province? Provincial laws may grant to certain individuals of the province the enjoyment of gainful, or an immunity from onerous offices; they may operate upon the people to whom they relate; but no province can confer provincial privileges on itſelf. They may have a right to all which the King has given them; but it is a conceit of the other hemiſphere, that men have a right to all which they have given to themſelves.
A corporation is conſidered in law as an individual, and can no more extend its own immunities, than a man can by his own choice aſſume dignities or titles.
The Legiſlature of a Colony, let not the compariſon be too much diſdained, is only the veſtry of a larger pariſh, which may lay a ceſs on the inhabitants, and enforce the payment; but can extend no influence beyond its own diſtrict, muſt mo-