not otherwise have possessed, notwithstanding the impression of the authority of George III, was borne on... the face of the instrument.* I may have attributed a greater degree of importance to these instruments than they really merit, yet I cannot forbear suggesting to the Society that therein we have a formal renunciation of the authority of the king, within the territorial limits of Massachusetts, and as formal an assumption of the prerogatives of sovereignty, by "The Government and People of the Massachusetts Bay in New England," on the first day of May, 1776, — two months and two days before the adoption of the resolution of independence, by the United Colonies, in Congress as- sembled ; and that, as Massachusetts was, thenceforth, de facto, an independent and sovereign State, the delegation which she had sent to the Congress of the Confederation, needed no special authority to reiterate, in her name, the Act of Independence and assumption of sovereignty, which, through her legally constituted government, she had, already and directly, adopted and promulgated.
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