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2189. DEPORTATION ACT, Denounced.—[continued].

They [Parliament] have
declared that American subjects, charged
with certain offences, shall be transported beyond
sea to be tried before the very persons
against whose pretended sovereignty the offence
is supposed to be committed.—
Declaration on Taking up Arms. Ford ed., i, 468.
(July. 1775)