of any
Keird.
When Blackmore and his
associates were ordered
by
the king in council to be "detained, until further
evidence could be obtained against them, - an event
which never occurred, so
that they passed all the
rest of their lives in
the last survivor
in prison,
dying
there more than thirty years afterwards!) it was found necessary to pass an act of Parliament
for
the
purpose. The jealousy of Parliament imposed
in the
251
first instance some limitation
as to time, and,
at
every
renewal or continuation,
the same limitation was
observed. I have an entire
copy of the Act in
one edition
(the only complete
one in the colony) of the acts
passed down to the
accession
of George I. This act was passed under William III and
was renewed down
regularly to the middle of the reign
of George
III. It may furnish
a good constitutional precedent, not only for the detention of al Blum, but also for that